I wouldn't hate having a small house just to chill in and dump all the housing stuff the MSQ throws at you. Maybe craft myself some nice furniture. And I was actually pretty happy to hear about Shirogane housing (even though I much would rather have gotten Ishgard). I have zero interest in living in Shirogane, so I was hoping plots would open up in some of the older wards (Limsa, Ul'dah, Gridania). Then I thought about it a little more and realized... No houses in current wards will disappear with the introduction of Shirogane. Since you can have more than 1 house, there's literally no downside to just buying a second house in Shirogane. Maybe if some FCs try to move to Shirogane I can jump on one but... what the shit. For real. 1 personal house per server, all current and future alternate characters on said server automatically made tenants. Stop-gap measure until something more meaningful can be done with housing. Reimbursement for people that currently own houses? List price +10%, all decorations turned into the housing reclaimer guy. Kinda sucks for people that own houses though, and it's not like I'm entitled to something they got before me sooooo... *shrug*