I am about 85% sure I have found a house-I plan on moving Dec 1-I am so happy and sooooo scared-When my X left I moved into a dump of a house for about the same amount of money as this one-but it was about 80 miles a day round trip and i had an old clunker that sucked up $20 a day in gas-I was also making about $1200 a month less-this place is ten minutes from work. My fear is I hit rock bottom at my last house and had to run home to mommy(huge mistake)I will be very poor-my daughter and I prepared for this-Things are different this time-I am more grounded, I am not as sad, i have a better car, no commute,and i make more money. I need this i cannot move on until I have a place of my own, i am not away from home 15 hours a day, and I am not living out of boxes and suitcases. My fear is that I will find myself at the bottom again not able to make it-I can't do that to my daughter again-I am afraid to make the leap but I really think i can do it-should i stay where i am-I pay my mom five hundred a month, I spend two hundred on storage, and I spend four hundred on gas-about the same as my rent-should I go for it or stay where it is safe but miserable.