Baby Boomers making out like bandits as usual

Jimmy_31

reweird wrote: »

You forgot to add... 'and finally grow a pair, and move out of mom and pops to let them enjoy their own life and money'.

You are scarily obsessed with mentioning balls all the time.

Jimmy_31

reweird wrote: »

Any of these man-babies on here never considered that if they spent less time posting their embittered self-entitled boo-hoo poor me nonsense and more time and energy on educating and improving themselves that their lot in life would be better? No one owes you a living. In fact no one owes you anything.

Taxman owes me £600 quid apparently.

Ill add that to the house deposit/house buying outright fund

Rinoa

OptionARMAGEDDON wrote: »

Rm, only for one part of society they have. The weak and thegreedy have. The poor b*ggers who are expected to pay for it all havent. Least of all the young educated middle class.

Which is why the boomers should be sh#t scared. Its this subset that will form the future leadership of the uk and its this subset that will take back its pound of flesh. Think we will be the only ones with delayed retirement? Wait ten years and i bet you aint.

Why not start immediately by mugging a few OAP's of their pension money.

ceridwen

Going4TheDream wrote: »

That is a very valid point and actually a fairly big part of the problem we see today and funnily enough not caused by baby boomers

By 2030 18% of households will be made up of single people. It is around 15% ish today. I know the figures will include those in social housing where extra rooms etc are not encouraged but how many single people younger people have bought houses over the last say 10 to 15 years?

I know of many couples in their mid 30's approx who both owned/were buying a 2 or 3 bed home. And when deciding to marry or move in together often moved into one of them and rented the other out and still do.....

Well - as I've pointed out on another thread - there simply are VERY few one bedroom houses around and one bedroom flats have all sorts of disadvantages (neighbours above and/or below, service charges, communal area problems, small likelihood of a garden, etc). Thus - if one has come to an age where it's time to have a Home of Ones Own - then that is precisely what the vast majority of people will do if they can afford it and have no option but to buy a 2/3 bedroom house (if its a "proper home" - rather than a flat that they require).

The generation before mine got married automatically - to SOMEONE. In my own generation the vast majority of men and non-career type women married. Generations down from mine simply don't get married (or even live together) regardless of whether they have found Mr or Miss Right or no. Many of them hold out for the right person and won't marry someone else - and, for that, I admire them. It was a pretty lonely business for female non-career baby boomers who had a viewpoint about "holding out" - because it sure wasnt the normal way of thinking then...:(. So - yep....next lot down WILL have a 2/3 bedroom house quite likely and even as a single person - IF they can find a way to afford it. Also - a lot of those houses will be rented out (ie rather than sold) when a couple get together because they arent being offered a fair price to sell them - so are probably hanging on in there waiting for the market to look up before they are able to sell.

abaxas

RenovationMan wrote: »

Do you not think things have improved since the 60s and 70s?

Some things have, others have not.

Maybe I'm wrong to think that things should always get better and strive for it.

reweird

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

You are scarily obsessed with mentioning balls all the time.

JimmyLad how old are you now, 31, and still living at home? There's certainly nothing to joke about in your situation, in particular for your long suffering parents. So you'd do well to get your own house in order, sorry I mean your mummys house, before you try to crack silly immature jokes boy, as you are fast putting Norman Bates to shame.

reweird

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

Taxman owes me £600 quid apparently.

Ill add that to the house deposit/house buying outright fund

Is that all? I got over 3.5k two years ago. But if it makes the difference of you finally moving out a few months early then I am sure everyone on here welcomes it.

Aberdeenangarse

reweird wrote: »

you are fast putting Norman Bates to shame.

.......and you are putting Master Bates to shame

Jimmy_31

Aberdeenangarse wrote: »

.......and you are putting Master Bates to shame

Nice:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

molerat

Firstly I wiil state I was born in the fifties.

I think the the majority of boomers are themselves an unwitting product of the current situation and not the cause. I put the cause down to the DINKY thirty / forty something children of the seventies who started the "must have now generation" and were, and still are, willing to pay over the odds to get whatever they wanted. In my time mum stayed at home and looked after the kids whilst dad went out to work and everything was paid for on one wage. Now things are different but the boomers are not to blame. Look at any of the property-p0rn programmes, how many boomers do you see offering silly money?

Mrs M and me have inherited the princely sum of around 9k between us, our kids are on track for at least £150k each. Now who is hard done by ?