I think bitcoin is a long term hold, but I think bitcoin cash is a buy and a longer term hold.

I'm afraid it's the wrong assumption, @runridefly. If BCH gets to the level of BTC, it will inevitably crash into the wall of scaling.

Even if we disregard centralizing hashing power under control of much fewer nodes, it is never a good idea to try to petrify something in the digital domain.

But it's good that BCH exists. It will show — with a slight delay — possible destiny of BTC without improvements.