Having your own home results in less happiness than expected. Swiss scientists from the University of Basel came to such an amazing conclusion.
Which of us would not like to have our own house with a large plot where we can gather friends or relatives for barbecue and generally feel like a part of nature. Owning your own home is the dream of so many people who put such a home much higher than an apartment. Researchers from Basel decided to find out whether buyers of detached houses actually observed a sharp satisfaction with the standard of living after moving to a new place of residence.
Scientists have calculated the formula of happiness
All respondents were asked to rate their current level of happiness on a scale from 0 to 10 before moving and predict what the rate would be in another 5 years. The results of the survey showed that although homeownership did increase happiness levels, it was not to the extent predicted by would-be homeowners themselves. It turns out that people are not very good at predicting what will make them happier.
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There is a so-called adaptation to reality, which reduces the degree of satisfaction with life. It seems to us that the possession of some object will make us incredibly satisfied, but when this happens, we get used to it very quickly. When predicting future satisfaction after moving into their own home, people completely ignore this adaptation. At the same time, status-oriented people, for whom money and success were especially important, overestimated the degree of their satisfaction after buying a house compared to those for whom this status was not so important. (READ MORE) 
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an institution of higher education in Basel, oldest university in Switzerland. The Academic Ranking of World Universities in 2022 placed the University of Basel in 87th position