I do appreciate what I have. I have a good house in a good neighborhood for two people, I have a good car, DW works at home at a job she loves, I work in a job that I love and get paid good money at, and I'm content.
One thing that always gets me is the need to buy a house in a "good" school neighborhood. I don't have to worry about that. The interesting thing is that in a development of 800 homes, our subdivision is one of 30 homes, our house is the second one in, has the second largest yard of any house around, but is the smallest house of all. It would be sufficient for 3 kids (two in a big bedroom and one in a smaller bedroom) but we have reallocated that space so that DW has an upstairs office, and I have my own bedroom/hangout space

Couldn't do that with kids around, or we'd need... drum roll...yet ANOTHER bigger house. With the price of housing now, that would be astronomical (and that isn't with the cost of kids themselves!)
Yep, we're staying there.
