How can people be so pessimistic all the time?

PasturesNew

StevieJ wrote: »

So do rents, but generally after 25 years your mortgage is no more :beer: I think that means a mortgage can quite rightly be part of pension planning.

If an increasing number of people are taking out IO mortgages on SO properties, for 40/50 years ... is this now the case?

The mantra of "25 years/paid off" seems to have become redundant in the light of the changes that have happened in the last few years.

PasturesNew

Cleaver wrote: »

Just some thoughts from me regarding the inheritance posts....

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Braveheart100

How can people be so pessimistic all the time?

For decades there were people who walked up and down Oxford Street with sandwich boards saying "The end is nigh". I always thought it was such a waste of a life.

Posting doom and gloom on the internet seems to be the modern day equivalent and is a equal waste of time and waste of a life imho.

I suppose it's harmless in the end? Unless, of course, you were one of those peeps who should have bought last winter and will be buying in Spring 2010.

the_ash_and_the_oak

agree with this. Not really sure why people post links onto the internet tbh

Davesnave

Braveheart100 wrote: »

Posting doom and gloom on the internet seems to be an equal waste of time and waste of a life imho.

I suppose it's harmless in the end? Unless, of course, you were one of those peeps who should have bought last winter and will be buying in Spring 2010.

Posting bigging-up stuff, smugly, as though you know something the rest of us don't, is an equal waste too, IMHO.

doire_2

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Yes but it's more than just being short term bullish or bearish on house prices, and I wouldn't really count you as one of those posters.

But those that are this way (and theres plenty of them here) feed on a non-stop diet of doom and gloom about everything, economy, unemployment, recession, depression, house prices, swine flu, etc etc etc..... and seek out the gloomiest news they can find about anything related to the board topic, before posting it with more instances of "we're doomed" than Private Fraser on a Dads Army X-Mas special.

Well we are in a recession afterall. What do you want people to say.... house prices are where they should be, there are loads of jobs about for everyone etc?

lostinrates

chucky wrote: »

Thanks for posting that Cleaver and I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your dear mother.

I don't think I'm ever going to post on this forum again after reading that, it was very moving.

This is what I'm alwys getting at. Behind a bunch of views on economy/house prices what is right...we all have a back story...full of good and bad bits. Its why jeering and goading isn't appropriate, even if when we think the part of the person we see here is.....wrong...they may be wrong of course, still, but its a position born of stuff we can't know all the details of.

I hope you do post Chucky, I just hope maybe cleaver's openess is a lesson to us all.

I feel privalidged to have read Cleaver's post. I also feel honoured to have had brief glances in to back stories of some other posters...and everyone's route to where they are is as fralige, as important...however they appear in the robust and often unseemly posting. I find it easier to ''get'' an argument, a position I don't understand when I ''get'' the story behind the formation of the opinion.

lemonjelly

Someone should make pages 6 & 7 of this thread a sticky, & insist all users read it prior to any other threads.

Might bring some perspective to some stuff we occasionally get...

SingleSue

What an incredibly moving and emotional post Cleaver....I got quite emotional reading it.

It's true though, I know I am due to inherit a third share but I would much rather my parents didn't have to pass away for me to receive it, which is why I have told them to just go and enjoy the money and begger us.

All my best to you and your family Cleaver.

kabayiri

Following on from Cleaver's post, this recession offers us a chance to pause and take stock of what we want from life; and our approach to loved ones.

Sometimes it takes a jolt to the system to do that, but it feels like we are on mild sedatives at the moment.

I feel disillusioned with the Xmas event coming up, with the backdrop of economic uncertainty. Maybe this is where some of the pessimism mentions comes from.

My wife and I agreed last night, that the kids (and us) are going to spend more of the Xmas period helping out at a local Church, filling the shoeboxes they send out, etc, and less focus on receiving presents.

With all good intent, we seem to have produced 2 well meaning children, who have a materialist bias now. It took a recent visit to a local hospice for me to realise this.

I just hope we have enough conviction to see it through and fix things.