Why a home is more than a mortgage
When we sold our home in Joburg and moved to Cape Town there were lots of things I was worried about when it came to the kids – would they settle in their new school, would they miss their family and friends?
Like any good mother I made sure I was worrying about every eventuality, but then my then six year old completely blind-sighted me with his biggest fear – that we would be renting a property and not owning our home.
Like any good mother I made sure I was worrying about every eventuality, but then my then six year old completely blind-sighted me with his biggest fear – that we would be renting a property and not owning our home.
For the nearly four years we have been renting, very happily, my son’s biggest desire has been to “have our own home”. Clearly being a couple who like to make life as complicated as possible we decided to build rather than buy (that is another column altogether) and my son is in seventh heaven with regular site visits where he plans out his bedroom in minute detail and asks endless questions about where the TV will go, where he will do his homework and where the dog will sleep.
