Anna Rosling Rönnlund – You Don’t Always Have to Buy a Home

<p><strong>BIO:</strong> Anna Rosling Rönnlund is a Swedish designer who, with her husband Ola Rosling, developed Trendalyzer, interactive software for visualizing statistical information.</p><p><strong>STORY:</strong> Anna and her husband bought a home after moving to the US. A while later, they had to move back to Sweden, so they decided to sell the house. This was during the financial crisis that hit the real estate market badly. So the couple lost a lot of money after the sale.</p><p><strong>LEARNING:</strong> Keep your costs low. You don’t always have to buy a home.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote class="ql-align-center"><strong>“Spending time doing things you love is the best investment ever.”</strong></blockquote><blockquote class="ql-align-center">Anna Rosling Rönnlund</blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>Guest profile</h2><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaroslingronnlund/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Anna Rosling Rönnlund</strong></a> is a Swedish designer who, with her husband Ola Rosling, developed Trendalyzer, interactive software for visualizing statistical information. In 2005, with statistician and father-in-law Hans Rosling, she co-founded the <a href="https://www.gapminder.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gapminder Foundation</a>, where she serves as vice president for design and usability. In 2016, she announced <a href="https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dollar Street</a>, a website that imagines a street of homes to help visualize how people of varying cultures and incomes live around the world. In 2017, she collaborated with Hans Rosling on his book, <a href="https://amzn.to/3YhAfxx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Factfulness</em></a>.</p><h2>Worst investment ever</h2><p>Anna and her husband moved to the US, where they were both working at Google. They decided to look for a place to stay close to the office. The couple had sold their apartment in Sweden, so they had some cash to purchase a house.