Jujupilote wrote:
Same of women who agree to live on a sail boat.
That largely depends on the boat.
Lots of people simply love to be near or at the sea, sunbathe, swim, do other stuff in a maritime setting. Also works on lakes. And from a certain size, boats are family vehicles, so it actually means people spending time together.
Many other such hobbies usually divide the family up, unless all of them are involved in the same thing. That is a general problem not restricted to GA or horses or boating or whatever. To find a partner which has similar interests or which is sufficiently independent to follow their own while allowing you to follow yours is the biggest challenge in life I suppose.
Riding horses, sailing, riding motocycles are hobbies as cumbersome as flying.
I don’t get how women agree to ride on the back of a motocycle for a week, through sun and rain, talking moto stuff every evening among a group of moto addicts 
Same of women who agree to live on a sail boat.
Quite some young adults from the paris upper-class spend a dozen weekends per year in Brittany to sail (thanks TGV). Some carry on even when married.
GA looks so much more “civilized” to me 
If it flies, floats, or f-s, its cheaper to rent by the hour…
With a horse, you can choose: you either go there once (or twice) a day, or you pay someone (known as a “stable girl”) to look after it (“full livery”) which then costs quite a bit and easily more than hangaring a plane.
The facilities for this are a most powerful driver behind choosing a house, because obviously you can’t just get it “around the corner” in most places. But before that you need to have a stable source of funds
Mooney_Driver wrote:
due to longer times of not flying, may also develop very expensive issues.
Agreed. But a plane does not require a daily visit or feed.
Peter_G wrote:
Although we frequently bemoan the cost of flying, at least whilst our plane is hangered and underused – sometimes for long periods of time due to Covid, weather etc. – it doesn’t require feeding/fueling then: The daily commitment & feeding cost for maintaining a horse can be astronomical.
It does need to be serviced and ran regularly or otherwise put into storage properly. Both is also not inexpensive. Airplanes left to sit in a hangar or worse outside due to longer times of not flying, may also develop very expensive issues.
Peter wrote:
both should ideally be hangared
Although we frequently bemoan the cost of flying, at least whilst our plane is hangered and underused – sometimes for long periods of time due to Covid, weather etc. – it doesn’t require feeding/fueling then: The daily commitment & feeding cost for maintaining a horse can be astronomical.
Horses are more like motorcycles.
Except a motorcycle where the brakes occasionally seize and it will not move forward under any circumstances.
And other times where the brakes fail and the throttle gets stuck wide open.
Peter wrote:
Anything I left out?
For both first time owners think that purchase is expensive until they figure out that it is only a tiny down payment on total cost of ownership.
Peter wrote:
Anything I left out?
Depending on how you look at it…. I am glad I don’t have to pick up behind my airplane… yet others would lament that what my airplane might drop occasionally in little droplets is not quite suitable for fertilizing strawberry fields….. this is where horses may come in handy.
I prefer whipped cream anyway.
But maybe the one similarity those of us who have known a partner with a passion for horses can fathom what our spouses go through with ours for aviation.
