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Perhaps there's something peculiar to where you live, but I've never felt I needed to buy a house, and I have kids and pets, and I'm not shy about putting nails
by Luc 13y ago
Perhaps there's something peculiar to where you live, but I've never felt I needed to buy a house, and I have kids and pets, and I'm not shy about putting nails in the walls either.
'Brits buy, Germans rent' http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/mar/19/brits-buy-germans-rent http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/mar/19/brits-buy-germa...
- hackerboos 13y agoThere's no security in the rental market in the UK. You can be out of your home or have large rent increases with very little notice. In contrast with Germany which has strong rights for tenants including gasp rent control which seems to be hated here on HN.
- VLM 13y agoNo lease contracts in .uk? Do car leases work that way in the .uk, like if the car mfgr decides to sell the car out from underneath you even if you're up to date on payments they just send the repo guy out to take it without warning?
- hackerboos 13y agoCars leases are different rental leases. In the UK rental leases are very weak.