Come Home

owning a house or a place to call home has been more difficult to obtain, since affordability has decreased, especially in the cities. Portland, Oregon is an example of the occurring situation and because of its popularity the area has become highly populated. A place is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay. As a consequence to the ongoing situation, low income communities have been losing their homes, for they can no longer afford living in their homes. A solution to combat this…

Working full time from home is no longer an alien concept. It is a reality for a large number of urban populace as well as for those living beyond the city’s limits. Working from one’s own home office offers quite a few advantages such as working in a personalised environment, saving on the commute time and staying close to one’s family. It has multiple drawbacks too none of which is so sorely felt as when you are forced to work from an ill designed home office space. When you are planning to…

Many people would describe home as a warm and welcoming place providing an individual shelter and security. Especially, after a long vacation, we all start to seek the comfort of home. Although, home is not necessarily a materialistic object in which we reside in. Home is rather an unimaginable longing that our hearts begin to seek when we are living in a constant circle of dissatisfaction. As humans, we are wandering around in a world where we are constantly striving to fill a void mentally,…

have as a parent. It is already hard enough to maintain a home, work decent hours, and raise one child on two incomes. Now, imagine maintaining a home, working long hours, and raising four children on just one income. My mom did this for twenty-two years, and it was not easy on her, but she never once complained. As a child, I never realized how hard she worked, however, looking back now I remember how she acted after coming home from work. My mom worked as a cook and stock manager. She…

of my grandparents who in a sense took the first shift. They took me to school and made sure I was taken care of until my mother returned from work. “But most workplaces have remained inflexible in the face of family demands of their workers and at home…” (Hochschild 12). This was true for my mother who wasn’t…

with a few visits to Home Depot now and then. They did wall paper in the living room, my mother picked bathroom tiles and my father installed it in 3 weeks of time, and my mother picked out a dishwasher to replace an old one and my father read instruction and did it in 1 weekend. So how bad can it be? The partitioning of wall was ok, the place is newly painted. Kitchen looks old and window/drapery is ancient but we can take care of it. A month into occupying our new home, 3rd floor 3 bedroom…

tear can be frustrating, not always critical home problems. Larger replacements and repairs can be a disaster without a home warranty. A serious problem with plumbing, heating and air conditioning systems may be the most expensive when of comes to home equipment. The cost of an annual home warranty is a smaller portion compared to the cost of replacement for new equipment. Unless the homeowners have an emergency fund or deep pockets the cost of the home warranty is a return of investment down…

the same idea, her daughters live here but they were at angers for high school first year because their mom had left, again. But nowadays, they are, especially her, more stable because immigration don’t have only advantages but unwanted effects such home sick and adaptation each time for each new place. Gender roles are very balanced to the Peterson, I have notice it when I was there for thanksgiving, in fact, Milo do same housework as Lori, each at their time. When I was there, it was Milo’s…

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to support their families or live in their homes. Today, many thousands of those victims of foreclosures have since turned into potential homebuyers. Today, just 5 or 6 years after the economy took such a large hit, it has reached record heights. The real estate market is still difficult to buy for many, but it has definitely come back from where it was. How did real estate turn around so well you ask? When homes are…