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by hef19898 975 days ago
Germans lag everyone in terms of home ownership, we are a nation of people renting appartments. Which explains the gap, the same way it did decades ago, the first time I remember people being confused by that statistic...
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dauertewigkeit 975 days ago
Wealth is wealth, and if you do not own a house and do not have 450k € extra in the bank compared to the home owner than you are poorer, literally.
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hef19898 975 days ago
You don't have 450k of course. You do have, say, 150k without a mortgage.
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