The rising cost of rent

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Renting is not inherently bad. Nor is riding the bus. But neither is owning, or driving a car. The key is to make the right choices for your particular situation -- and to accept that others have different situations, and that those same choices may not be right for the others.

Unfortunately judging other people's choices is a very common thing for people to do. I won't blame it on modern society, either: as far as I can tell, this kind of thing has been happening for thousands of years, possibly longer. So I don't have much hope of human nature changing in this regard, at least not in my lifetime.

I'd say that we're a lot more tolerant of different people than a few hundreds of years ago, where being different in your village would lead to punishment (e.g. being placed in the stocks).