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A little background.....
I live 45 miles from work. lived and worked in the same places for 8 years. good job, i intend to stay there.
the commute has gotten worse over the years. started at 2 hours a day, now have risen to at least 3 and often 4 hours. it’s affecting my work and home life.
we love our existing home (despite having only a smallish garage for slot car space) and it is close to friends, and has a wonderful mortgage (4.375%) that will be paid off well before we are ready to retire (11 years).
we could sell and move very close to where i work, but the home prices more than double, and even for that amount we get less of a home, and probably be forced into a new 30 year note.
another option is a 2 bedroom older home that is inexpensive (relatively speaking) and located just blocks away from a major transit hub (buses and trains, my work location is also right next to a similar transit hub, so buses really would work). in off peak hours (my schedule is flexible) it’s a 30 minute trip each way. the older house is about halfway between work and our existing home, in an ok area.
the older house would give me a place to crash during the work week, and we would keep the home we love for the weekends (fri, sat, and sun nights), and would have one of the homes paid off in the foreseeable future.
now for the slot car part. the older house has a full basement and 2 garages! one garage is 10x25, one is 24x24, and the basement has a heated finished room (if you can call fake wood paneling a finish) that is about 10x20. i could put up every single bit of track i have (HO and 1/43), have pit area to host races, and have room to add a nice routed track, with plenty of elbow room.
the track manager thinks im a bit nuts. whatta you think?
I live 45 miles from work. lived and worked in the same places for 8 years. good job, i intend to stay there.
the commute has gotten worse over the years. started at 2 hours a day, now have risen to at least 3 and often 4 hours. it’s affecting my work and home life.
we love our existing home (despite having only a smallish garage for slot car space) and it is close to friends, and has a wonderful mortgage (4.375%) that will be paid off well before we are ready to retire (11 years).
we could sell and move very close to where i work, but the home prices more than double, and even for that amount we get less of a home, and probably be forced into a new 30 year note.
another option is a 2 bedroom older home that is inexpensive (relatively speaking) and located just blocks away from a major transit hub (buses and trains, my work location is also right next to a similar transit hub, so buses really would work). in off peak hours (my schedule is flexible) it’s a 30 minute trip each way. the older house is about halfway between work and our existing home, in an ok area.
the older house would give me a place to crash during the work week, and we would keep the home we love for the weekends (fri, sat, and sun nights), and would have one of the homes paid off in the foreseeable future.
now for the slot car part. the older house has a full basement and 2 garages! one garage is 10x25, one is 24x24, and the basement has a heated finished room (if you can call fake wood paneling a finish) that is about 10x20. i could put up every single bit of track i have (HO and 1/43), have pit area to host races, and have room to add a nice routed track, with plenty of elbow room.
the track manager thinks im a bit nuts. whatta you think?