Also, most europeans tend to settle down, and not move across the continent every few years, so buying instead of renting makes even more sense, since you'll be staying in that house probably for the rest of your life.
This is geoblocked in slovenia, but the google summary says:
> Using 2007 ACS data, it is estimated that a person in the United States can expect to move 11.7 times in their lifetime
If we neglect the student ages for those without student housing or living nearby, most people here move from their parents to their own place, maybe again if they're renting, and then to a "better place" if they can afford one later on. 11.7 times is way above what most people here do.
80 years of life, 11.7 movings, 6.8 years between moving. Realistically more often than that during younger years, since I'd guess retired people move less often.
You didn’t address the “across the continent every few years” part. Moving frequently on average in no way indicates they are moving across the country every few years.
Even if they don't move half a continent away, they'd still need to buy a house, furnish it, fix a bunch of stuff, then live in it for <7 years, fix it up again (atleast cosmetically), sell it, buy a new one, all the hassle of moving and new furniture because not all of the old stuff fits, new fixes of stuff that was just cosmetically fixed, and in <7 years again.
First, "out of state" doesn't mean "across the continent" (though that is more likely in Seattle or SF, since they're rather isolated from out of state population centers).
Second, that is not evidence in the slightest of people doing this "every few years". Hell, most people don't want to move locally that often, let alone an expensive and very disruptive long distance move.
What's the source for that? Doesn't sound right when I've seen claims such as "nearly 72% of Americans live in or close to the city where they grew up" [1] and "the typical adult lives only 18 miles from his or her mother" [2].
Assuming you are posting in good faith, the irony to me is that this whole discussion is even happening, stemming from the post:
> Where the hell are people "moving across the continent every few years"?
Because the answer is right here, on this very website. They are asking us* to prove our existence.
Perhaps it'd be more correct to call it incongruity. Perhaps also more correct to have replied directly to the "Where the hell...?" comment as opposed to this one. I hope this isn't a segue into an "Alanis Morrissette isn't ironic" internet conversation.
