As I vaguely mentioned before I am pretty overloaded recently.

I had spent from age 24 to 33 working hard and saving living in so cal so I could move back to Oregon and buy my forever home.

Then I met my wife, and all of that 100% was thrown out. Or rather I told her that my short term goal was to either work remotely or quit my job and move back to portland. Which that all worked and is what happened. We then also got married while living in pdx.

Rented there I think for 1.5 years. Then started looking for houses. Loads and loads is super cool old houses in super cool neighborhoods. Then she expressed she hated portland.

So we started looking on the coast. Eventually found something, bought it, moved, lived there for 6mo and she expressed she hated it. Lived there for 2 years total and sold.

Then found what to me was our forever home. In the woods-ish, still 10m from town, etc. We decided to try to have a baby. A year of infertility and it happened. Then she expressed she hated living there.

So during covid she bought us a house in Gilbert AZ. I didn't even see it and we had to maintain a tax residence in OR so by selling our forever home we basically got a shitty suburb house in AZ and a super fixer-upper in Astoria.

A year goes by and she expresses that the house situation isn't working. So we sell both houses and buy this house. Throwing away in the process a long term investment.

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