[77newell]

I never thought about this until my wife and I were looking to buy a house in the Detroit area several years ago. One question that came up regularly was "are you or did work as an engineer"? Puzzled at this question I finally asked: "what's up with this engineer question". The response I got was the engineers as buyer always (an exaggeration I hope) expect the house to be perfect and complain like mad when it isn't. I learned to lie that I had not worked as an engineer but then had to live with not complaining about any house's shortcomings. If nothing else it made my wife happier.

The choice to move to the Detroit area was definitely not an engineering decision, but we love it nonetheless (well, at least my wife does)