Viking_Hippie , 4 months ago

Some people want to stay at the same place forever those buy, some want to be flexible and rent

Yeah, that’s bullshit. It’s a MUCH better deal to buy than to rent and everyone knows it. Most of us just don’t have enough money at once or a high enough income to be granted the requisite loans.

In the two decades plus change since I moved from home, I’ve paid as much in rent as someone richer would have paid to own a house several times the size of my apartment in the same neighborhood. I’ve paid as much but I don’t get to own what I paid for and even generate passive wealth that I could pass down to later generations if I had kids.

TL;DR: if you’re renting, you’re getting a bad deal and so is your kids and their kids and their kids and…