Renting versus Buying.
In Ireland, renting is
socially unacceptable.
That’s what it boils down to. It doesn’t matter where you are in your life, perfect strangers who know nothing about your life situation will cheerfully advise you that
there will never be a better time to buy.
Despite the fact that what I can buy versus what I can rent….means what I can rent is generally better.
But that shouldn’t matter. The point is, Ireland has apparently cast off the shackles – more or less – of being governed by an unelected judgmental elite called the Catholic Church but yet many people still feel the need to
be judgmental about other people’s life choices and
interfere in them wholesale.
So here’s how it works. There is nothing wrong with renting. It is for each individual to make a call. For me, for example, I rent a 3 bedroomed semiD in Dublin City. Or I buy a 1 bedroomed apartment 10 km out. What would you choose?
I don’t care what you’d choose. Point is, I choose the house in the city.
In short terms, if someone comes up to me and says “you should buy now” or “there’ll never be a better time to buy”, I’ll be safe in the knowledge that they are wrong. Because people are still thinking they “know” how it works.
They don’t. I don’t either. But I know how I work and if I buy what I can afford now, I’ll be less happy than I am now.
Is there something wrong with allowing people to make their own decisions in life?
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