> 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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