Your house provides value for 30, 50, 100 years (to you or whoever you sell it to). Do your student loans? They might, or they might not, but there are plenty o

Your house provides value for 30, 50, 100 years (to you or whoever you sell it to). Do your student loans? They might, or they might not, but there are plenty of cases where they would not (degree programs that are not economically lucractive). You might have 30 years of enjoyment from your art history degree even if you never get an art history career to pay the bills, which is fine, if you understand what you are buying.