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I am a home owner since 1998 I think that none of you arguments against owning make sense to me. To me your writing reads like following: due to the world gone crazy I can no longer afford to buy house so let's concoct some soul soothing reason and pretend that all is fine.

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Yes and how about also people in older generations who are done paying off mortgages and now live paying just the real estate tax.

Because they purchased. And they stayed there. I think people forget that boomers bought their houses 20 30, 40 years ago, and they stayed there. It's not like they bought it 10 years ago and all of a sudden it went up dramatically. I don't think a lot of people consider that longer timeline, it's just easier to blame "boomers."

And maintained it. The house didn't just get better over 30 years. A lot of weekends were spent painting and mending things.

I assure you I pay a lot more than just the real estate tax (and insurance). There's a ton of maintenance in general. Even with insurance, I was just out a good $50K with a middle of the night kitchen fire.

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