i live in a pretty small place (as far as cities go), it’s not a small-small town, but it’s only 100k population spread out across quite a massive area

there’s still a few 800-1000 sqm blocks / established homes floating around the place, which i think would be ideal for myself and my future family

i can buy something established that needs some work for $450k if i’m lucky and find a good deal

i’ve always hated debt which is predominantly why i was asking this question to begin with, but it’s a bit of a stalemate situation

rent is ridiculous atm ($500+ AUD per week is the median here), so you can’t really save all that much while having to pay that (especially while i’m the sole income earner)

but then repayments on a home loan would be about the same for a $500k-ish home with interest rates where they currently are

but then it’s difficult to feel settled enough to start a family when you don’t own your home, or have stable living conditions (last rental we were in just sold at the end of the lease term, so we couldn’t resign, so forced back into competing in the tight rental market)

i’m stacking as much bitcoin as i can, so we’ll see where that gets me 👍🏼 (i’m just conscious that i’ll probably have to pull the trigger on purchasing a home some time in the next couple years so i can start building a family)

i’ve been trying to learn as much as i can in the bitcoin space too though - i’ve been setting up a node on a raspberry pi “the hard way”(i.e. SSH only, all from the command line using Ubuntu Server)

here’s something i wrote (mostly for my own benefit) about setting up your rpi4 node to boot from your SSD (instead of sd card) when you’re using Ubuntu Server (which isn’t as easy as it seems if you don’t have a USB-to-SATA cable handy):

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