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For my twenties, the biggest cost would have been opportunity. I was able to switch jobs multiple times in different states before meeting my fiancee. Renting a
by havblue 4mo ago
For my twenties, the biggest cost would have been opportunity. I was able to switch jobs multiple times in different states before meeting my fiancee. Renting allowed me to be far more adventurous than I would have been.
- QuiEgo 4mo agoThis. So this. When you're 20 something and you can pack your 1 bedroom apartment worth of Ikea furniture into the smallest U-Haul, or just sell it on Craig's list and start over at the next place, renting is awesome. When you have a house full of crap you've collected over 20 years and live somewhere you carefully picked for your kids to have a good school, the whole equation flips and you're willing to accept the downsides the author calls out, to give your family stability.