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Treliac_2
Treliac_2 Posts: 57 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
I hope prices crash so I can buy a house. Sick of the stigma of living in rented with 2 kids. Their friends constantly mock them cause we rent. Antbody else suffering like this?
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  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    Treliac wrote: »
    I hope prices crash so I can buy a house. Sick of the stigma of living in rented with 2 kids. Their friends constantly mock them cause we rent. Antbody else suffering like this?

    Hello Hamish!
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    Wow, that confused me :D
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • Treliac_2
    Treliac_2 Posts: 57 Forumite
    sjaypink wrote: »
    Wow, that confused me :D

    Me too, who's hamish when he's at home?
  • DaddyBear
    DaddyBear Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    Treliac wrote: »
    Me too, who's hamish when he's at home?



    Can't be Hamish. This guy has 2 kids. Hamish is firing blanks. ;)
  • DaddyBear
    DaddyBear Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    Treliac wrote: »
    I hope prices crash so I can buy a house. Sick of the stigma of living in rented with 2 kids. Their friends constantly mock them cause we rent. Antbody else suffering like this?


    Nope. We rent in the richest village in the area. My kids will be mocking the poor kids whose parents bought ex-council boxes at peak.
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    treliac isn't.

    As for Treliac, who knows? :think:
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    NB Has anyone here who rents ever experienced being 'mocked' for this in real life? Let alone kids knowing or caring about such things?

    Written by a troll without kids I suspect.

    Maybe Hamish wasn't such a bad guess after all.
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,625 Ambassador
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    carolt wrote: »
    NB Has anyone here who rents ever experienced being 'mocked' for this in real life? Let alone kids knowing or caring about such things?

    Written by a troll without kids I suspect.

    Maybe Hamish wasn't such a bad guess after all.

    Kids aren't interested in who rents and who owns. They do know of rough areas though and pick up on parents saying they won't let their kids go to play in certain parts.
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  • baileysbattlebus
    baileysbattlebus Posts: 1,443 Forumite
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    carolt wrote: »
    NB Has anyone here who rents ever experienced being 'mocked' for this in real life? Let alone kids knowing or caring about such things?

    Written by a troll without kids I suspect.

    Maybe Hamish wasn't such a bad guess after all.

    I don't think our kids knew anything about renting or buying until they were in their early teens and we moved into this house - they were old enough to understand that we put the old house up for sale and were looking at "new" houses to buy, which they loved - but they would have loved looking at any sort of house - deciding who was going to have what room etc.

    Before that I wouldn't have thought it ever crossed their minds - whatever we lived in was their home. A house is a house - I doubt they even knew that they had to paid for by either paying rent or a mortgage.

    And why would anyone care........ as far as I know schools don't ask if you rent or buy and they don't segregate children according to rent or buy.......
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    carolt wrote: »
    NB Has anyone here who rents ever experienced being 'mocked' for this in real life? Let alone kids knowing or caring about such things?

    TBH I used to get teased for living on a council estate back in the 80's/90's as a child.

    It is usually the parents who pass on these type of views to their children, because kids are not usualy interested in housing.

    So not as an adult but at school yes.
    But kids usually tease about something just glad I wasn't ginger.:D
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