Declan Murphy wrote:
> Kevin Gowen wrote:
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>>Declan Murphy wrote:
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>>>Kevin Gowen wrote:
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>>>>Declan Murphy wrote:
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>>>>>Kevin Gowen wrote:
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>>>>>>Declan Murphy wrote:
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>>>>>>>Kevin Gowen wrote:
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>>>>>>>>Declan Murphy wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>Riddle me this one. On the stairs up to the apartment after coming home
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>from a Xmas party on Friday night, I retrieve the bride-to-be's heavy
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>>>>>>>>>backpack from the car. I'm wearing a suit. My hands are full because I
>>>>>>>>>have my briefcase in one hand and a grocery bag in the other from the
>>>>>>>>>ministop conbini, so I put her bag on my back. Headbutt (gently) the
>>>>>>>>>doorbell when I reach the top of the stairs. She answers the door and
>>>>>>>>>breaks out laughing "名古屋ガイジンみたい"
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>>>>>>>>Apartment?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Garden variety 3DK.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You don't seem like the type who would throw his money away.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm not.
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>>>>So you're not renting?
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>>>Yes I am renting the apartment. No I am not "the type who would throw
>>>his money away". Any more questions Kev?
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>>Yes. Do you think if you were owning, with the savings you would have
>>been able to afford keeping Brett on payroll? That wunderkind must have
>>been expensive!
> 
> 
> Quality comes at a price, but to answer your question - no. If I'd taken
> leave of my senses and bought a house, then opportunity cost would have
> meant that all of the seed capital needed for the business would have
> instead been used to for 4 walls and a roof. Then the company wouldn't
> have started in the first place & instead of 11 employees there would
> have been none. Plus for at least a few years if not longer, I'd have
> been enduring the life of a salaried bloke doing what other people
> decided. No thank you.
> 
> Most of my assets are liquid (shares in my businesses, some in
> customer's companies, some in Toyota and other firms I know well, plus a
> few securities) and are so for what I think are good reasons. I'm
> single, I don't apply for permanent residency until later this month so
> a loan hasn't been something I've really looked into much, and a few
> years after the wedding we migth wish to move, "do a Ryan" or even go to
> Europe or Australia. The current apartment is comparatively cheap,
> costing less than what servicing an average mortage in Okazaki would
> cost. It has 2 parking spots, is a five minute drive from work and I
> rent it from a (different) company I own shares in. I'll buy what I
> want, where I want, when I want. Only an idiot would do otherwise.

You forgot to mention how much you bench.

-- 
Kevin
"This is the best election night in history."--Democratic National
Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, Nov. 2, 2004, just before 8 p.m. EST