I live in Atlanta, Georgia. I've grown up here all of my life, and I hope to move away into a nicer area further out in the country, at some point. I'm tired of the city...it's not 'convenient' by any means...6 million people packed into 29 counties is far from convenient. lol But anyway...

I see lots of those signs that people put up on the side of the road, advertising for housing and such. Only these are professional developer signs...advertising condo's. Condominiums and 'townhomes' are just a fancy way of saying "spiffed up apartments" to me. I guess I'm wondering why anyone making enough money to buy one of these....is stupid enough to do it? I live in the city...I understand the 'convenience' and such...and I see that when they are closer to some major area/attraction, of course they cost a lot more.
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But realistically...$900,000 could buy a pretty big, new house on a ranch, in a peaceful country area. A house with no walls that are joined to some other neighbor's walls, apart from just the people living there in the house with you, of course. Why do people like condos? I don't get it. Many of them around here seem to prefer to rent for extremely high payments each month; sometimes twice or more what our mortgage is on our house - and we're buying our house. When they move...they'll have nothing out of all of those thousands of dollars they have paid in rent. So...why do people do this?