On: IKEA Redesigns Its Bestsellers

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Universal rent increases.

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It's common both to own an apartment and rent a single-family house? I'm probably missing some US cultural assumptions.

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No, if you live in an apartment your typical experience right now is one of rent increases pricing you out of your neighborhood - if you owned a home this wouldnt be a problem. So living in an apartment kinda has an implicit expiration - your time is up once you get priced out.

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My point what I tried to make above -- why the assumption you're renting if you live in an apartment? Some naming convention I'm not familiar with that implies renting?

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From reading other snippets - yes! Funnily enough, to me apartment exclusively refers to rentals, you would call it a condo if you purchased it but the connotations of condo to me are 'some one with too much money paying too much for too little'.

Too funny.

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And why is it assumed that living in apartment is renting?

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Generally the colloquial way to refer to an owned unit is as a "condo" whereas an "apartment" is assumed to be renting

It's more complicated than that but it's basically how it works in normal conversation