William Shakespeare

What is the meaning of buying a house?

To buy or not to buy a house, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to rent and suffer the slings and arrows of unathotized alterations or to take arms against a sea of landlords and by opposing end them. To buy, to own, no more - and by owning we say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. To buy, to own - to own, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub. For in that ownership of a house, what dreams may come? What joys? What sorrows? For who would bear the cries and sleepless nights of owning a fixer-upper, the oppressor's wrong, the pride of fools, the pangs of housing market uncertainty, the insolence of real estate agents, and the spurns that patient renters of the unworthy take? When they themselves might their quietus make with a security deposit? Who would bear to grunt and sweat under a weary mortgage, but that the dread of something after foreclosure, the undiscovered country from whose bourn no homeowner returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those flaws we have than fly to others that we know not of? Thus, conscience doth make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pitch and questionable repairs with this regard their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.