The wife and I have been house shopping for about three, maybe four, years now. It's not been fun. The options in our price range are either really nice houses in not so nice neighborhoods or not so nice houses in really nice neighborhoods. I'm more worried about the quality of the house, she's more worried about the quality of the nieghborhood. We disagree, a lot. No worries though, cause the longer we take, the more we save up.

Anyhow, I get a text from her this morning with a house she saw for about $40k. It has a few things going for it. Nice price. Nice neighborhood. Small yard. Small house actually. Price just dropped from $80k. Yadda. Yadda. It also has a lot of things NOT going for it. Mainly, it looks like a giant, cancer ridden ball of asbestos with God only knows what kind of ancient lighting and plumbing. Seriously, the place looks so rough, I don't even think it's fit to be turned into a meth lab. I don't know what she's thinking.

Also, know what pisses me off more than anything when talking to people about buying houses? When they say "Oh, I don't know why you're looking at houses in that price range. You could easily afford something that costs twice as much." No, fucker. No we can't. If we put all of our money into a house, then we're not saving anything for retirement, and that's just stupid. Fuck off.