Comment by wheresmyusern

i have been looking into buying land and building a house on it -- ive been reading and researching intensely for a while now and i am simply astonished at how affordable it is to have your own land and a house, all while being well within commuting distance of the city. the thing about owning land is that instead of paying for your landlords luxury car and his wifes boob implants, you only have to pay property tax. if you make other simple efforts to reduce your expenses, you can bring your total operating costs down to insanely low levels without sacrificing any quality of life. i feel like this is some kind of conspiracy -- i have no idea why people seem to be oblivious to the wonders of cost reduction. it takes monumental effort to increase your income but its pretty much trivial to reduce your expenses which accomplishes the exact same outcome. rent is currently 80% of my expenses and there is nothing i can do to change that, except buy land. even if i lived in a super crummy part of town (i dont want to do that) it would still cost a fortune compared to property tax for land and a modest house (modest but still a thousand times better than most apartments).