I’ve got a couple close friends who relocated to Europe and many colleagues. All are in high-tech and all seem perfectly content to rent (which I don’t understand but my close friends assure me it’s the case [and when something breaks or leaks in my house, I do understand some of the appeal]).
Maybe they are happy to rent because they are temporarily in Europe?
Not really. In EU, 70 % of population owns, while 30 % rents: