Reply #15: I live out in the country, [View All]

[MadHound]

And while my mortgage is higher, that is more due to having twenty acres and a house twice the size of the one I had in the city.

Yes, I spend a bit more in gas for travel, though not that much more because I'm riding a Bajaj scooter, which gets 100 mpg.

I also save on food costs by gardening, something I couldn't do in the city. Same with heating costs, since I'm installing a woodstove, something I couldn't do in the city. Here in a few years, I'll realize even further savings by putting in solar panels and/or a wind turbine, neither of which I could do in the city. All in all, I imagine that my costs for living out here in the country, which I do indeed consider a nicer neighborhood that where I previously lived, will be much less than what I spent living in the city.