[arp242]

People just want a house to live in. That's it. They don't want a "broad based index fund" or investments or anything else. They just want a house to live in. With all the stability that comes with it. And then spend their free time doing more useful things. Also it doesn't scale; we can't all be investing all the time.

This kind of reductionism where everything boils down to financials is exactly how we ended up in this mess to start with. Maybe we shouldn't have structured everything around that because ... people just want a house to live in.

[tossandthrow]

Parent commenter is talking about a financial decision.

You can have a place to live without buying.

Your comment is malplaced.

[CRConrad]

And GP told GGP why buying a house isn't just a financial decision.

As many others also told GGP, you cannot have a place you're certain to live in on your own terms without buying.

So yeah, someone's comment was malplaced, all right... But it wasn't the GP.