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yeah I did it for the first time 3 years ago. I had a cannonball in my gut about everything for about 60 days and at least had a friend who had gone through it I could ask all my stupid questions to.
but I will say, once you are in one, so long as you had enough cash and decent enough credit to get a non predatory loan, it's nice not living at the whims of a landlord. and you can fix shit correctly or make it how you want it. which all costs more money, but when you get something fixed the right way or make a change to suit what you want, it fucking rules every time you see it/use it.
it's one of those things that is better over time as you live in the house and cumulatively make your little changes and fixes and have more of it paid-off.
which I guess ends in an ecstatic crescendo when it's paid off and you're just paying taxes and insurance and using that discretionary income on like gold trim and leather couches and chandeliers or whatever.
I really liked my old house in CA, especially because it had full grown and abundant fruit trees, but even while going out of my way to avoid being in some HOA
shit, the 
showed up anyway to passive-aggressively volunteer as lawn perfection judges, juries, and even executioners of my pollinating plants, native plants, and edible garden plants by destroying the entire front with one of their glorified mobility scooter mowers while I was out.
I eventually sold it when I moved across the country, but I was fortunate enough to get more for it than I paid for it because of the Silicon Valley-adjacent bazinga bubble continuing to expand.
Wait what they mowed down your plants without your consent in your yard? As a european, what the fuck kinda made up country is that???
I don't know which of my
neighbors in particular did it while I was at work, but they were something of an aging Good Old Boys network and just smirked at me, one and all, for weeks afterward.
There really wasn't much I could do.
That’s absolutely insane, my country sure as hell isn’t perfect, but I can’t ever imagine something like that happening here and it not making semi-national news
my disproportionate response may have made the news.
Area Man Blinds Several Neighbors, Manhunt Underway
You say disproportionate but that seems entirely reasonable to me (im drunk)
Yes there was
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