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[gunny]

Hello everyone, time for a little journaling.
Moved out of my condo yesterday into a much smaller structure that can best be described as a bungalow. The rent is much more reasonable, about half of what I was paying for my old place.

In june of 2011, my w and I finally sold our one bedroom condo that we had lived in for 13 years. I had bought it in 1998 right before we met, and using the equity from it I was able to purchase outright a cabin in the Pennsy woods, plus buy back my active duty time with the Marines (most gov pension systems allow you to do that, and I am a county employee). I bought it at the bottom of the market and had enough equity left over at the sale that I was able to realize a small profit. After all the years that she wanted to move into a bigger place, we finally moved into a two bedroom place in June of 2011. It was two weeks later that she dropped the bomb.

So, now she is living in Ohio, renting a house next to her sister, and seemingly very happy. I, on the other hand, have been forced to downsize to a bungalow, which reminds me of 30 years ago, when I was a struggling graduate student living in cramped quarters in a not so nice part of town. Even though everyone who visits the place say it is "charming" I cant help being a little angry in that it seems I have gotten the worse end of the deal.

Oh well, guess weve all been there, just ranting.

On a happier note, got a nice birthday card from w yesterday. Unexpected but nice.
Hope you all are doing well, am continuing to follow your sitchs with great interest!