"You're either rooted with high inertia and volatile maintenance costs or you're buying personal flexibility and medium-term expense stability." Owning is a sm

"You're either rooted with high inertia and volatile maintenance costs or you're buying personal flexibility and medium-term expense stability." Owning is a smart place to park money when you're sure you're settling down for a long while and can be a good investment at other times, but renting is "preferable" quite often too. People get very caught up in black and white thinking about this and it leads to a lot of counterproductive decisions and frustration.