ksanders
Moderator Emeritus
This thread is for the younger members... The ones with time to follow it if they choose. Here's some advice from a old man. One with lots of time under his keel.
We all have choices in life, where we live where we work, what we do with our free time thousands of choices, and decisions to be made about our lives.
Well 19 years ago my wife and I made a choice. It was a hard one, that had plenty of ramifications for our future. Time has proven that this one choice we made, was probably one of the best choices we made over an entire lifetime of choices.
19 years ago my wife and I bought our home. We were a fairly young couple back then with a small child. Pretty typical we think. We looked at homes in town. Nice homes, in subdivisions where our son could play. In areas that would be a easy drive to our jobs.
We also looked out of town. Two hours back then from town. We looked at and bought a house on a lake. The house was nothing special back then. Actually because we had a very modest budget it was a 1970's fixer upper. Lakefront homes have always commanded a premium, and we could have bought a very nice home in town for what we paid for our funky old house.
What the house offered was a west facing lake frontage. 175' of nice sloping frontage and an acre and a half of mostly woods. It has sound bones, but again it was nothing special.
Well, fast forward 19 years later, and we realize we've spent a lifetime looking out over the lake. The ducks raise their young in front of our house. We can hear the Loons and the Sandhill cranes. Last night we saw a creature swimming. Was it a muskrat, or a young beaver? Possibly the river otter was teaching her young how to forage?
So, my advice for the young people is to make the sacrifice. Do whatever it takes to live on the water somewhere.
This I promise you. It will be a decision you will not regret. You too will probably look back decades later and realize that it was one of the best decisions of your lifetime.
We all have choices in life, where we live where we work, what we do with our free time thousands of choices, and decisions to be made about our lives.
Well 19 years ago my wife and I made a choice. It was a hard one, that had plenty of ramifications for our future. Time has proven that this one choice we made, was probably one of the best choices we made over an entire lifetime of choices.
19 years ago my wife and I bought our home. We were a fairly young couple back then with a small child. Pretty typical we think. We looked at homes in town. Nice homes, in subdivisions where our son could play. In areas that would be a easy drive to our jobs.
We also looked out of town. Two hours back then from town. We looked at and bought a house on a lake. The house was nothing special back then. Actually because we had a very modest budget it was a 1970's fixer upper. Lakefront homes have always commanded a premium, and we could have bought a very nice home in town for what we paid for our funky old house.
What the house offered was a west facing lake frontage. 175' of nice sloping frontage and an acre and a half of mostly woods. It has sound bones, but again it was nothing special.
Well, fast forward 19 years later, and we realize we've spent a lifetime looking out over the lake. The ducks raise their young in front of our house. We can hear the Loons and the Sandhill cranes. Last night we saw a creature swimming. Was it a muskrat, or a young beaver? Possibly the river otter was teaching her young how to forage?
So, my advice for the young people is to make the sacrifice. Do whatever it takes to live on the water somewhere.
This I promise you. It will be a decision you will not regret. You too will probably look back decades later and realize that it was one of the best decisions of your lifetime.