'I'll pay £1m over 25 years on my mortgage - but I'll never own my home outright'

'I'll pay £1m over 25 years on my mortgage - but I'll never own my home outright'

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I Can Never Own My Perfect Home

Lydia C. Buchanan dreams of owning her own home. But, as a struggling writer, it may be out of her reach forever. Buchanan reflects on how this desire crept up and consumed her, the opposite of the freedom she desired when she was younger. She also gives us some exquisite descriptions of the sort of house she wishes she could own, and wonderful disparagements of those she does not: “I hate new houses. I shrivel inside of them. The floors are too…