A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M

Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by dionidium on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:53PM (#15041392)

I'm sorry, but no. If you have a million-dollar gold statue of a pig that you're unwilling to sell, your unwillingness doesn't even enter into it. You still have the million-dollar statue and it's still worth a million dollars. It doesn't matter what rationale you provide for not selling it. It just doesn't matter. Those reasons seem important to you. But they aren't important in assessing the value of the statue.

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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by quesera on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:25AM (#15043548)

You can't live in a statue of a pig.

Value of primary residence isn't even considered part of your net worth. It exists, but it's not fungible like other assets.

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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by dionidium on Friday August 18, 2017 @01:50PM (#15048263)

This response is why you should never use analogies.

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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by quesera on Monday August 21, 2017 @11:30PM (#15069496)

I used the pig statue analogy in the same sense as your original.

Anything you own that has value, but is not your primary residence, is intrinsically different from your primary residence.

And that difference is reflected in standard financial metrics.

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