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Council house debate

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  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    Then move. You'll be so much happier.

    Behave, im not buying yet there is still plenty of drops in house prices coming. No point wasting hard earned money.
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    wrightk wrote: »
    so your accusing the councils now? sit down and read through your councils banding criteria and you tell me where it says anything about being unemployed

    Like i said, saying and doing.
  • Jimmy_31 wrote: »
    And im making the point that this doesnt seem to be the case, so i think we will just have to disagree.

    Wrightk is telling you how it actually is. You are just voicing your ill informed opinion.
  • Jimmy_31 wrote: »
    Like i said, saying and doing.

    The one thing to remember with CBL is that it is transparent. Anyone can go online and look at the previous lets to see why they didn't get a particular property. The entire system is also regularly audited. There are no cheats from within.
  • wrightk
    wrightk Posts: 975 Forumite
    tell us your area and ill even find your councils banding criteria for you
    Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I'm inclined to believe Withnail is right. We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.
  • VJ_
    VJ_ Posts: 64 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    I think its getting like that again. I know a few friends who have lived with their parents until early-mid thirties until they had enough of a deposit to buy their own place.
    This.
    I haven't waited quite that long, but then I've been saving since I was a young teenager. I've lived at home at close to zero rent all my life.
    Now I'm 28, I've finally saved up enough for a decent deposit (40%) on the 1 bed flat I'm in the process of buying - the first of my circle of friends to do so. Most of them still live in privately rented, shared accommodation.
    ~share and enjoy~
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    The one thing to remember with CBL is that it is transparent. Anyone can go online and look at the previous lets to see why they didn't get a particular property. The entire system is also regularly audited. There are no cheats from within.


    Must be nice to live in a perfect world.
  • Jimmy_31 wrote: »
    Must be nice to live in a perfect world.

    It is what it is. That might not fit your preconceptions, but that doesn't make it not so.
  • wrightk
    wrightk Posts: 975 Forumite
    bet he doesnt even know what CBL stands for. and if he doesnt he's scurrying to google it now
    Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I'm inclined to believe Withnail is right. We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    It is what it is. That might not fit your preconceptions, but that doesn't make it not so.

    You watched that tv program on council housing yet.
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