Posted on 12/04/2023 10:24:06 AM PST by george76
No, renters, you are not imagining those grey hairs springing up on your head – your living situation is actually making you older, faster.
A landmark study out of the University of Adelaide and University of Essex has found that living in a private rental property accelerates the biological ageing process by more than two weeks every year.
The research found renting had worse effects on biological age than being unemployed (adding 1.4 weeks per year), obesity (adding 1 week per year), or being a former smoker (adding about 1.1 weeks).
University of Adelaide Professor of Housing Research Emma Baker said private renting added “about two-and-a-half weeks of aging” per year to a person’s biological clock, compared to those who own their homes.
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if you have your lease extended, you still are living in that slight state of kind of unknowingness, really not quite secure if your lease is actually going to be extended or not.”
“We think that that is one of the things that’s contributing to loss of years, effectively.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
ha! not with today’s interest rates...
Nonsense!
Correlation is not causation.
“Research finds that living under oppressive governments ages you faster than smoking, obesity and a nagging wife...”
There, fixed it!
Bull Cheese.
Nobody “owns” property. I pay thousands of dollars in property taxes each year that proves that.
“You will own nothing and like it.”
Probably why the WEF wants everyone crammed into small apartment cubes in their 15 minute cities.
I believe this 100%. People who rent, particularly in older age, have as a group been less successful in life. And people who are less successful in life generally have worse personal habits (smoking, overeating, etc.) than those who ARE successful in life. It all makes perfect sense. Its not the fact that they rent that makes them less healthy. Its a function of their overall habits.
I am sure the study didn’t correct for all the things associated with renting that are not intrinsic to renting. Divorced status, lower income, urban living, no car, less family, bad credit, inability to save, frequent moves, etc.
Cutting a check every month to a landlord instead of a bank, and being limited in what you do to your living quarters and getting no equity by itself should not decrease your life expectancy. Association is NOT causality.
I knew there was a downside to not doing yard work or applying pesticides!
Apparently, liberals think if they can tie something to health than that trumps any other argument. The thrust here is that if the all-loving state is your landlord, then people will be happier and healthier therefore all private landlords need to go. Whoohoo! Chaulk up another win for socialism!
But chopping off people’s sex organs, that’s “affirming.” I suspect that removes more productive life from the affected individuals than all the other causes of premature aging.
Incidentally, if the organs you’re born with make no difference, then why is cutting them off “affirming?”
B.S. No demonstration of cause and effect and lack of looking at possible corellation with other factors that “renters” have in common with other “faster aging” folks.
I think the problem is the causation aspect, which you do mention in your last sentence. I bet a wealthy person that rents wouldn’t be impacted at all.
Essentially, this is really “being poorer ages you faster”.
Paying taxes does not mean you don’t own the property
I disagree. Your property is held at ransom and sold to someone else if you don’t pay. That doesn’t sound like owning something to me.
Then how can corrupt government seize your property at gun point if ya don't pay them?
As far as renting and buying, I’ve done plenty of both. I prefer buying.
But to assume that signing a 30-year contract with farcical numbers on it, along with committing to all the future taxes and upkeep, is somehow not stressful, is ludicrous.
Being an adult is hard sometimes, for everyone.
Correlation is not causation.
Headline is sensationalistic.
Rent combined with lousy income and rampant inflation — yeah, that’ll grey your hair.
“A landmark study”
The re$ult? More $tudy needed.
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