[bityard]

Count yourself lucky! I took a new job in another city just as the bubble hit and had a 3 hour round-trip commute for a year and a half due to that mess. We literally couldn't afford to sell our house because we were underwater on the mortgage. (Would have had to bring more money to the table than we had in savings.) And because of that we also missed a lot of great deals in the destination city as well and had to settle for a house in the suburbs that we weren't thrilled with but fit our budget.

I shouldn't complain too much, lots of people had it far worse. Millions lost their homes (and their downpayments) altogether and took over a decade to recover, if they ever did.