TZUTC: -0500
MSGID: 494.canada@1:2320/105 292a3a75
REPLY: 1:229/426 6A07B2BA
PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Linux master/cb76b1463 Feb 20 2022 GCC 7.5.0
TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Linux master/cb76b1463 Feb 20 2022 GCC 7.5.0
BBSID: CAPCITY2
CHRS: ASCII 1
RM> Housing is ridiculously expensive, I'll give young people that, but I remem
RM> working 3 jobs and driving a 14 year old car for years to afford my first
RM> tiny house that needed a lot of work, which I had to learn to do myself

NA>I'm the same way. Not a homeowner but I've been working my ass off in what
  >amounts to be three jobs for the past... 17 years or so now.

NA>Despite the tribulation of being a single parent my teenage daughter
  >thankfully works and doesn't expect handouts, appreciates what she has.

Wow..  Respect.. Sounds like your daughter has been brought up well and
deserves some credit there herself.

I managed to (was forced to?) avoid the parenting thing and that's an
expensive thing and very difficult for a single parent to do on their own.

After a few disasterous relationships I didn't get serious with anyone after
about age 29. I wasn't avoiding it so much as being overly cautious based on
past experience.

Very long story short, financial plans to retire at about age 55 were
interrupted when I was 32 and taking a winter off work turned into me
working short hours for myself from then on while living in a primitive,
small cottage on the shores of Georgian Bay.

Friends point me out as so unique as to be some sort of tourist attraction but
I don't really regret choosing a path 'less travelled by', although I suppose
I will end up more alone than someone with a family. But, as the song goes,
'every form or refuge has its price'..

(Quotes thanks to Robert Frost and The Eagles..)
---
 * SLMR Rob  * The cake jumps out of a bulimic stripper
 * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105)
SEEN-BY: 15/0 105/81 106/201 116/17 18 129/305 153/7715 226/30 227/114
SEEN-BY: 229/110 112 113 275 307 317 426 428 470 664 700 282/1038
SEEN-BY: 291/111 292/854 317/3 320/219 322/757 396/45 460/58 712/848
SEEN-BY: 2320/0 105 401 5020/400 5075/35
PATH: 2320/105 229/426