>Once you own your place, you don't have to pay rent, you can live on $500 a month. That may be covered by the unemployment help, so you don't have to work eith

>Once you own your place, you don't have to pay rent, you can live on $500 a month. That may be covered by the unemployment help, so you don't have to work either and don't pay taxes. At least in Washington, unemployment is limited to I believe 26 weeks. IIRC, during the big downturn this was doubled in a lot of places (perhaps nationally?) but at least here it is back to 26 weeks.