Some of you are vultures

tesuhoha

caveman38 wrote: »

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.

Maybe you are right and I am trying to leave it alone but I feel I have to reply to the sometimes extremely unpleasant things that people are saying. The thing with this recession everyone is vulnerable and I feel sorry for everyone who has lost their job. For people to say that someone is living beyond their means when they have been managing their finances and had things planned out for the future and did not expect to lose their job, well let me just say I hope it doesn't happen to them. I did not foretell this a year ago. We are not as badly off as some, and I feel sorry for those people. I have also said I'm sorry for FTBs.

DirectDebacle

Funny I couldn't find the £90k a year plumber on here. Maybe the O.N.S. have messed up again.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/best-paid-jobs

They are on around £25485 a year so those of you that have been paying plumbers £200-250 a day should perhaps thinking about joining a money saving site.You would probably receive good advice on how to get your jobs done at realistic prices.:D

mewbie_2

chucky wrote: »

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!!!

We agree of course. When I say "I wish I could cheer it on" let me just make it crystal clear. I mean I wish I could be happy at the thought of it, as some people appear to be, because then I would be less scared and more happy. I think its important sometimes to make absolutely sure its clear.

I am not just worried about myself. Well Ok then just myself. But I care what happens to others. Well OK then I am not that fussed. (I hope the effing smiley brigade get theirs).

No seriously. Just trying to make a joke because tbh otherwise the whole thing would be far too depressing. There's not a lot of fun to be had if we all log in and tell each other how awful it is all the time - is there?

neas

the recession has been coming for a couple of years.... we as a country have been outsourced by other contries... we got a 'realignment' of lifestyle coming i think.

Better to get it over now than in 10 years when HPI would be even worse.

caveman38

DirectDebacle wrote: »

Funny I couldn't find the £90k a year plumber on here. Maybe the O.N.S. have messed up again.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/best-paid-jobs

They are on around £25485 a year so those of you that have been paying plumbers £200-250 a day should perhaps thinking about joining a money saving site.You would probably receive good advice on how to get your jobs done at realistic prices.:D

Are you for real mate. Where do you hail from, if you beleive those figures you need to get out more.
Taxi Drivers £13,000 _ they earn that in 3 months.
Dentists £31,000 - my one has a house in Chigwell and sends his 3 children to Bancroft shool, so treble that figure at least.
Wise up.

DirectDebacle

caveman38 wrote: »

Are you for real mate. Where do you hail from, if you beleive those figures you need to get out more.
Taxi Drivers £13,000 _ they earn that in 3 months.
Dentists £31,000 - my one has a house in Chigwell and sends his 3 children to Bancroft shool, so treble that figure at least.
Wise up.

Real enough not to be so stupid as to pay a plumber £200 a day. These are presumably national averages and not representative of the chat in your local. Send your latest accurately researched figures to the O.N.S. It is their data, not mine.

caveman38

DirectDebacle wrote: »

Real enough not to be so stupid as to pay a plumber £200 a day. These are presumably national averages and not representative of the chat in your local. Send your latest accurately researched figures to the O.N.S. It is their data, not mine.

You haven't answered the question. Do you beleive all the figures quoted on your example site.
Am I wrong then that London taxi drivers earn £50K+, am I wrong that my dentist must earn treble the £31K quoted as his childrens school fees are £34K a year and he lives in a £700K house.
Have you had work done by tradesmen or are you just saying you wouldn't pay them those rates.
I think you are a dreamer. I know my figures are correct, I know these people.
You quote me salaries of people you know and not from web sites.

izzybusy23

tesuhoha wrote: »

I am shocked at the way a lot of you are laughing and rubbing your hands with glee at the house price crashes. Don't you realise that there are a lot of ordinary people who have lost everything? For you to be able to buy a repossession means financial ruin for some other unfortunate person and they have lost everything including their home through the sheer bad luck of trying to buy at the wrong time.

This person no doubt paid more for their house than the knock down price that you will pay so why do you deserve to have it rather than them? You are profiting off the back of other people's misfortune. You are trying to make out that everyone who has bought in the past is full of greed and is trying to price first time buyers out of the market. This is not true. There are many ordinary people who have struggled with mortgages for years.

This all gives me the uncomfortable feeling that there is going to be a hpc bloodbath in the next few months. Don't get me wrong I feel sorry for first time buyers but there seems to be a lot of opportunistic greed on this forum.

YAWN........ whatever... and you weren't doing the same when house prices were going up at ridiculous prices then huh????? :rolleyes:

Oh and a very merry christmas to you. :beer:

tesuhoha

izzybusy23 wrote: »

YAWN........ whatever... and you weren't doing the same when house prices were going up at ridiculous prices then huh????? :rolleyes:

Oh and a very merry christmas to you. :beer:

No, I wasn't actually. Are you celebrating because I'm going to have a rotten Christmas? Nice.

mewbie_2

tesuhoha wrote: »

No, I wasn't actually. Are you celebrating because I'm going to have a rotten Christmas? Nice.

The problem is tesuhoha that we do have a limited amount of sympathy / attention span here, and then we like to move on. So traditionally we get an occasional hard luck story, thank it a lot and say "oh dear, that's a shame", sometimes offer a helpful suggestion like "have you tried the debt forum" - and then we get back to other things. Kind of keeps the forum from getting too samey if you see where I'm coming from.