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The home-buying decision

Choosing a home can be difficult emotionally but perhaps now more than ever it can also be difficult morally.

Published Fri, Jan 6, 2017 · 09:50 PM

    I'VE been thinking about the big decisions in life: How do people choose careers, colleges, spouses and towns? Of those decisions, buying a home ranks with the most difficult.

    It is difficult emotionally. Like a lot of the biggest decisions, it is more emotional than coldly rational. People generally don't select a house; they fall in love with it.

    Part of that falling-in-love process is aesthetic: the sense you get within 10 seconds of walking into a place that it just feels happy and right. Part is aspirational: When people fall in love with a house, they aren't really falling in love with the walls and the roof; they are falling in love with a beautiful vision of their future lives.

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