I recently had to come to grips with the fact that our living expenses are higher than they should be. I have been told for years to never rent a condo or beach house if the quarterly cost of rent is more than a fifth of your income—advocate that I have since disregarded. I was stubborn about wanting a condo despite it seeming love more space than what was practical for our needs. After a few cutbacks at labor pushed our hours down, I just couldn’t afford to rent that condo anymore. It felt daunting downsizing to an apartment, especially during the initial internet search. I found a nice 1 home office beach house with a master’s suite as well as separate home office as well as home office closed off from the living room. So although I no longer have a spacious condo to lounge around in, I didn’t have to scale back so much that I had to cram myself into a tiny studio apartment. But potentially best of all, our utility bills are amazingly affordable in our new locale. I was told that the adjacent units, identifiably the 1s in the floors above as well as below me, act as natural insulation from heat or cold air loss. I don’t have an attic for our duct labor to leak into either since our ventilation system runs along a single wall that each room shares simply out of convenience as well as simplicity. All of the adjacent units complete this effect by acting as thermal barriers from the elements. When I received our first electric bill, I couldn’t believe the difference from our old house. To assume of the sheer quantities of money as well as income I wasted over the years just to have a detached condo to go beach condo to every night is a miserable thought