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by jajko 480 days ago
lol lets just say we disagree on practically everything :) to each their own

Just one point - there is no way ownership of some home brings actual happiness, you overload the term massively. Not only some theory, I simply never met such a person so that this would be actually valid. I've lived in 3 different cultures and talk about 100s of folks knowing well personally.

Although I've met quite a few folks that, by chasing the dream of some home in suburbs 'to have their own place' ruined their marriage often beyond repair, including happy childhood of their kids.

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>>Just one point - there is no way ownership of some home brings actual happiness, you overload the term massively.

There was this stock broking platform owner here in India who was going on Youtube for years and telling people to rent instead of buying.

Last year, his landlord showed him the door, and he had to vacate.

Even for the rich. Not being to able to continuously associate with a place. Not being able to modify the premises, not being able to keep the beautification they would have done to the premises or just being asked to leave without having any control over the place is grounds enough to own a place.

>>Although I've met quite a few folks that, by chasing the dream of some home in suburbs 'to have their own place' ruined their marriage often beyond repair, including happy childhood of their kids.

Their wife and kids will likely hate homelessness more. Some times you have to experience worse to value to these things.

Everytime food gets bland at home, I go fasting for a while. Suddenly the blandest salad tastes good.

You can talk to the sages modern or ancient. They will give you this one advice- Avoid the big problems, and things that can kill you. You can only go upwards from here.

Sure there's a way owning a home brings happiness . . . when you're ready to retire, you've paid off your mortgage, and then you can actually, you know, retire. As opposed to funding your landlord's retirement paying rent for the rest of your life.