Citation
(2002), "Rent or buy?", Work Study, Vol. 51 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ws.2002.07951daa.008
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited
Rent or buy?
Rent or buy?
In the UK, home ownership is the aspiration of most young people. In continental Europe, it is not. Theirs is a culture of rental property. Why the difference? What does it say about the UK? This culture also seems to extend into other forms of "materialism": continental cars are considered much more as transportation devices than as status symbols. They do not have anywhere near the same number of "company cars" as here in the UK. Is this why we seem to have a closer affinity with the USA? Is it more than language?