It's not only a decent trainer but if the average punter wants to own an aircraft, for the simple pleasure of being in the air, it's one of the easiest, most affordable birds to own. I had a 1972 C150 back about 26 years ago. I sold it for $8000, biggest mistake I ever made, they go for 3x that now.
It was easily the cheapest bird to own and operate I've ever had. and chugging along at 1000' AGL on a calm summer evening, window open, is what pleasure flying is all about. For 90% of the type of flying I do now as I get older and the kids leave the nest, the 150/152 is all I would need.
They are cheap all around: purchase price, maintenance costs, reasonable fuel burn and the cheapest aircraft there is to insure especially for low-time pilots.
I love my Beech but the old 150 could take around the patch at 5.5 gal/hour instead of 10.5 gal/hour.
Mind you back then I weighed 150, I now weigh 200
