RE: Is a nomadic lifestyle the future?
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Even though you’ll likely have to pay more in rent than a mortgage, at least with rent you won’t lose a massive portion of your wealth if things go badly.
You're going to need to explain your maths to me (very slowly and carefully because I'm stupid and dyscalculiac) because I can't make this one make sense ^_^;
As per your last point there's a lot to be said for communities. Sometimes it feels like there's reasons governments and corporations are so desperate to keep everyone fragmented and divided.
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OMG... I am also terrible at maths... this might be a disaster.
Okay, here goes...
Say you're renting a house, it's leased for a year and it costs $2000 a month. That's $24,000 a year. You have all your stuff and you have renters insurance.
Your next door neighbour bought their house for $240,000 and have $180,000 left on the mortgage, they also have all the insurances.
A flood hits and both houses are now rotting, moldy and unlivable... and the insurance companies won't/can't pay for whatever reason (which has happened in both California and Asheville North Carolina).
You can't live in your rented house, but you're still obligated to pay out your lease. It's rough, but you basically lose $24,000 for the year.
Your neighbour is still obligated to pay off their mortgage even though they can't live in their house... so they're out $180,000. We've seen in Asheville that absolute jackals descend on the area offering to buy people's properties for dirt cheap, so maybe your neighbours sell their property for $40,000.... so now they're only down $140,000 (I'm ignoring mortgage interest here, so it would probably be a lot more).
So $24,000 is less than $140,000.
Obviously there are all sorts of legalities and rights and all sorts of stuff I'm not really taking into account here.. the variables are huge... but for-profit insurance companies will do whatever they can, even if its illegal, to get out of giving money to their customers.
P.S) I had no idea dyscalculiac was a thing... but I hope this helps.
LoL! Thanks I think I get it XD
actually I'm in that weird area where I think I get it but also I don't but that's okay it's just me being glitchy
I didn't know dyscalculia was a thing til about 5-10 years ago or so either when one of my online friends mentioned having it and I looked it up and was like does this mean that I'm not actually completely dumb?! XD
You're definitely not! You're one of the nicest, most empathetic, creative and clued-in online peeps I've ever met. Could a completely dumb person draw so much hair and scales and feathers? I don't think so.
Aww thanks 😅
It was very hard not to feel dumb at school when I struggled so much with maths and really struggled with the apparently way stuff that everyone else could process and numbers that I swear changed in appearance between readings assuming I could make any sense of them to begin with and got told it was because I wasn’t reading carefully or working carefully enough and I really tried 😭
I truly hope kids have it a little bit easier now that educators seem to understand a little bit more about how different brains work and process information differently. I'm sure it's still a challenge, but hopefully people don't think someone is bad at math or reading because they're not paying enough attention.
I have a minute sample of good educators to work from (so small that "statistically insignificant" probably doesn't even start to cover it XD) that do understand this and will try to find out if there's underlying issues before concluding that the kid is just being lazy/careless (most of the time there's an underlying issue but some kids are just lazy/careless/can't see how school is relevant to their interests and don't have the life experience to realise that at least some of the stuff might be useful at some point and thus quite simply do not care).