Illustration by Angela Keoghan. You bought a house! Of course you did. Back then — not so long ago, when you think about it — it’s what most of us did. You bought a house because you needed one, because you wanted one. Because you could. There were always an unlucky few, but for the rest of us, buying a house was just what we did. It’s what was expected of us, and what we expected for ourselves. It was a turning point, and a milestone, and it was so much more than that. A sanctuary, a comfort, a certainty. A place to call home and a place to come home to. A warm light in a window. A beacon. A nest. You bought a house! Perhaps, over the years, you even managed to buy a weekend bolthole, too — a little bach on the coast or a simple inland cottage. Nothing fancy — not that it mattered, because it wasn’t about making A Good Investment. In the end — and now that you think about it, even in the beginning — it wasn’t about that at all. Let’s face it: if buying a house had been about making money, ...
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