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And they still have the gall to say socialism was bad for Eastern Europe (europe.pub)

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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The debt aversion, i strongly agree with. The preference for renting, not at all. Especially when renting in Germany does not come with a furnished apartment, and you need to drag your entire furniture and kitchen with you to every new place you move into. Whoever thought that was a good idea deserves the gulag.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Maybe I have a different perspective as an immigrant, but even though renting is so impractical (moving furniture and especially the kitchen, 3 months rent as a damage deposit, nothing to call your own in the end, etc.), I have understood that society in general still prefers it at least equally to ownership, and this going back some decades as well. Germans also just accept a lot of really inconvienient things because "es ist einfach mal so." But maybe I am completely off base. I also live in a more expensive area in terms of cost of living and home prices which does change behaviour.