[mikasisiki]

It’s possible. Either way, many people literally sleep in a monthly subscription model — rent.

[jrs235]

That makes more sense though. Since one can't easily take a home with them (it's fixed to the ground), renting a dwelling provides flexibility and liquidity for life changing events.

[testing22321]

You might be interested to learn a huge percentage of people pay rent to sleep in a trailer park, where the houses very much have wheels.

[vel0city]

Many of these people are in essentially double financialized situations, where they have a loan on the mobile home and they pay monthly pad fees to the trailer park.

[lm28469]

It's very cultural though, in eastern Europe you often have 80/90% of people living in a home they own.

[Traubenfuchs]

You still have to pay for utilities and taxes: No way to escape that unless you live in the wilderness.

[pepperball]

> No way to escape that unless you live in the wilderness.

The wilderness is all owned. Trespassers will be prosecuted.

[lotsofpulp]

“Rent” needs to better defined at this point.

At least some portion of utilities and tax charges pay for ongoing maintenance and investment to provide expected quality of life. Similar to how rent for a home eventually pays for a new roof or other repairs.

The profit margin component of rent is probably what most are referring to in this discussion, but presumably tax and (government owned) utilities don’t have that.

[charcircuit]

Government utilities fo have a profit margin, they aren't a charity.

[lotsofpulp]

This context is about a profit that gets distributed to shareholders, which obviously does not benefit the payer. Whatever "profit" a government owned utility earns is presumably, eventually re-invested into the utility eventually benefiting the payer.

[croes]

Because buying a house is even more unaffordable.