What was the counterfactual to the \"buy a house in Portland in an ideal neighborhood\" outcome you're living rn? Fuck around in LA for a few more years and buy less house somewhere in CA/back east?
There were several other properties across Portland I was considering
Including ones in locations that were hot then, or in the previous decade when I established my sense of the town and would have made sense to rent in but by now have fallen behind the “time to polish this for soulless yuppies” frontier
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