My wife wanted to move to the country after our son was born.
- She insisted that the city was no place to raise a child.
She didn’t want our son exposed to the mean streets and daily problems that real life people encounter, so I begrudgingly agreed to move to the burbs. We found an older, dilapidated plantation house on forty acres of property. My wife fell in love with the house as soon as she saw the old shutters and the interior fixtures. I thought the house was out of our budget especially with all the repairs that it needed. Once again, my wife talked me into making a decision that I knew I would regret. Now we are stuck with a mortgage on a house that requires multiple repairs. Our heating bill is through the roof. That is my major complaint right off the bat. We moved in the middle of November, I thought we should wait until the end of the school year but my wife insisted that we move into the new place before Christmas. She wanted to impress our friends and family with the new place and have a huge party. She put up thousands of lights all over the house. The heating bill and the electric bill were astronomical. The furnace didn’t keep the house very warm and we had to use a space heater in addition to the main furnace. I’m pretty sure the furnace is going to need repairs soon too, because $400 dollars seem unreasonable. Between the heating bill, the furnace repairs, and the electric bill, I’m starting to think we made the wrong decision with this house.