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Originally Posted by Tapioca
All relationships involve compromise.
She puts up with your irrational hobbies (like sports cars and sports), she gives your oral sex every once in a while, and she delivers your children. You save a bit of money and put the rest into renting a home she feels is worthy of entertaining people, or you buy that starter home to build your equity.
Or, you treat every decision in life as a financial calculation and cut your ties with your partner. Roam the world, make money, and pay for sex and intimacy when the need arises. Then, hope that when your body starts to give up that you have enough in savings to pay for a nice retirement home with home nurses to tend to your needs until you march into the sunset.
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same mistake as everyone. i thought your agument would have been security of location and a place to really place your roots, not 'build equity'
trust me, i'm building WAY more equity than an equivalent who buy a place right now, rent vs. own the same place (even if said person bought a shittier place, i'd still build more equity based on long term returns of a diversified portfolio vs. long term returns on real estate).
now, a factor is if ppl rent, they blow the rest of their money - not my problem, i can't be responsible for idiots who don't know how to save/invest.
also, if you think women find owning a house impressive, you're after a simpleton woman, my partner finds it much more impressive to have hundreds of thousands of liquid investments for our future together.
different folks, different strokes, i guess