{"id":65242,"date":"2017-09-02T12:45:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T05:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ive-given-up-my-dream-of-home-ownership-and-im-fine-about-it\/"},"modified":"2017-09-02T12:49:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T05:49:38","slug":"ive-given-up-my-dream-of-home-ownership-and-im-fine-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ive-given-up-my-dream-of-home-ownership-and-im-fine-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve given up my dream of home ownership and I\u2019m fine about it"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRenting gives me freedom. I love knowing I can up sticks at a moment\u2019s notice and it\u2019s someone else\u2019s problem if the boiler breaks downWhen I was a kid, I thought that owning an urbanesque bachelorette pad by the time I\u00a0reached my mid-20s was simply a\u00a0rite 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\u00a0reckoned 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 \u2013 so far from that dream, in fact, that it feels like a mirage. But instead of trying to exist within a system that isn\u2019t built for me, I have decided to kiss goodbye to the dream of home ownership and actually\u00a0I feel totally fine about it. Honestly. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Renting gives me freedom. 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