[foxyv]

Regarding your edit; a section of the people who browse Hacker News comments HATE landlords. Every comment I've seen from someone who has experience as one has seen a lot of downvotes. Even if they are just stating a fact or expanding on something.

[scarface74]

Not everyone wants to be a homeowner. Heck I didn’t want to be a homeowner in 2016 when I bought my current house. I thought I might be moving to the west coast to work for Big Tech this summer (2020) when my son graduated. Rent was going up so fast as people started moving into the area that it didn’t make sense to wait.

Luckily, I found a remote job at Big Tech. But I dreaded thinking I might have to go through the hassle of moving pre-Covid.

I hate to get meta. But I really haven’t seen anything this weird in the years I’ve been posting here. Easily verifiable facts with no opinions being added getting downvoted and no one disagreeing with me.