Thursday night = anime. Uh, friday...also anime. And, hey, what's the weekend for!

[corneredangel]

It's like, sometimes, I really don't get how the world - or anyways, *this particular part of the world*, works. Easy example, what's all this obsession with how much a home is valued at? When you're buying a home, you're buying *a place to live in*; so what if down the line, it's worth more or less than you paid for it. Either you can afford the

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[grysar]

On the first point, it may have something to do with the way thirty year mortgages and the interest deduction strongly incentive home ownership from a financial perspective. There's other dynamics at work too, but my instinct is that's the biggest.

[corneredangel]

Greg, still not sure I understand. Like, once I buy a place, how much do I care what it's supposedly worth? I didn't buy it to sell, I bought it to live in. Unless "property values" are just proxies for neighborhood quality, etc.