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I've always rented, and always been happy renting. It's never (or almost never) been about not having the money to buy. A lot of what makes buying a house work or not has to do with what you want to do with your life, and how you want to spend your time. Your values.
Some people love having domestic projects. It's a form of nesting. Building a conservatory. Fitting a kitchen. Lagging the boiler. Endless projects: always something more to be done. Then they sell the house they've done all the work on and start again on another one.
You can't really do this when you rent. Well, you can, but it's unusual. IThe usual thing is to move into a flat you like and keep it that way, or make sure the landlord keeps it that way.
A lot of the horror stories about renting are really horror stories about not having much money. If your landlord thinks he can fuck you over because you're penniless, he might be tempted. If he's already spoken to your city lawyer on the phone to talk through the lease he'll think long and hard before acting against your interests. Poverty is intrinsically bad; renting, not so.