How much do you pay towards your rent/mortgage?

tsharp

...and police, and street lighting, and street cleaning etc.....

GSD4ME

Oh yeah.:rolleyes:

We live in an unadopted road, no tarmac or road repairs, there is no street lighting in the village at all, the local roads are all pot-holes, there is certainly no street cleaning and as for police, the nearest station is miles away. If you call the coppers they take ages to arrive. I know, I tried it when I saw blokes breaking in next door. By the time the cop car arrived they were long gone.

shellyjane

Judging by the responses its obvious so many people are paying over the odds for their rent and mortgage! Especially when you compare it to how much people are earning a month. I think about 33% of my wages goes on rent and council tax - can that really be fair? And there is no way I can get a mortgage at the moment so its just dead money. The government really need to do something about high house prices - and fast! (Sorry for my little rant!)

GSD4ME

You are right.

Around here, young people stand NO chance of buying a house, about the very cheapest one bed flat cost well over £100,000 and a house, well, you are talking about at least £150,000.

How can youngsters afford that?

And at the same time this Government is demolishing perfectly good houses in the North as it reckons no-one wants to live there. If it took steps to move businesses and especially government departments (as they now employ so many people) up North, that would encourage poeple to move up there where they could afford to live and where there is space, and also stop concreting over the South with ludicrously expensive houses.

Sorry I am REALLY ranting.

sophiesmum_2

Rent on large two bed flat £0 - included in salary:T :T
Council tax £83

sophiesmum

black-saturn

I'm mortgage free now but just over 2 years ago I was paying £370 per month to it for a 2 bedroomed house. The Council Tax is £38 per month.

tomstickland

I pay £420 pcm on a repayment mortgage and £70pcm service charge, plus £75 council tax. One bed flat in small town in Gloucestershire.

lady_fuschia

Funnily enough I've just got off the phone with my Mum having a good old moan about how expensive rent is down here in the south (where I moved to a year ago) compared to North Wales (where I moved from)
I pay £550 a month (and £100 a month council tax) for a one bedroom unfurnished flat (and its !!!!!!- we're looking to move out soon!) could've had a two bedroom house for that where I used to live- oh well- the sacrifice of going back to uni!

rickshaw500

hi, i pay 80 pounds per month on a three bedroomed terrace in south wales.

savvykaz

We pay £389 pcm (mortgage) for a two-bed semi in a lovely town on the outskirts of Leeds. £88 pcm council tax.