The renter's advantage
I have been focusing on renters on Wednesdays, so send me an email if you have renter's topics you want me to cover.
The renters that are most noticeable to me are the student-aged and young adult renters who seem to swarm into metro Boston late every summer. I know there are many more renters here other than the transient young hordes. However, I was surprised by the census data information quoted in Newsgeography that says that 74.7 percent of American-born people who live in Massachusetts were born in Massachusetts. I thought our Commonwealth’s residents more transient.
I wonder how many of the renters who are reading this blog were born in Massachusetts. For that matter, how many were born in the United States?
If only about a quarter of American-born Massachusetts residents have come from other states, are they all right here near Boston?
Did you “grow where you were planted,” or did you come her from somewhere else? I am a native of the northeast, but not of Massachusetts. My husband is a native of the rust belt. We have both spent the vast majority of our adult life in Massachusetts. Neither of us went to college in greater Boston.
I fit the stereotype of a person who enjoyed the geographic freedom of renting. When I chose where I wanted to stay, I bought. The big advantage of renting is the temporary commitment to apartment, town, state or even country. While a renter, I moved to go back to school, moved because I felt like it, moved to advance my career by taking a distant job. It’s easier to leave when you rent. Nothing to sell. Does that influence your choice to rent?
