[abusoufiyan]

May I ask why you want to own a house? I am kind of realizing that the majority of people in the world do not own a house.

[celticninja]

Because then it's yours. If all else fails you have 4 walls and a roof over your head. Also it's not fair to compare an individual to the rest of the world due to the large and varied place that it is.

[jazzyk]

But in the US, some people argue that the house is not completely "yours" - if you don't pay your (ever increasing) real-estate taxes, the house may be taken from you.

[mud_dauber]

Exactly.

[imtringued]

That's not actually true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne...