It all depends on the lifestyle you are accustomed to and your perception of money in your life.Personally, I'm really passionate about the idea of stable future and certain benefits for my children.

They deserve to be shunt away from society.

And contrary to popular perception, California has a massive amount of stupid people - uneducated college educated, clueless, Pollyannas that think they are special and the entire world should listen them them and their enlightened views.

Our society does not believe in redemption or that serving time should of cleared the debt to society.  

A renter, while they may have slightly more cash on hand to invest in the short term, often loses out on the massive wealth building tools afforded by home ownership in our society. 

Chapter and verse, Stanley tells you like it is, and you question it, "No, it can't really be so..." and then some years pass as you're paying attention and you realize we live in a society that really does keep us broke by playing all day on our vanity and silliness, siphoning away our wealth-creating power with ridiculous ideas they brainwash us into.My wife and I recently went through COVID-19 -- it's one of the reasons why I haven't been very active here recently.

****However it is a product like groceries, food, or gas that may put you contact with every type of person in our society, depending on your specific location and product type(section 8 apartments vs.

I anticipate it will do to our global society what the bubonic plague did to medieval Europe.

The waste is annoying, and as our society shifts that might be an issue in the future for the environmentalist crowd - lol - tough to please everyone right?

Half of them believe they need 20% down and are surprised when they find out they don't, just as an exhibit of how little they know at that point.Millennials have money to buy, they have saved up longer than any generation before them and many are burdened by college debt (which is a concept I don't understand - who thought that "for profit" education is good for a society, normally you want the best education for the most people, so you can fund the retirement of the older folks through the younger work force - sorry I digress).If you can afford to pay rent, you generally can afford to make a house payment, typically it is even cheaper.Note that buying a home is still cheaper than it was in the years 1990-2008!