Americans often move home from one city to another. Finding a new place to live in not difficult, except when movie to a very large city. It is usually possible to find an apartment to rent one day and to move into it the next.
About 65% of US homes are owned bye the people who live in them. The costs of buying and selling are relatively low. People thinking of buying a house ask a real estate agent, or realtor, to show them several house. When they decide on one. they dis cuss on price with the people who are selling it, an then arrange a mortgage ( =loan) with a bank.
People look for different kinds of home at different points in their lives. Student and young professional people tend to live in apartment near city centres. When people get married and have children they often move out of the city and buy a house in a suburb. In most suburbs it is possible to tell how much money people have by the size of their houses and yards. In some parts of the US it is also possible to guess the racial discrimination, there is still segregation a many cities since white people tend to live in some areas and black people in others.