Finding housing that works for you is now as complex as founding a startup. Lifestyle-resources fit. Own or rent, exit = you can last there ~5+ years and come out with net increase in net worth or something.
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21 failures to exit in 22 years, and counting. Iām either one of the worldās worst household founders, or one of the worldās best nomads. I donāt expect #22 to last more than 2 years before āfailingā in some way.
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Trawling Glendale and Hollywood neighborhoods for likely places all morning. Depressing af. I can tell at a glance most options wonāt work >2y. Yet Iāll end up in one of these. Feature of my life in 2000 is big in 2020.
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Hunt for 22nd apartment in 23 years begins now. 8 cities, 7 states, small biz moved states 3 times.
Not my fault. Iād stay put if I had the mansion which is rightfully mine. It has been denied me by the Hufflepuffs.
How come nobody realizes the Hufflepuffs are the villains? 
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Thereās really no place on earth I truly want to live at a sub-mansion scale. It all sucks. #Mansions4All
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Itās really weird how people havenāt appreciated the parallels between employment precarity and the rise of gig working on the one hand and housing precarity and the rise of āgig livingā where every housing situation has the transient feel of a gig.
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Being a landlord is one of my top 5 business-ideas-from-hell. People actually aspire to this smh.
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Have you thought of the landlord angle, where you buy a duplex and pay the mortgage with the rental income?
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Have you thought of the landlord angle, where you buy a duplex and pay the mortgage with the rental income?
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Iām in a complexity = 3^3 situation š Venice and Santa Monica have acceptable social milieu and material comfort
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We did successfully solve this with a group house of 8 people. It took a year of meeting on nights and weekends, in which we generated >200 pages of documents on shared vision and alignment, mission, trade offs, economic forecasts, and legal contracts. 1k-10k hours was our est.
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I wrote a program to poll rightmove.co.uk within a subset of London area for houses that satisfied our criteria.
Most restrictive criterion was having a garage, to make life better for our motorcycles. Garages are a lot more rare these days in London.
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Add kids to the equation and wanting to avoid being 12hr time difference from family & friends and it gets crazy. I'm at a stage where I can't even find a city where I'd be OK with the compromise.
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