yeah, there is a pervading sense that things could get pretty bad pretty quickly. I don't think the UK is a good place to be when that happens. So I do wonder about moving to either home/WestOz or NZ sooner rather than later... currently the plan is circa 2030, but that feels like a long time away right now, in present global circumstances. (No guarantee either are good places to be, but they do seem a lot likely to be less bad than UK.)
The owning property/house thing never appealed to me. But 15 years ago there is whole different choice I could have made, a path where by now I would almost certainly own my own home & without debt/mortgage. I "feel" the opportunity cost of the decisions I made that led away from that path with a sense of loss despite it definitely not being a road I wanted to go down. It is a psychological puzzle!
Right now I feel I stand at other crossroads, but in the fog, and it is more like the Magic Roundabout than a simple crossroad.
Yvan
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