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Given your current circumstances are houses
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OK I give up, it looks like honesty is wasted on some.0
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Graham surley the ide of any poll is based on truth so if more could not afford to buy than buy prices would be un-affordable for the people who answered the poll.
This is not to say those people belive houses are affordable or un-affordable but it is representative on personal situations.
It is totaly un-leading and unbais. if you belive otherwise please point it out to me.
And you say mine was twisted to get the answer I wanted?!
Of COURSE house prices are affordable to your personal circumstances if you can afford a house. And you know most of us here have a house, so you will get a slant to "yes they are affordable".
You think someones gonna come along and say "well, duh, I have 200k, the house is 190k, yer but no but yer but no really2, I can't afford it can I".
What on earth do we need a poll to ask that question for!? You think that somehow proves houses are affordable?!
Dear lord, I like you, but you do get terribly desperate at times.0 -
moggylover wrote: »If that is his trick then I would have to answer that no, in this area and comparing to wages then I would say they are still probably at least 10/15% too high:D
I could afford to buy: but then I am old and grey and have a house already paid for and an inheritance, which does not make me Mr and Mrs Average;)
This is done as a seperate poll to mine, as I was trying to "twist" the answers :rolleyes:0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »And you say mine was twisted to get the answer I wanted?!
Of COURSE house prices are affordable to your personal circumstances if you can afford a house.
What on earth do we need a poll to ask that question for!? You think that somehow proves houses are affordable?!
Dear lord, I like you, but you do get terribly desperate at times.
Graham are you a complete dimwit as I make it there are more than one option there the other main one being Un-affordable
It is unbiased you can afford a house but it does not mean you think houses are affordable. But lucky for you this poll is not about thinking:rolleyes:
Go learn about poll writting and being unleading !!!!!!.
Here I will help you.
http://www.esurveys.com/survey-articles/survey-writing-tips/conduct-online-surveys-060808/page5.html0 -
OK I give up, it looks like honesty is wasted on some.
Seems like a fair poll to me, if the majority of people here can afford a house then they are affordable, based on MSE forum users anyway. Or is that too simple?
What will be interesting is a lot of bears on here can easily afford a house but they're just too tight
That said I've always found it suspicious that half the bears on here and hpc seem to have a 100k desposit and 6 figure salaries, yet refuse to buy until house prices drop another £2.80. This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
just thought of something else...
i could afford to buy a property, but not the property i need (want?).... does that mean property is affordable?
difficult, this subject, innit?
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
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I can afford to buy- but not anywhere I'd actually want to live in London.They are an EYESORES!!!!0
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Graham_Devon wrote: »This is done as a seperate poll to mine, as I was trying to "twist" the answers :rolleyes:
Graham grow up and read.
i posted this on your pollGraham,
I have posted a new poll for you and have made it anonymous.
It takes out some of the don't know as it is based on personal circumstance.
I will give you the credit for it though
Don't play the victim you are deliberatly derailing a poll which as NO BIAS SLANT if it as prove one.0 -
Graham grow up and read.
i posted this on your poll
Don't play the victim you are deliberatly derailing a poll which as NO BIAS SLANT if it as prove one.
Ok, i can tell you the answer.
Houses are affordable in the main to people in this part of the forum who can afford a house, sockies included on MSE.
Wow, thats some serious insight into the economy.
Now, if you will excuse me, I'm off to pop a poll in the bank charge reclaim board asking them if it's wise to claim back bank charges. Might do one in the debt board and put up a poll saying "can you afford to save" too.0 -
just thought of something else...
a)i could afford to buy a property, but not the property i need
b)(want?).... does that mean property is affordable?
difficult, this subject, innit?
Well no because that would mean they are unaffordable based on your circumstance EG proximity to work
Want = Does not mean unaffordable, I would like a mansion but I would say they are unafordable to me..0
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