Is anyone else bored with this doom and gloom?

The_White_Horse

what do you mean "water is free"?

am i the only mug that has to pay for it?

PasturesNew

geoffky wrote: »

when its like this it is important to take a break from of it all..spend a few days away as it will still be here when you get back..anyone going away in the holidays? i live for mine.....

I've never really had holidays. Last one was a week in the UK in 1995. I used to never be able to afford them. Now I have time and money I see no joy in going somewhere alone at all.

I'd go if I had a reason to.

StevieJ

dopester wrote: »

Cheer up. Of the 5 house for sale on our street, there isn't a single one with an asking price of less than £300,000.

Standard semis on standard 1950s post-WW2 estate in the suburbs, in a neighbourhood of average earners, in the North.

Surely such magnificent optimism more than outshines the doom and gloom.

I thought you lived in Hale must have got it wrong.

dopester

StevieJ wrote: »

I thought you lived in Hale must have got it wrong.

There are 1950s houses in Hale/Altrincham as well - but is it just nearly the entire South Manchester area which seems crazy for prices... Didsbury, Wilmslow, Alderley Edge that trip me out, and convince me not all are worried about gloomy prospects.

StevieJ

dopester wrote: »

There are 1950s houses in Hale/Altrincham as well - but is it just nearly the entire South Manchester area which seems crazy for prices... Didsbury, Wilmslow, Alderley Edge that trip me out, and convince me not all are worried about gloomy prospects.

Tell you what, try Moss Side, Chorlton on Medlock or Ardwick, I am sure you will find something within your budget Like comparing Park Lane/Mayfair ( you know those expensive ones on Monopoply) with Hackney.

thriftybabe

Yes we are also tired of the doom and gloom but it is happening all around us and we cannot get away with it. We have paid people off and i feel rotten. Someone that used to work with us has said that he has phoned about 100 people for jobs and none going. He said he is now going to see if he can get work in a pub (although i do not hold out much). People around us are now getting the picture (only just) that we have been telling them since last year. Things are about to get tight but what can we do. We just need to get on with it.

Badger_Lady

I'm feeling quite casual about it all... my mortgage is cheap, lodgers are plentiful and I can live on "free" eggs if I have to! I've just accepted a new job in a company that looks comparatively recession-proof and comes with a payrise - combine that with lower taxes and we're onto a winner.

Of course the new job does come with a four-month trial period, so maybe I'm insane to move just now, but hey - if I end up unemployed, I'll concentrate on my part-time jobs as a model, a security guard and an artist I don't need much to survive...

mose_2

My boss has been living the high life and now he's getting worried which in turn makes me worried about my job. He has overstretched himself with a £1.3m house paying £3000 a month mortgage, £1200 for two cars for him and his wife. It's easy not to fret when you have a bit of money for those that haven't it can get you down.

Cat695

Doom and Gloom??

People still think their houses are worth more than they are

EA are still lying

The Goverment is still messing things up

Figures for crime/unemployment is still being fiddle in one way or another

Britian has still got troops fighting (iraq/afghan before that was sierre leone before that was kosovo before that was bosnia before that was the gulf war before that was falklands before that was northern ireland and on and on)

Houses are still getting repo'd

people with tin hats are still saying the end is nigh

So nothing has changed in my book

Oh and I forgot the weather forcast is still saying its going to be cold...or wet and its the worst ever recorded

abaxas

I love all this talk of being positive. But people forget that you cant have a positive slant on everything. Without bad there is no good as there is no comparison.