Would you be content? Tim Ferris isn’t:

[Cuyahoga] county has been run in such a fashion that our personal investment in the county (our little $32,000 house) has not kept pace with the outside world, and yet we as a county are paying outside-world prices for goods, services, and salaries. This is not sustainable. We need to cut back on what we are spending around here for that nebulous layer of county services. Can you tick off right quickly what things the county does are mission-critical? The roads, and then what?

What we pay to keep a bloated county trundling along seems to be like throwing good money after bad. We’ve supported them lavishly in the past, and all we have is a growth in our investment here of under 2%. It’s time to pull the plug on them…

Tim Ferris: 24 years at 1.87%