Our Home
From:	e.
To:	trevoroche
Date:	Wed, Jul 10, 2019 11:37 pm

My home was built without debt. The previous owner and builder (adding to and adapting an old miners cabin) never had a bank account and only used cash, which she probably stashed under the mattress. She and a group of friends from our village helped with the building. None of the new walls are true. It might be over a foot thick at the top, but only 6 inches thick at the bottom. We have to pray that the wiring doesn't go too extremely haywire (and that's by far the major concern). But with all the weirdnesses, we still love the place, and visitors keep using the term comfortable. We like it weird, if not so extremely weird that it's quickly noticeable or too inconvenient. So your Russian example doesn't seem inherently terrible. Having a home like ours on a tiny income in these hard times seems like an INCREDIBLE luxury.