POV: Everyone Thinks You're Behind for Renting — You Have $1 Million

It's 7:40 on a Sunday and you're watching a machine turn that you do not own, two streets from a flat you have rented for twenty six years. Everyone you know bought. You were asked about it for twenty three years by people who were completely certain, and not one of them ever asked you the question that actually decided it. This is a story, not financial advice. The 7% return, 4% house appreciation, 3% rent inflation and 6.5% mortgage rate in it are assumptions used to make the arithmetic legible, not predictions, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Renting is not better than buying — that is the opposite of the point. #RentVsBuy #FinancialFreedom #QuietWealth