It's also possible to rent a house or own an apartment. Most of those advantages and disadvantages are about the form of ownership.

Apartment hopping is another issue legislation could fix. Here in Germany, it's really difficult for a landlord to throw out a tenant. You can only do so for a very short list of acceptable reasons, and even with such a reason, it can take easily half a year, if the tenant refuses. 3 months to cancel the contract, and another couple of months to get court approval to have the police throw them out.

You can still do apartment-hopping, if you want to move around a lot. But you won't be forced to.