[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by 68style

Admittedly I don't have a kid, but I had to come to terms with my realistic future and what scratching and clawing might do to me mentally as well as my relationship with my GF... that's why I'm headed to Alberta yo... it might not be the right move for a lot of very understandable reasons, it's away from both our aging parents as well as my niece and nephew, but financially it makes every sense in the world and hopefully freedom from anything resembling that stress translates into a blossoming of other things in our relationship growth and the time to explore other paths and hobbies in life.

We talked about it in length and neither of us actually wants to move there, but we wanted a house and we decided if we had to do it here, sink al our savings and be up to our eyeballs in mortgage, that it would surely result in a lot of fighting, people being forced to do stuff they don't want to do, not be able to do any extra stuff together we enjoy and possibly the dissolution of our relationship as a fallout from all that noise. Giving up the scenery around us hardly seems like a thing at all compared to that.

I would highly suggest for the sake of your future exploring other areas of the lower mainland. People can always come visit you, or you can drive an extra 20 minutes... getting a place for $400K cheaper in the region at $1.4-ish is nothing to sneeze at, it's easy to get lost in the numbers here with the massive pricetags on everything, but that's almost half a mill better off... half a mill!! Do you pay that much just to stay where you like? I'd hate to see you stuck with your ass puckered every day wondering if something is going to go wrong and cost you in a way you can't afford, financially and otherwise.

Thing is, people don’t come see you, family doesn’t come by lol.