I personally can not break free of the home-owner psychology. I guess it’s the whole watching your kids grow up in the same stable environment thing.

The stable environment comes from the parents, not the box that the parents live in. You should be able to stay in the same neighborhood while your kids are in school even if you have to rent some different places. It could even be fun for your family if you have a positive outlook.

The “renters are losers” meme is designed to program you to be a good little mortgage/property-tax paying, Home Depot/Lowe’s purchasing consumatron. Most of these “homeowners” aren’t going to own their homes when they kick the bucket anyway, they’ll die owing a balance.

It’s just like Pahluniak wrote in “Fight Club”; you are not your house. You are not your car.

Home equity loans are the new credit cards and Duh-mericans are hooked. Don’t expect that to change anytime soon…