**In some countries, owning a home rather than renting one is very important for people. ***Why might this be the case? Do you think this is a positive or negative situation?*
- home ownership /homeowner /buying/purchasing a house or an apartment
2. nation
- renter
4. financial status
- evaluate
- perceived
- house prices
- people in the lower middle class or working class
- high-paying job
- doing well financially
- comfortable family life
12. life satisfaction / satisfied with their lives
- mortgage loans
- hundreds of thousands of dollars
- pay their mortgage
