Commitment-Phobic Single Men and Home Ownership

Today's Boston Globe Magazine featured an interesting story. "Footloose and Mortgage-Free" does its best to nail down why single men "overwhelmingly prefer renting to buying."

When asked why, one single man answered "So we can leave quickly and no one can find us."

Oh. Please. Women have a homing device that startles most dogs and pigeons. Give us Google, Merlot and a bag of Peanut M&Ms and we can find anything. Even you.

What got our curtains in a bundle was a quote by Judy Moses, president of Pathway Home Realty Group in Chestnut Hill. "A lot of them will never find 'perfect,' because that's not really what the problem is. There is no perfect out there, whether it be a property or a sweetheart. You can't expect a property to do the impossible, just like you can't expect a person to. You take them with all their warts."

Hah! Commit-phobes have found something new to avoid. It's home ownership.

And to those men, we give this advice: Buy a home. It will be the only time that you will be able to gut something and rebuild it to suit your ideal.

We dare you to try that with a woman.