> But consulting work does pay well; generally, it pays very well.
Presumably because it's extremely high-stress work with no job security?
> But one other thing that's fairly common is to buy a house and let the
> value increase - and then sell it for the increased value and roll that
> over into another house. If one is smart about it, one can make a pretty
> decent amount of money doing that through "trading up" like that. It's
> rare at least here for anyone to live in the same house long enough to
> pay off a 30 year mortgage.
...which brings us back to my point of "if your house burns down, you
now have an extremely serious financial problem". ;-)
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