>http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2008/12/11/homeownership-makes-you-fat-and-unhappy?tid=true
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>Homeownership Makes You Fat and Unhappy
From this link:
>In fact, if Americans could be persuaded that rent payments aren't
>"wasted money" and that owning often makes less financial sense than
>renting, I think the rate of homeownership might, happily, drop
>substantially. But it's not going to happen. The ideal of
>homeownership is deeply embedded in the American psyche, and any
>datapoints which don't fit into that ideal are automatically discarded.
I've seen numbers comparing renting and owning that show advantages to renting. I think I saw them here but I can never find them when I go looking. Anyone know what I'm talking about?