Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Age: 36 Gender: Male Posts: 16,181 Location: US
10 Feb 2018, 4:30 pm
I’d win the lottery. Rent a small house, buy a car, truck and guns. I’d probably move to Indiana so I can have a pet fox. Maybe meet a lady online who’d put up with me in exchange for being provided for, if not I’d just live alone with my fox and travel to shooting classes.
So I buy a ticket when it’s gets ver 10 million.
If you mean something that will likely happen, I have nothing given how hopeless my situation is. I use to but it’s been made clear to me even my minimalistic ideas are impossible.
Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Age: 36 Gender: Male Posts: 16,181 Location: US
10 Feb 2018, 4:39 pm
kraftiekortie wrote:
Why would you rent a house----if you can buy it?
You get monthly payments for 30 years. Likely not enough to buy a house. Plus then I could move if desired to escape people. Probably have the house rented via companies.
I dont know if I’d actually move to Indiana though I’d miss the coast, here I could rent a house and a beach house. I don’t want to live on the beach but I’d like to visit. Maybe I’d spend weekends there. Say I won 7 million a year. That’s only 500, a month half goes into savings, then I give my family and acquaintances 5,000; month each. And I’d want to help fund some houses for homeless. It’s be more sense to rent since no one would give loans to buy the houses, I would be able to buy a car and truck out right though.
Joined: 4 Feb 2014 Gender: Male Posts: 87,510 Location: Queens, NYC
10 Feb 2018, 4:59 pm
You can buy the house outright. All you have to do is pay the real estate taxes.
A "mortgage" is based upon the inability (of most people) to pay the complete cost of a house (usually over $100,000). So, instead, they "pay it off" monthly, with interest added.
Buying a house "outright" saves you from having to pay the interest.
If somebody "buys" a $100,000 house on a 30-year mortgage, that person probably will pay more than $300,000, in those 30 years.
Save up for a wooded property with a few acres (5-15) in northern Michigan (lower or UP, I could be persuaded either way). Build or, more likely, renovate a house, including a library, study, game room, & convert a garage or barn into a chapel. While I won't likely be able to completely retire (due to need in the field), I'll have my quasi-eremitic seclusion.
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Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Age: 36 Gender: Male Posts: 16,181 Location: US
10 Feb 2018, 9:05 pm
kraftiekortie wrote:
You can buy the house outright. All you have to do is pay the real estate taxes.
A "mortgage" is based upon the inability (of most people) to pay the complete cost of a house (usually over $100,000). So, instead, they "pay it off" monthly, with interest added.
Buying a house "outright" saves you from having to pay the interest.
If somebody "buys" a $100,000 house on a 30-year mortgage, that person probably will pay more than $300,000, in those 30 years.
I meant I wouldn’t be able to afford to buy a house out right unless I won one of those 500 million lotteries. You’d have to save as the payments are monthly.
Joined: 3 Jan 2018 Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 176 Location: UK
10 Feb 2018, 9:45 pm
Group of close friends, go out out on the weekends with them, a job, live alone, go travelling with said friends, love my life, be happy. That's what I want right now anyway, I don't want to live alone forever.
I made it my new year's resolution to obtain this but so far, haven't managed to take any sort of step yet.
Joined: 28 Nov 2016 Age: 46 Gender: Male Posts: 3,465 Location: Sagittarius A
10 Feb 2018, 9:54 pm
DancingQueen wrote:
Group of close friends, go out out on the weekends with them, a job, live alone, go travelling with said friends, love my life, be happy. That's what I want right now anyway, I don't want to live alone forever.
I made it my new year's resolution to obtain this but so far, haven't managed to take any sort of step yet.
I present to you, your ideal theme song.
Since you lacked enough dancing in your ideal life.
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Joined: 3 Jan 2018 Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 176 Location: UK
10 Feb 2018, 11:06 pm
blackicmenace wrote:
DancingQueen wrote:
Group of close friends, go out out on the weekends with them, a job, live alone, go travelling with said friends, love my life, be happy. That's what I want right now anyway, I don't want to live alone forever.
I made it my new year's resolution to obtain this but so far, haven't managed to take any sort of step yet.
I present to you, your ideal theme song.
Since you lacked enough dancing in your ideal life.
Oh there is plenty of dancing in my ideal life thank you!
Joined: 11 Nov 2010 Age: 37 Gender: Male Posts: 2,614 Location: florida
11 Feb 2018, 12:36 am
-being retired, and in good health. -teaching/preserving wing chun and tai chi chuan for free. -living in a cabin with its own study, library, dojo, archery range, and horse stables. -having a beloved’s hand to hold throughout grand adventures.
Hmm, I'm trying to keep my future very flexible. I find even the best-laid plans tend to change for me.
- Perform live music - Be working a comfortable job I actually enjoy, regardless of what that is - Build up a collection of books again - Feel confident about myself and my life - Raise some type of companion animal, probably birds of some kind - Become skilled enough in one of my hobbies to teach
Joined: 30 Jul 2013 Age: 36 Gender: Male Posts: 10,970 Location: Adelaide, Australia
13 Feb 2018, 7:20 am
My ideal life would be to buy a unit in a high rise condo in the inner city where all the shops and restaurants (and girls) are. The suburbs are boring me and I want a nice view. Preferably from a unit in one of the upper floors. Besides most of the girls I date either live in the city, work in the city and/or go to university in the city so it would greatly improve my dating life.
If I keep saving at the current rate for 3 or 4 years I should be able to make the down-payment on a unit in the city. I aim to get a newly built one, something in the modern style.
- Have a cabin in nature I can go to and get away from everything, that I can also use as an art studio. - Have a little apartment with my boyfriend. - Have a similar style job to the one I have now, but where I'm treated better. - Or preferably to have a more creative job or to work on more creative projects, like make a stage show or TV show. - Have a nice balance between having some friends I see occasionally and time for myself and my interests
I plan on getting my English degree, but I know I'm going to spend the rest of my life sweeping floors and scrubbing toilets.
I excel at creative jobs, but getting into those jobs require social connections I'm incapable of making.
Meh. Think I'll go get drunk now.
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Joined: 11 Jan 2013 Gender: Female Posts: 9,993 Location: New Zealand
17 Feb 2018, 7:45 pm
Some would see my life as near to an ideal for an AS person. I live in a beautiful place in a beautiful city in a beautiful country, I am retired from the rat race of working life, I have enough financial security to last for the rest of my life, and I have a great family of mainly AS children and grandchildren whom I love very much, and ready access to the natural world which I also love very much.
However. I cannot say it is ideal as long as the barriers created by NTs who are the gatekeepers in the society I live in, and XFG for example lives in, remain. The prejudice that keeps the gatekeeping in place means I live in a culture (as AS people everywhere do) which practices exclusion on many levels. No AS life can ever be ideal in a culture of prejudice.