Big gamble buying such a large and often quite an expensive bird, then ethics and morals are tested and larger harder and scarier decisions need to be made.
It really is rather easy housing another budgie if I get a mate for Squeak and it does not work out- 2 little flight cages, cheap enough to get a second set of everything budgie sized toys food accessories etc, the noise is increased but the change in volume or the noise factor from 2 little birds is extremely different to the noise factor of 2 macs or 2 cockies, like seriously I could have ten budgies (not ever going to happen by the way!) in my house and they still could not make the neighbours hear them outside where as one mac is loud enough to be heard inside the houses four doors away so two of them going off less often than budgies do is still possibly way too often for neighbours to stay happy and then there are the added costs Budgie cage maybe $200 or less, mac cage over $1k, budgie perches $7 each- mac perch $30 each, 2 mac perches and toys are quite a fair bit more than five new budgie perches, toys and a bag of feed lol, then we have all the other questions... will the new and the existing birds get along? will it change the relationship owner currently has with known bird? will it bring a positive or make a negative for the current bird? A negative reaction from Squeak is simple to deal with even if he plays up and gets aggressive- the same cannot be said for a negative reaction from a mac or 2.
There is more but that is some of the basic stuff that comes to my mind right now. Also as we discussed last night... I could not bring another mac home even if I wanted to as I ended up with a 2nd large bird I had not actually planned on and in my area you can only get a permit to have 2 large birds at each house so unless I disguise Birdie as a chook (hehehe) I can't even entertain the thought of giving either Burt or Birdie a mate.