Tenants are often already financially worse off.
I would also have moved into a nice (rental) apartment. Only the rents here are more expensive than my mortgage payment.
If you don't save for your own home, what's left? You could retire earlier with a lot of capital that you then spend monthly. Otherwise, I really only see consumption left, which is also okay.
Yeah, I don't have a super expensive hobby now, that's actually the house. What you could blow on other things is here diligently saved and used for maintenance.
A rental apartment does that too, namely to the amount of the rent.
It’s probably the additional costs (see above) that are meant.
My point was to stop the romanticizing of homeownership and that everything is rosy and super great in one’s own property. That’s just not true, but people like to ignore that.
I totally agree. Only with this statement, you’re in the wrong forum ;) I often think that life would be more irresponsible and thus easier without property. Because gardening annoys me pretty often. Yes, it’s fun, but not when you _have_ to do it. Or with us yesterday: for 3 days our kitchen drain has stunk. We unscrewed a lot more or less and spent an hour cleaning it together. Then I cleaned the ventilation outlets: scraped off, wiped edges at the ceiling, scrubbed grease etc. off the plastic. Meanwhile my husband was cursing for an hour in the utility room because he put the pipes of the detached controlled residential ventilation back together. 3 hours invested in the house. And if that hadn’t been, then we would have done something in the garden. With an apartment, we could have gone for a nice walk in that time.