Some of you are vultures

StevieJ

neas wrote: »

in all honesty plumbers and other tradesmen were getting a disproportionatly high salary. I mean a graduate gets 20k a year whereas plumbers could easily get more than that... as with the last profession it will get so bad they will knock on people door asking if any work needs doing for chinese style prices... just to earn some money...

. I mean a graduate gets 20k a year whereas plumbers could easily get more than that...

What is that about? :rotfl:Are you for real?

mewbie_2

To be honest - us vultures have been circling this thread for some days now, getting pretty hacked off and waiting for the rotting carcass to finally die.

StevieJ

neas wrote: »

Once upon a time threads like this would be denounced by the general public and HPIers... as madness and silly...Whats a true measure of the crash is that the public are becoming aware . Roll on 2009... the year of recession and house price falls... we as a country need it to realise what it 'worth' something.

Cheering on a recession, How sad is that?

neas

in capitalism you just got to make sure our the vulture and not the food

Davesnave

StevieJ wrote: »

. I mean a graduate gets 20k a year whereas plumbers could easily get more than that...

What is that about? :rotfl:Are you for real?

Guess he might be. My daughter, who also insisted in going through uni without support from home, started on about £17k when she gained her first post. After a couple of years, and one promotion to about £19k, she's just landed a job at £29k, but to achieve that, she's also been working evenings in youth clubs.

So, yes, graduates can get below £20k when they start, and the rest is up to them. (She's one of these public service layabouts, according to another thread on here.)

caveman38

tesuhoha wrote: »

At last someone else who realises whats going on.

I don't think anyone is questioning that your husband is now finding work difficult. They are just pointing out that he most probarly had 20 years when the housing market was buoyant and earned fantastic wages. You say he didn't but we all have our own experiences, and they show us the £80K plumbers / gas fitters.
I like you would like to leave this alone now because after reading your other posts know that you have had other problems and without sounding soppy you sound like a lovely lady.
BUT:
It occurred to me after reading your opening thread and reading the other posts.
If the HPI had continued and your 23 year old daughter had passed her degree. She maybe have worked in a lab for say Beechams and may have only been on £25K. I bet in a couple of years you would have been saying that she ought to have been given the oppurtunity of buying her own home. She had worked hard and got her degree but the way house prices are these days she cannot afford it.
I bet that youwould have had a different stance on things.

chucky

StevieJ wrote: »

Cheering on a recession, How sad is that?

very, very sad

mewbie_2

StevieJ wrote: »

Cheering on a recession, How sad is that?

Presumably not as sad as being depressed and scared by it. I wish I could cheer it on, but so far just managed a feeble hurrah, and tbh that's just me trying to be big and brave. I am actually scared sh.tless.

tesuhoha

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Who said the recession isn't affecting me, it is.

Thats very bad luck about the bouncing cheques, but the problems you are in isn't due to just them is it? You've got a high mortgage and debts.
You don't want kissy words...... so you've been living beyond your means then?

Then because its going wrong, you come on here and call us vultures, I'm seeing it now.

If you call having a mortgage that you can afford only if you don't lose your job living beyond their means then yes. In that case anyone who has a mortgage is living beyond their means. I don't want your stupid phrase, kissy kissy words, but I think you are being particularly nasty. I did not post because of my own personal circumstances, I posted because I feel sorry for the people who are losing their houses. If that is beyond your comprehension and you just can't understand my motives then I'm sorry but you are using my personal situation against me because of what I posted.

Have you got a mortgage? Would you be able to afford to live if your business folded? TBH you sound like one of the people I was originally talking about because you are smug and gloating about other people's misfortune, including mine.

chucky

mewbie wrote: »

Presumably not as sad as being depressed and scared by it. I wish I could cheer it on, but so far just managed a feeble hurrah, and tbh that's just me trying to be big and brave. I am actually scared sh.tless.

but this is the thing Mewbie - nobody really know what is around the corner and the full scope of what could happen.

how can anyone be happy about it and actually say they want it to happen.

it's very, very sad and probably ignorant of not understanding the enormity of theeconmic issues around us.

plus i'm a hyena!!!