You could do as I did
Buy somewhere to live in ( with mortgage ) long term cheaper plus you get any capital appreciation. Also if you run over timescale it’s not an issue .
This has worked well for us .
Rent would of been 800pcm . Purchasing ( with a 40k deposit ) makes our interest only mortgage at 300pcm . Property is worth about 30k more than we paid for it after 3 years .