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Originally Posted by Dave 90TT
My uncle has a country place that no one knows about. He said it used to be a farm before the Motor law. And on Sundays I elude the eyes and hop the Turbine Freight to far outside the Wire where my white-haired uncle waits.
Keep the country place. Someday you could be the white haired uncle.
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I'm definitely going to be that uncle, but probably not the alleged Ferrari 166 but maybe an e89 Z4. Too bad there aren't many one lane bridges left in my neck of the woods.
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Originally Posted by vreihen16
Add those three hours of driving onto your work day, and figure out what your effective hourly pay rate is counting those commutes as work time.
Many people in my neck of the woods use this formula to decide if 30% higher pay is worth 3+ hours of commuting to/from NYC every day, if it would pay off to live closer with more expensive housing costs, etc.....
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I don't know what the acceptable hourly rate of sitting in a car in traffic listening to NPR is but I did the calculation and it's not enough. Excellent suggestion though.
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Originally Posted by Bonk!
I had a somewhat similar situation. Had a house way out in the 'burbs and bought a condo downtown Boston. Used the condo mid-week and the house on the weekends until we got tired of the transition. Actually sold both and bought a new place just outside the city. Not sure if this helps - but I'm +1 for not having two places.
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When rent was $900/mo it made more sense but it's been creeping into four digits the last few years. In one respect I'm a bit lucky as a good friend of mine essentially just did the same thing. Another issue I forgot about was when I was commuting I was putting about 30k a year on my vehicle. So leasing was out of the question, I was pretty much buying a new car every five years.