> There is a thing I would like to buy called "having my kid grow up in a stable environment in a nice town with a nice school" that I would probably pay $5M fo

> There is a thing I would like to buy called "having my kid grow up in a stable environment in a nice town with a nice school" that I would probably pay $5M for. Which is fair, and makes total sense, but to GP's point, there are people for which renting an apartment does make more sense. Example: I'm single and rent a 2 bedroom apartment. Every time I've run the numbers on buying a house in a similar area of town, it ends up costing me more because I'm buying things I do not want (a yard, a garage, extra rooms, etc).