There's a something to be said about owning the place you live at, not asking anyone questions about anything. I've rented all my adult life and while it's been

There's a something to be said about owning the place you live at, not asking anyone questions about anything. I've rented all my adult life and while it's been OK, it's definitely not the same. Most sovereign states also give lots of advantages and protections to someone's primary owned home in terms of tax or historically in terms of reparations. If you had money somewhere or gold or whatever after WW2 you probably lost everything, but if your house was razed to the ground in say Warsaw, chances are if you could prove even in a flimsy way (most people lost their paper deeds) you owned it, you got it back later. There's a powerful thing about owning a piece of land that other financial instruments don't have.