Originally Posted by tictac (Post 5163057)

Indeed...........

"Tucked away in our subconscious minds is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long, long trip that almost spans the continent. We're traveling by passenger train, and out the windows we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn and wheat, of flatlands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hills, of biting winter and blazing summer and cavorting spring and docile fall.

But uppermost in our minds is the final destination. On a certain day at a certain hour we will pull into the station. There sill be bands playing, and flags waving. And once we get there so many wonderful dreams will come true. So many wishes will be fulfilled and so many pieces of our lives finally will be neatly fitted together like a completed jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering ... waiting, waiting, waiting, for the station.

However, sooner or later we must realize there is no one station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.

"When we reach the station, that will be it !" we cry. Translated it means, "When I'm 18, that will be it ! When I buy a new 450 SL Mercedes Benz, that will be it ! When I put the last kid through college, that will be it ! When I have paid off the mortgage, that will be it ! When I win a promotion, that will be it ! When I reach the age of retirement, that will be it ! I shall live happily ever after !"

Unfortunately, once we get it, then it disappears. The station somehow hides itself at the end of an endless track.

"Relish the moment" is a good motto, especially when coupled with Psalm 118:24: "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad. Rather, it is regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves who would rob us of today.

So, stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot oftener, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. The station will come soon enough.:"

The Station
by Robert J. Hastings

Originally Posted by on a mission (Post 5162568)

And the ordinary joe, spends 30 years paying it back to a bank, just to leave it to their kids,

sounds a great plan to me, with the current prices and interst rates....

Originally Posted by aston man (Post 5162663)

lucky us eh mate,what an investment we have made,money well spent in my book..i wouldnt swap my investment for the world..

Originally Posted by rabsody (Post 5162650)

Ownership of property is one of the fundamental principles of the liberal ideologies that underpin western beliefs. (i've just been at my politics lecture! ;))

Originally Posted by Amanda Jayne (Post 5162630)

One of my mates have just taken out a 40 year mortgages! :curse:

Amanda

Originally Posted by ozzieeagle (Post 5162658)

Gardens = work, which eats into leisure time, thats most probably the biggest factor in people accepting the small outdoor areas.

Originally Posted by Amazulu (Post 5162545)

People invest in property as it's a great way to make money.

Originally Posted by annqldau (Post 5164507)

The garden is supposed to be leisure time even the looking after it, you're supposed to enjoy the planting, pruning etc. not look on it as a chore.

Originally Posted by TrickyTree (Post 5165652)

I'm with the Eagle on that one I had a huge house on a medium sized block with hardly any garden.
Even that small bit of gardening eventually gave me the shits so we now live in a unit (with zero garden) in the city. :thumbsup:

We also have a couple of investment properties which we wouldnt swap for the world (at the moment). It seems the perfect way for your moeny to be invested with the current growth.

Originally Posted by ozzieeagle (Post 5166254)

BTW Tricky, may be a few of us coming up Nov16th for Qland R v MV. Brisbane meeting of Palace fans actually. Could be good to catch up. (b4 the game that is ;) )

It's not that I don't like gardening, its the fact that I get very little leisure time, what with 2 kids to run here there and everywhere with extra cirricular activities, the inside of the house actually fills enough of my leisure time, without having to worry about the Garden. So It's time rather than effort that eats into the Garden time, which makes it pressured. I'm sure I'm in a sizeable percentage of the population with this. I'm on a 110 x 55 foot block which is quite big for the inner city, and is basically too much garden for me. Not for the kids though.