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To: Road Walker who wrote (36397)	5/2/2014 5:01:03 PM
From: gamesmistress	4 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 FJB i-node TimF Respond to of 42652

Every. building material, and construction standard in your house is strictly regulated My house was built in 1935, meets code, and still has many original features. But if real estate was managed like Obamacare, I would have to tear it down and rebuild it with "minimum benefits". ObamaCare sells one bedroom condos. It doesn't sell tin shacks Some people can only afford tin shacks, even with "subsidies", or want the equivalent of one. I think if that's the case they should buy what they afford, or want. I know you don't.

To: Road Walker who wrote (36397)	5/2/2014 6:26:50 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>> Every building material, and construction standard in your house is strictly regulated. When it's not, well just Google "Chinese drywall". That's really not correct. Where I live, if I chose to I could have an outhouse and building materials could be cardboard. I chose to live where I do because I did not want to have a city dictating to me what I could and could not do. I'm on city water because I want to be; but I have a well if I want to use it. If my nearest neighbor wants to build the proverbial hog farm next door he can do that. I understood the risk, and chose to take it. If I didn't want to take it I could live in a city that has building codes and tells people whether they can or cannot build a storage shed or fence in there yard, all that stuff. I had done that before and didn't want to do it again. So we do make choices. We have an all volunteer fire department and I do have to pay $50/year for that. But even though the fire station is within walking distance from my home, it may well burn down before they can get here, another risk I take that city dwellers don't. It is all about decisions; I like to be able to make my own and live the consequences.