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I don't really look down at anyone for renting an apartment. Owning a house (lol) can have its challenges. I saw everything my father has been through when he was a homeowner. He now owns his home after paying off the mortgage 24 years later. He last told me he was saving up to deal with the chimney. How much is that? North of 5k ~ 15k. Yeah, no thanks.
There is no way I would be able to survive as a homeowner. Sure, the privacy is great and having to do everything you want without anyone complaining and getting in your face about it, is grand. But to me it is just one trade off.
In an apartment, you don't have to do your own maintenance and maintenance is always on the house. You don't have to really worry a lot about some things if you truly feel you can't wing it as a homeowner. I accept that I'm going to be apartment hopping for the rest of my life and with a very soured relationship with my father, there's no chance I'm getting his home willed to me, not that I'd want it anyways.
The only thing I would want mandated for all apartments to have, is to have all walls completely as close to being sound-proofed as possible. That way, nobody is at eachother's throats over noise.
It's also possible to rent a house or own an apartment. Most of those advantages and disadvantages are about the form of ownership.
Apartment hopping is another issue legislation could fix. Here in Germany, it's really difficult for a landlord to throw out a tenant. You can only do so for a very short list of acceptable reasons, and even with such a reason, it can take easily half a year, if the tenant refuses. 3 months to cancel the contract, and another couple of months to get court approval to have the police throw them out.
You can still do apartment-hopping, if you want to move around a lot. But you won't be forced to.