Twice As Many Single Women Buy Property Than Single Men

reweird

Probably explains the glut of man-babies on here touching 30 and still under mummies apron strings.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2062452/The-Forever-Singles-Theyre-attractive-successful-growing-number-women-say-prefer-independence-romance-Liberating--recipe-loneliness.html#

"The number of 25 to 45-year-old women living alone has doubled over the past two decades, with twice as many single women buying properties as single men."

PasturesNew

Blokes are down the pub, watching footy ... and have no desire to go shopping for cushions or filling their time with painting walls.

MrRee_2

Men aren't men anymore ..... not like the old days ...... today, as above, they are Man Babies hanging onto Mummies apron strings even at advanced ages like 25!!!

In my day you left home at 15 and worked .... like I said, men were men ......

suki1001

MrRee wrote: »

Men aren't men anymore ..... not like the old days ...... today, as above, they are Man Babies hanging onto Mummies apron strings even at advanced ages like 25!!!

In my day you left home at 15 and worked .... like I said, men were men ......

Yes but they also often married in their early twenties and had a couple of kids by 25. People just don't do that anymore, so they don't need to move out and buy.

MrRee_2

suki1001 wrote: »

Yes but they also often married in their early twenties and had a couple of kids by 25. People just don't do that anymore, so they don't need to move out and buy.

True, my dad is just 19 years older than me .... but, come on, where is the desire of males to leave and cut their own furrow?

Too many Mummies boys about these days I'm afraid.

Aberdeenangarse

MrRee wrote: »

my dad is just 19 years older than me ....

That's not what your mum says :rotfl:

suki1001

Women obviously had more demand for them in the past! Now women can get their own jobs and mortgages, the men realise there's no-one waiting at home for them with their tea on the table and all the cleaning done, if they move out of mum's the chances are, they'll have to do it all themselves and discover the washing fairy doesn't really exist. What it boils down to, is that men migrate to where the housework is done for them.

Going4TheDream

Times have changed - women no longer need men in the same way that they used to years ago - financially or even emotionally it seems.

Men years ago know women didn't work, have money and were 'waiting' for a man to come along or they would spend their life on the shelf.... think Jane Austen novels or even your average 1950's housewife! Women 'served' men, who they were financially dependent upon, were often given very little say in 'important matters'

Zoom forward to today where girls outshine boys at school, we have sexual equality, equal opportunities, very often financial independence, all those things have given women the opportunity to choose their life direction rather than it being preordained for them

The 'boys' it seems are being left behind and will have to 'up their game' a little or perhaps they will be left on the shelf in the future?

kabayiri

Some women used to go out and find a mate, someone who was a 'real catch' with a house and a car.

Now it's the blokes who go out and find the women who are a 'real catch', and as a bonus they don't even need to hang around the gymkhana any more.

Hey, that's equality for you. What's the problem ?

suki1001

Going4TheDream wrote: »

Times have changed - women no longer need men in the same way that they used to years ago - financially or even emotionally it seems.

Men years ago know women didn't work, have money and were 'waiting' for a man to come along or they would spend their life on the shelf.... think Jane Austen novels or even your average 1950's housewife! Women 'served' men, who they were financially dependent upon, were often given very little say in 'important matters'

Zoom forward to today where girls outshine boys at school, we have sexual equality, equal opportunities, very often financial independence, all those things have given women the opportunity to choose their life direction rather than it being preordained for them

The 'boys' it seems are being left behind and will have to 'up their game' a little or perhaps they will be left on the shelf in the future?

No, the boys don't need to up their game at all. They've got it very cushty, think about it. Why bother moving out when someone picks their washing up of the floor? They have no wives to go to if they fly the nest at 19, so why not just stay at home.

I'm also not quite sure why you think the inequality gap has closed. I think sometimes us women have made a rod for our own backs. The pay gap between men and women is still huge. You get a career, then you get married and have kids and guess what? Before you know it, either your career takes the hit or your kids do, and you still have to do the majority of the housework, even if your OH takes some of the cleaning responsibilities, you can be guaranteed most women take on the majority of things. We sadly do not live in an equal world, it doesn't matter if you set out with the intentions of "my partner will be my equal", it rarely works out that way. Even biology puts pay to that, so if you breastfeed, you are the one up at all hours of the morning feeding your baby, equality doesn't come into it.
So you can live it large before you settle down and make out we're all equals, but when it comes to settling down, unless you have no intention of ever having children, you'll find yourself falling down the same path many of us have, or you have an incredibly unusual relationship.
Men have it sorted, they naturally attract people who do things for them, otherwise known as their mothers or their wives, we women are still losing out here.

MrRee_2

Yes, I suppose the women are now more like men - and the men are more like women?