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I think the most common reasons people buy a home is because they have kids.

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I think the most common reasons people buy a home is because other people do it.

I think the most common justifications people use to support the buy a home decision is because [insert terrible armchair economic reasoning].


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Not to say there can't be good reasons, but the reasoning process itself is almost always done in such a manner as to lend absolutely no actual merit to the conclusion. More often than not it results in an exercise of justifying a decision that has already been made, and is now in need of support.