Property News · September 2, 2017

I’ve given up my dream of home ownership and I’m fine about it


Renting gives me freedom. I love knowing I can up sticks at a moment’s notice and it’s someone else’s problem if the boiler breaks downWhen I was a kid, I thought that owning an urbanesque bachelorette pad by the time I reached my mid-20s was simply a rite of passage. My favourite TV and film heroines Hilary Banks (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) and Bridget Jones managed it with creative jobs, so I reckoned I would be all right too.But I am soon to hit 25 and have realised that I am no closer to that dream than when I was 12. Instead, I am further away – so far from that dream, in fact, that it feels like a mirage. But instead of trying to exist within a system that isn’t built for me, I have decided to kiss goodbye to the dream of home ownership and actually I feel totally fine about it. Honestly. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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