> Almost 70 percent of Americans own their own home But at what cost? To own a home, but to be grindingly poor in all other respects? To barely be able to make

> Almost 70 percent of Americans own their own home But at what cost? To own a home, but to be grindingly poor in all other respects? To barely be able to make ends meet, to see retirement as a pipe dream, or only achievable in the final few years of life? The Vienna model looks like paradise. And this, coming from someone who _does_ own a home, and from that, can see opportunities that have been taken from me by stratospheric home valuations and insane levels of rent.