Do yourself a favor. Imagine you're a young couple starting out in the GTA or the Lower Mainland. You have no inheritance, but your household income is a very respectable 130k (stable jobs, but require being in a large city because that's the reality in a lot of fields [in the same way that it's hard to find farming work downtown). You have one kid and another on the way.

What would you do under these conditions TODAY? (i.e. Don't talk about what worked 10 or 20 or 30 years ago when conditions were VERY different.) How would you put a roof over your family's head while keeping commute times to under 2 hours a day? Because renting allows this in some cases where buying does not - and the difference in cost can be very striking too.

There is a systemic problem with housing affordability. When you look at why prices are high and see how so much of the cost is policy/government interference driven (i.e. not free market), you can understand why a growing # of younger people are upset.