> You live in a market with $800k houses down the road but your apartment is $1300/mo? Yes that is correct. Ladd's Addition in, Portland, OR. The floor for fix

> You live in a market with $800k houses down the road but your apartment is $1300/mo? Yes that is correct. Ladd's Addition in, Portland, OR. The floor for fixer-upper houses within a half mile might be $500k but I see $800k+ very regularly. I'm sure you can find something to quibble with here though. Somehow in my 40-year life I've always managed to find small, cheap, shitty apartments in good neighborhoods. I guess either I am the luckiest person alive or most people aren't excited to live in small, shitty, and cheap apartments? > But then you go on to claim you have a lot in investments, or something along those lines as it wasn’t clear. Your story’s dots aren’t connecting. I put a few thousand into index funds each month. I could easily buy a house with cash in a place where I'm not excited to live. But why would I? I don't want a house. I like my cheap small shitty apartment because it's in a great neighborhood. My money's growing just fine. I have enough. > And now your justifying your desperation with this flawed idea that renting is somehow cheaper. You're wrong. I said that renting can be an attractive decision despite having no home equity at the end. I understand that owning a home can be an attractive decision as well. I just think that people who are fanatical about how bad a decision renting is are generally wrong.