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100% agree with Vanusa.

FWIW, the initial boost of happiness derived from living in nice accomodations is shortlived, after a few weeks or a month you'll likely feel about the same as before you got the nicer digs.

Once I experienced and internalized this lesson, I was able to stop caring much about my house (just keep it clean and as comfy as possible) and instead focus on the amazing people in my life who genuinely care about connecting with me regardless of fancy house circumstance. In this way it's actually a highly effective filter facilitating minimization of superficial relationships.

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Having moved from a complete rathole apartment to a rental house recently I've come to realize, dammit this is wayyy more work to maintain and clean! This freaking sucks!! I want to go back to a tiny apartment where I didn't have to spend Saturdays cleaning the windows. :P

But hey, that must have been what you moved to Cupertino for, right?

Maybe he actually lives in the spaceship there, it sure would be a lot of windows to clean.

People move to Cupertino for the school district, not for the nice house. The houses in Cupertino are, on average, modest and frumpy. Have you actually lived in Cupertino?

Let's just say Cupertino is in my blood. I wasn't thinking Atherton-scale window cleaning. Just to say -- if you move our of your ratbox and into the land of modest and frumpy, then this is what you should expect.

>FWIW, the initial boost of happiness derived from living in nice accomodations is shortlived, after a few weeks or a month you'll likely feel about the same as before you got the nicer digs.

That hasn't been my experience. When I found my current place I was ecstatic over it and ~3 years later, I still am just as much. I have no plans of moving out unless I move cities -- it hits the spot that much for me compared to all the previous places I've lived previously.

I wasn't advocating for living in a shithole. Of course you need (and everyone deserves) some base level of comfort!

Otoh, some apartments save lives.

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