The Fallujah Plan

Well, we had begun thinking about how to manage the purchase of a home, and we had the aforementioned restriction on price. At first, all the homes in our price range were either
a) far away from town (job, church, friends, etc.)
or
b) in severely crime-ridden parts of town.

The thought occurred to us to go ahead and live in a crime-ridden part of town. This is the Fallujah part of the plan. We'd buy the cheapest house possible and save up all the money we'd spend on rent until we could move up to a house in a nicer neighborhood. Of course, the only way to survive would be if there were like-minded people filling up the houses in the vicinity. Then we had a thought:

What if we found an area with lots of houses for sale and convinced our friends to buy a cluster of houses with us, and we'd live in a debt-free utopian community with a touch of crime in the background?

We never really got that community-building effort off the ground. Probably the main reason was because we found a goldmine of cheap houses without a great deal of crime in an older, outlying region of town. What was that like? Perhaps I'll explain next week.

But if the whole cluster of houses in utopia sounds good, there are a couple for sale on our street...

Pro 27:10 - Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: [for] better [is] a neighbour [that is] near than a brother far off.