Renters paying mortgage holders to pay their mortgage in exchange for conceptual gains like "freedom"

We've been there for a long fucking time

If you're in a market where landlords can charge the full mortgage you desperately need more housing. Rent around here costs slightly more than the interest on the mortgage.

I don’t think there’s anywhere in the UK where a mortgage is more than the rent for the same property. Renters are generally the breadwinners in their landlord’s families.

Well in that case, yeah, I can't imagine any reason you would rent. But in my neck of the woods renting a place is a little more than half the cost of the equivalent mortgage on the same property.

You would rent because you’d lack the deposit and income a bank would require of you for the same property.

Now that I have a mortgage, it’s much less than the rent I was paying for a similar property. This is the case in most developed cities on Earth.

Where on earth is this land of beneficent landlords? Do you live in Hobbiton or on the island from Lost

Every city is like this