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>exactly the way I think. Home ownership is what you do when you act on autopilot. >If you think this through, it is essentially spending more money and more time on something very materialistic that doesn't matter that much.

>Renting allows you to spend more time and resources doing things that really matter.

Imo this is the classic argument of someone who doesn't own a home. I'm not sure how many issues you run into renting, but in home ownership they're relatively rare. And many of the issues are resolved the same way your landlord will resolve them, just paying someone to fix it (this is priced into your rent of course).

It just reminds me of someone who said they were renting and when I asked why they mentioned not wanting to cut the grass. A task that takes 20 minutes twice a month 6 months out of the year.



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