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10th July 2022

Question reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 2 notes

Anonymous asked:

What was the counterfactual to the "buy a house in Portland in an ideal neighborhood" outcome you're living rn? Fuck around in LA for a few more years and buy less house somewhere in CA/back east?

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

There were several other properties across Portland I was considering

Including ones in locations that were hot then, or in the previous decade when I established my sense of the town and would have made sense to rent in but by now have fallen behind the “time to polish this for soulless yuppies” frontier

Like it’s not “oh I used inherited wealth to buy a home in the mid-2010s, aren’t I being rewarded for my cleverness?”, even within that frame there are a wide variety of ways I could have gone and I went the exact correct one

  1. kontextmaschine reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    Like it's not "oh I used inherited wealth to buy a home in the mid-2010s, aren't I being rewarded for my cleverness?",...