Is it better to rent or buy a home?

>when I sell my house I get the money back.
mm mm mm no no no

Rent is almost always better if you live in a first world country.

dunno. here in spain its actually better to buy.

Rent. People will say buy but it is a meme, buying makes you owner of the property if anything is wrong you have to fix it. Total cost of ownership is much higher than renting. Especially with the inflated housing prices right now

Rent. Invest the savings.

Rent money is a liability but you're outside the market. If housing prices crash you're gonna pay less rent so you're up. The thing is a permanent housing crash is extremely unlikely. World's projected population is of 11 billion by 2100 or so, that's almost 50% more people needing a place to live.
Imho the best option is to buy land and homes in small towns where it's less expensive. Soon enough we'll have VR, delivery drones, internet education and widespread work from home as businesses become more and more digital and people will realize there's way more cons than pros in living in a huge overpriced city, causing a great influx of families to the countryside and smaller towns

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HOUSE CONNEEEEEEEEEEEECT
But yeah...
If you live anywhere useful housing is inflated to all fuck, and so are all of the services attached to property ownership. You're basically getting jewed. As you get further away from work housing costs do fall off but then you're stuck with the long commute and the costs and inefficiencies associated with that.
It used to be normal for some people to save up money and buy a home without a mortgage. Those people are the ones who stand to gain. Most home owners I know are constantly mortgaged to the tits just keeping their houses maintained.

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OP do the math, i you buy a home for 100k and get a mortgage @ 5% for 30 years you pay 193,338. When i hear these fuckers sell their home for 250K, they say stupid shit like we made 150k off that house. they fail to look at reality and only made 60k over 30 years ffs. its an example

if youre poor and need to do things on a budget and renting is cheaper and youve shopped around and found something reasonable, rent

long term and if you can afford it (and no spending too far beyond your means), buying is better because your house can be an asset. and if you live in a non shithole people would want to buy your house.

Take the van pill.
3 grand will get you a used cargo van. Another 1 grand and you can convert it into a micro RV. You lose economy of scale with food since you can't store as much and you spend more on fuel, and you need a gym membership (which are cheap) so you have somewhere to shower but all of your income is gravy.

Oh I guess every few years your van becomes an irreparable mess, in which case you buy another van and build another home.