@blue25
It's interesting to note the (slightly aggressive) posts from some renters apparently trying to prove that renting is better than owning. Most homeowners are just happy to have their own home and get on with life. It's often the renters who make it into an issue!
Oh, and I wonder why that IS?
Couldn't be anything to do with the fact that some people who are 'homeowners' think they are a cut above people who rent, like the renters are failures in life, and that they look down on them like they are something they just stepped in could it?!
Jesus fucking wept. 
@LadyBoyXy is correct when they say that there is a certain smugness and air of superiority amongst some homebuyers, and this 'I am better than you' attitude, when all they have that I don't have, is fuck loads of debt, and a constant bill for repairs and maintenance that never ends. And as I was a homeowner for 18 years, (and have also rented privately and via social housing,) I am qualified to say all this.
bonkers
Being a home owner isn't great. Yes we have a small mortgage that will be paid off in a few year BUT we have a defunct boiler, dodgy wiring and a bathroom that leaks. We also have smashed windows with mould they need replacing.
@IfNot
Haha! I have LITERALLY had all of those things as a private renter, bar the smashed windows. Half my furniture got ruined because the landlord wouldn't get a damp proofing course and stop the mould caused by riding damp. Other stuff been ruined by leaks. I was told "claim it on your insurance"...even though my contents insurance has a 300 excess AND a 300 water damage charge.. (very usual these days).
I can't believe that you are making a comparison to the homeowner you quoted. You can just up and leave private let, whereas a homeowner with a property that is costing 10's of 1000's in repairs can't!!! And they will ALSO have excess on the insurance, but the difference is YOU don't have a bill for 1000's and 1000's for repairs, and YOU don't have to worry about forking out 2-3 grand if the boiler packs up, and YOU don't have to fork out multiple 1000's if the roof blows off etc etc etc....
I know a few people who have mortgages with only 5-8 years left, and are costing only 200-300 a month, but they are shitloads in debt (a few people as much as £35-50K,) because they have borrowed money over the years, (sometimes against the house,) to keep up with the repairs and maintenance on the house!
One couple I know paid off their mortgage in full in mid 2015, and have spent £25K on it since (via bank loans,) doing essential repairs on it, as nothing was done to it since the mid 1990's as they could never afford to do anything. So as a homeowner, it's never ending!
Many years ago (pre mid 1980's,) being a homeowner was fine, but since then, house prices have skyrocketed, repairs and maintenance costs have soared, wages are less than half what they were 40 years ago, and you can't do many jobs in the house yourself (even if you knew how!) because insurance won't pay out if something goes wrong with what you have 'repaired,'
Yep, I have been on all sides of the fence, and give me social housing any day. Lovely little home, nice area, great neighbours, less than £300 a month rent, all the repairs done (sometimes within several DAYS,) lots of surplus income, and no stress.
I am actually OK with the (few) homeowners on my street looking down their nose at me, as they trot off to the bank (in their 1997 vauxhall corsa,) for another loan to repair their roof, and put a new boiler in, whilst I trot off out to book our holiday to Canada, in our 2015 registered Toyota.
Who's being smug now? Oh yeah me...... So shoot me.