The reason for the house

Buying a home was a big decision for Suzanne and me.  Not only is it one of the largest financial decisions/transactions you'll ever make (or perhaps the largest), it's one of the most long-lasting and has an inestimable impact on your health, happiness, and well-being.

This article in the New York Magazine, although set in a different geography on a different scale (extreme suburbs of New York City), does an excellent job of covering all of the reasons why we chose to plant our roots in our hometown of Granite City, a re-inventing-itself steel/industrial town in the shadow of St. Louis' Gateway Arch.

"It's a story, admittedly, about... people not pulled to one city or another by family obligation
or job transfer, but rather by some grander idea of who they are and
where they might best fit."

Of course, we've been blessed by the fact that this place has also been able to remain the center of our family (both sets of our parents and siblings) and our parish church community that sits at the center of our lives.  But the reality of a low house payment, proximity to a "big city" when we want it, blocks from an 80-acre park with all we'd want, a beautiful home in a gentrified and historic neighborhood... all that is something that we couldn't find in one package anywhere else we looked.

Don't miss the article. It's a good one.

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