Quality of life & making wrong decision for some

[shootingstar]

lives alone. Is it possible by our judging others for any reason including location we sometimes miss an opportunity to create community and support?
.........................As I "bat for the other team" I'm not sure of what are probably a slew of reasons a man might not state his relationship status to someone he just met. But even and especially those who "live alone" do need to form/build community. Instead of judging one should seek to reach out.
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I don't think anyone is flipping these days. I don't know the market up north but it's tanked here. Sounds like regardless of why he moved there or buying that home he may be mulling the choices to increase his quality of life including but not limited to; job closer to home or part time, or find the local cycling near his home.

Just an observation from me Trek, since I am aware...I am alone in the city but my partner (who is divorced, so I know all about those sensitivities) ..is 1,500 kms. west of me.

So spending time chatting up with a friendly strange guy for over an hr. on some interesting topics (liveable communities, etc.), to me, is reaching out.

It's enough for me...I normally don't spend hrs. and hrs. of personal time with other single guys outside of work. It just hasn't been my style. It's just me, how I operate. I just haven't been interested in investing much time for nurturing platonic close friendships with guy friends outside of work, when I already have a partner.

I would prefer more female good new friends in life. But that's not going to happen real fast either with all the changes in life so far and being newish in this city.

Most likely he probably spent less money than I did for the place I just got ..with less acreage but closer to city stuff/conveniences. He was a university educated guy with familiarity to cultural stuff. So he was in the city on his day off, to get abit of the stuff (which right now is pancake breakfasts, country 'n western music, cowboy hattin' and boot strappin' folks struttin' all over town).

The real estate market in Canada did not suffer in the same way as the U.S. We don't have the sub-prime mortgage fiasco situation on the same scale at all here that could esclate because our banks are quite regulated. I trust the reliability of our national banks so far that I would never get a mortgage from a small firm mortgage broker. No way. I was surprised to learn that in the U.S. there are state banks or state level banks. Our Canadian banks are federally regulated. Credit unions, insurance companies...are subject to a raft of provincial legislation plus some federal.

While property in some Canadian provinces did fall during the worlwide economic recession, it didn't fall totally flat on its face. Now it's climbing back. But no massive foreclosure situations like in the U.S. that has swept across whole swaths in some cities, etc. in residential areas. 'Cause there are stories of some Canadians taking trips down into the U.S. to buy foreclosed homes in certain areas.

Right now it feels like the frontier prairie West all over again, oil industry post-Stampede parties, buying open acreage...yahooooooooo!