davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2023

[davidd]

I knew someone else who regretted leaving a place. Having a similar ex-perience and ending up feeling like you made a mistake would be awful.  

Well, yes; leaving a place you liked a lot would be awful. Regretting it and not being able to move back would be, and is, awful.

That said, if you move to someplace you don't like, as long as you are prudent, and have a bit of luck, it is certainly not impossible to leave that place and try somewhere else.

Additionally... yesterday, somebody across the street and down the block who play in an amateur band was practicing. Loud. But not nearly as loud as the guy who lived right next door in the attached house that shared an inside wall when I lived in Hawaii. And at least the guy across the street yesterday was competent, if not great, and played entire songs all the way through. The neighbor in Hawaii would practice one chord set or "lick" over and over for hours!

And fussing about with the little issues here is reminding me, if I think about it, how badly the Hawaii house was deteriorating, and how I did not have the money to repair it: termite damage, a failing septic tank, a sagging foundation... and then there were the increasing property taxes and the insurance. 

I know more now. There are things I could have done to ameliorate the mounting ekspenses. But I do not know if I could have managed to stay there permanently, or simply to have postponed the inevitable necessity of moving.

It's easy to look back and only remember the good things. There were some serious problems with living there as well, mostly related to a cost of living that far outstripped wages.

Hawaii is one of the few states that continues to lose population every year. Only the wealthy or those who inherit property and money can afford to stay there. And military, the overpaid military and their civilian contractors.

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19 January - A Doll A Day 2023:

19 January - Trivia and Jane Replace A Water Heater Thermostat

Of course, as it turns out, the thermostat was not the issue. Nor is the problem with
the heating element. Oh, no, it couldn't possibly be the most common, and relatively
easy problem to remedy.