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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Moominoid who wrote (6450)	10/30/2002 9:39:22 PM
From: Conan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

David, Elroy correctly identified the author as Henry David Thoreau. It is a quote from Walden which was written in the 1840's. I thought Thoreau's discussion of the burdens of owning real estate -- and the burdens of renting -- was interesting in light of the discussions on the thread. Thoreau thought that his neighbors in Concord were toiling away on farms they rarely owned outright when perhaps they might have a better life without being burdened with the need for so many possessions. Contrast what Throreau wrote with Gordon Gekko's attitude about owning things. Conan