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450k for a three bed flat-madness ! Now these people face ruin.

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  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    chucky wrote: »
    your wife maybe. could you tell your her to take that picture of me off her wall please. but tell her i'll be round later though
    Not a bad effort, cliched and predictable, but up to standard.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    It's this which really gets to me. Where else should they have bought chucky? A nice victorian detached?

    They had little choice unless they wished to rent for what they saw as the rest of their lives.

    maybe - there are less expensive areas with victorian terraces than buying in Chelsea with views over the Thames.
    they had a choice but decided to go for the 'better looking option' that's a bad decision whatever you'd like to call it.

    they could have gone a few miles out without living in Central London.
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    That's a bit unfair. I would like to think I'm pretty sympathetic to anyone in financial difficulty, but at the end of the day they chose to buy the property.
    It was a one liner without much thought. I have sent you a bunch of flowers and a personal note of apology.
  • FungusFighter
    FungusFighter Posts: 1,163 Forumite
    mewbie wrote: »
    It takes time to decide which one of his half wit ID's to deploy. Like a game of chess played by the UK's only surviving brain donor.

    You won't have that prob with me mate, I've only got one half-wit ID:D

    How's the PHD coming btw?;)
    You can't win an argument with a stupid person.

    I'm dyslexic ie I can't be @rsed to check for typos
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    chucky wrote: »
    maybe - there are less expensive areas with victorian terraces than buying in Chelsea with views over the Thames.
    they had a choice but decided to go for the 'better looking option' that's a bad decision whatever you'd like to call it.

    they could have gone a few miles out without living in Central London.
    Lol. They could've stayed at home with Mum and Dad too. Chucky you're in real danger here, you are deviating from your affordability script. Quick - deploy the Pickles joker.
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    mewbie wrote: »
    It was a one liner without much thought. I have sent you a bunch of flowers and a personal note of apology.

    Were they tulips? I hope so. I love tulips.
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    Were they tulips? I hope so. I love tulips.
    Tulips? In the middle of a recession? Are you mad man?
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    That madness wasn't just in London. How ab out a couple of flats costing £1.2 million and £1.5 million where the average salary is just £20k and there are no high paid jobs

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=OUTCODE%5E2679&minPrice=1000000&maxPrice=1500000&displayPropertyType=flats&oldDisplayPropertyType=flats&includeSSTC=true&_includeSSTC=on

    Yes, land of "where the bankers used to go at weekends".
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    mewbie wrote: »
    Tulips? In the middle of a recession? Are you mad man?

    You used to buy me tulips in the early days... *sigh*
  • FungusFighter
    FungusFighter Posts: 1,163 Forumite
    Cleaver wrote: »
    You used to buy me tulips in the early days... *sigh*
    Oi cleaver, naff off my Mewbs:mad:
    You can't win an argument with a stupid person.

    I'm dyslexic ie I can't be @rsed to check for typos
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