Canto III

So now for something that's been going on this last week. I just found out one of my best friends bought a house. Which is fantastic! I'm really happy for him and his wife. But this now makes a disturbing trend of people I grew up with buying houses and here we are, stuck in Boston with it's ridiculously high housing market. And we're only going to be here for another 3 1/2 years or so, if all goes to plan. So it doesn't make much sense to buy a house, even if we could afford it (which we can't). I never bought into the "keeping up with the Jones'" thing, but then again I've never been fully employed with a wife until rather recently. I'm not sure it's jealousy - I'm not jealous at anyone in particular, just the state of home-ownership. I really just miss the feeling of "this is all mine, my own little castle". I haven't really felt it since I finally got my own room at 13, and lost after I went to college. Maybe it's just the fact that the title for the person we pay rent to is "Landlord" - I thought serfdom went out with the industrial revolution?