In Australia you are often treated poorly as a tenant. Rent increases every 6 months, 60 day eviction notice if the landlord wants to do anything (sell, paint the walls, let their cousin stay there, consider selling it...). You can't do any modifications or get longer than a 12 month lease.

Also, there is a collective paranoia about missing out, of tumbling off the 'property ladder' and neither you or your children ever escaping wage slave poverty.