Oh in these lands no one is going to look down on you if you rent. I have never seen any type or argument over renting vs buying being bad or good.
Housing is expensiiiiive.
Buying a house takes MONEY. And time. You will be probably paying for it for 20 years or so.
Renting is the obvious short term choice and far more feasible than having your own house unless you have a solid job. Soooo...
If you have the money, yes you, f*cking oligarch, you buy it at once (f*cking oligarchs being the 5 wealthiest families here, who also get most of the country's income :mad
For average Joe's middle class mofos (which is about almost everyone) renting or getting on a 20 year payment plan to buy.
For the lower income families, government programs to opt for a small household. Otherwise..
well, they make it work....illegally most of the time, but those illegal housings built out of whatever you can find and in whatever unoccupied piece of land they can get, usually end up as parts of the city after a while after the government has charged a small fee for the land.
This is mostly in the peripheral areas of the urban centers.