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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really wonder about our future when these are the existential problems people are experiencing. [/quote]

5 years later and where do things stand in our now present?[/quote]

Everyone who owns a second home has hundreds of thousands in appreciation and has been enjoying it for five years, while the miserable know it all proles remain miserable know it all proles in their $hit shacks.[/quote]

I’m not going to be mean but there is some truth to above.  Our place has gone up about 700k.  We love it and have made so many priceless memories there.  No way are we cashing out and plan to hold for a long time.

Sometimes it’s not about the money but about family and time though.   Yes we vacation elsewhere for new experiences but the second home is where we spend many weekends and the place that our kid will fondly remember spending growing up.  Some things you just can’t put a price on.[/quote]

My in-laws thought there kids felt that way, too. But being dragged away from their friends and activities weekend after weekend throughout their childhood has left feelings of resentment about the place and their parents that still flourishes well into their 50s. [/quote]

Good lord. I'm skeptical of this story. I grew up going to a summer house and we left the day after school ended in June and didn't return till the day before school started. I remember the mad rush to Staples to get school supplies after the long drive back from Cape Cod. Not once did I or my siblings ever resent being "dragged away" from our hometown friends for the summer. We had a whole summer life on the Cape.

Any adult in their 50s who has resentment feelings over having to go to a family summer house or weekend house has other problems - if they exist. [/quote]

Summer homes and a weekend homes are very different things.   Also, summer homes don’t work for families who have to work in person and/or want to have vacation time to go to other places.  I know foreign people who go overseas to Europe for the summer every year, it’s not just summer homes for them, but also family time.  Each situation is different.

Weekend homes are draining for school age kids and parent who have to work full time.

Also speak from experience[/quote]

I grew up in an area where it was common to have a summer house or weekend house, though the former was more common. The PP talked about adults in their 50s, which means they were teens in the 1980s. There was nothing like today's packed weekend activities for kids, extensive sports travel was incredibly rare. I do admit I find it odd that a family would drag kids to a weekend house every single weekend as their kids were growing up and I remain dubious unless there's more the poster isn't telling us.[/quote]

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