How to feel unwanted - age discrimination?

ceridwen

Well - it certainly made ME feel unwanted:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050800/Over-60s-exempt-stamp-duty-free-occupied-homes.html

Must admit my personal reaction to that was "So - is the message 'please hurry up and shuffle off this mortal coil - make way Granny (or - in my own personal case- 'O Childless One')?"

Small as my house is - I presume I would be deemed to have 1/maybe even 2 more rooms than I need - and, as for that "forever home" I still wish/hope for - then I guess I would be deemed very antisocial indeed for having a bit more space than I currently have...:(

Errr...since when were any of these problems apparently my fault?:eek:

Oh well...at least at this rate there shouldnt be any problems in getting pills for voluntary euthanasia type purposes for myself should I ever need them....guess there might be peeps "falling over themselves" to "help" me with that - so I stop "bedroom blocking"......

jennifernil

Not sure quite how these youngsters are going to be able to afford to buy all these big houses, we will certainly not be swapping ours for a 1 bedroom shoe box!

blossomhill_2

Seething!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

We feel quite justified in "clinging" to the home that we earnt, and the bedrooms aren't bedrooms, they are hobbyrooms, wheelchair stores, offices for silver surfers ... (stores for boxes of their children's stuff who have long since flown)

How many of these critics have 2nd or 3rd "homes" !

ceridwen

The thing that would worry me the most about this proposal is the fact that its not just the actual physical size of ones home per se that is at issue here I feel.

The thing is that if a singlie or couple were to move to a one bedroom flat for instance - then they would have all the stuff that comes with being surrounded by neighbours (ie noise coming through the floor and/or ceiling - as well as noise from one or both sides). Also the other things that come with a flat - like service charges, communal areas not being properly cleaned, etc. There arent that many one bedroom houses - so flats it likely would be.

Also - at the least - it could mean pressure for those who have managed to "climb the ladder" as far as a detached house in a reasonable area to be forced back to a terrace or semi-detached house and/or a worse area.

So - its all well and good to think that people could move to a smaller place - but in effect a lot of us couldnt - because it would mean not just a smaller home - but a worse type of home and/or worse area and/or having to give up having a reasonable garden (at an age where we were enjoying having gardening/sitting in the garden as a hobby).

rosalie-lavender

There are a number of four and five bedroom houses for sale near me. Some have been on the market for a long time and all these young people that have no room are not rushing to buy them because they can't afford them. I can't see them magically having the money to buy bigger houses just because older people are forced to sell.

My MIl has a three bedroom bungalow. She is 91 and lives alone. If she was made to sell up she would probably end up in a home. She has lived in that house since 1947 and it is her home and because of it's design is still a good house for an elderly person to live in. The design enables her to be independent. Why should she be forced out of somewhere she has worked hard to buy?

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I don`t think this proposal was put across very well and it certainly wasn`t thought out properly. Firstly, young people won`t be able to afford the houses that are being spoken about, nor could they afford to run them. They should do what we all did ie climb the housing ladder, starting with a small modest home and then via hard work and frugality to whatever they finally want to settle in.. It took us 41 years of hard graft for us to end up where we are now

We did move house last year and it is very stressful and physically exhausting to do so, ok then, maybe offering free help to those who would like to move somewhere more comfortable in old age, would be a good thing but only if that is what they want

There are big differences in houses as we all know, our family home was a rambling detached 4 bedroomed in 1/3 acre and it took a lot of effort and money to maintain. We now live in a great 4 bedroomed house, no energy costs and light and airy. The bedrooms are called bedrooms but they are not big enough. Dh and I have spread out and every room is used and doubled up for when family comes to stay

Young people cannot afford the bigger rambling houses so the media are talking rubbish once again. Some of them, like one of our dd`s is climbing the ladder the old way and is now in a modern, well insulated house, they wouldn`t look at the type of money pit that we used to own, no matter how nice it appeared. No one will be forced to leave anywhere if they own it but help with sorting, packing and moving into an easier to manage home just might be a dream come true for some older folk

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I'm fed up with all the rubbish we get nowadays against us so called "boomers".
I lived in a two bed house when I had three daughters because at the time that was all we could afford.
There are plenty of large houses for sale so why don't families buy these,I'll tell you why because they need a lot of us to put our houses on the market so that prices drop.
These families can't afford our properties otherwise.
Not only do they want us to move into smaller homes but they think we should be giving them away.
This idea is only a distraction against the fact the government is'nt providing enough social housing.
I don't know about you but I feel older people seem to be the new scapegoat after the sick and disabled.
They've had the boot in for the sick and have went as far as they can and now they've started on the elderly.
When we were younger we accepted that older people had more because they'd been around longer and had worked for it,nowadays the young seem to want equal standing from the start.
They aspire to nothing and believe they are owed everything.
I actually only moved into a five bed/three reception house a few years back as we wanted the space for when we retire so we can follow our hobbies and have room to do them.
I have no guilt about buying a house too big for just the two of us.
My money,my choice on how to spend it.
Actually not one family viewed this house only investors who wanted to turn it into flats.
I have no intention of leaving my home for anything and just hope the youngsters realise (if they can see through their arrogance) that they themselves will be old one day.
The way they are going they will have stirred up so much dislike for the elderly that the next generation will treat them worse than they are behaving now.

[Deleted User]

spot on mrs T, billiant post

[Deleted User]

I just read todays version, different to what I was writing about, which I saw on tv yesterday
and I am absolutely hopping furious. How DARE they

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050800/Over-60s-exempt-stamp-duty-free-occupied-homes.html

I am spitting mad, it is beyond belief.

jennifernil

While nobody can make us sell our houses, the worrying bit for me was the idea that you would be penalised by very high taxation, with the aim of moving you on.

We are already paying just over £3k in council tax and water etc (all on one bill up here), which is just affordable, and a cost we have decided to accept so that we can continue living here.

Like many, we have spread out to fill the house as the children have left, and we too still have lots of their stuff here that they seem reluctant to remove. We thought we would start a good clear out once we retired, but 4 years on, not a lot has happened!

jennifernil

kittie wrote: »

I just read todays version, different to what I was writing about, which I saw on tv yesterday
and I am absolutely hopping furious. How DARE they

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050800/Over-60s-exempt-stamp-duty-free-occupied-homes.html

I am spitting mad, it is beyond belief.

I didn't see the TV report, what was that saying?