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Indy: Economic circumstance is forcing grown adults to live like juveniles

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  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    ruggedtoast wrote: »
    Where isn't an expensive area now then?

    Guess it's all relative, but parts of SE London and quite a lot of Kent in the SE. Then further north, how about Stoke on Trent?
  • Percy1983
    Percy1983 Posts: 5,244 Forumite
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    Its quie simple, can you afford the same house as your parents if you do the same (or very similar) jobs than they did at your age?
    Have my first business premises (+4th business) 01/11/2017
    Quit day job to run 3 businesses 08/02/2017
    Started third business 25/06/2016
    Son born 13/09/2015
    Started a second business 03/08/2013
    Officially the owner of my own business since 13/01/2012
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Percy1983 wrote: »
    Its quie simple, can you afford the same house as your parents if you do the same (or very similar) jobs than they did at your age?


    Yes
    They were self employed and so am I.
  • Mr._Pricklepants
    Mr._Pricklepants Posts: 1,311 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Guess it's all relative, but parts of SE London and quite a lot of Kent in the SE. Then further north, how about Stoke on Trent?

    You mentioned it before ILW, it's easy to find a decent sub-250K place within the M25. Obviously won't get you a 4-bed detached in Kensington (Heehaw heehaw! Not fair!)
    Look at places like Surbiton, Kingston, Isleworth, Harrow, Edgware, New Malden...all within a short commute to Central London.
    But probably these places are substandard for the pampered entitled whiner....
  • adouglasmhor
    adouglasmhor Posts: 15,554 Forumite
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    My parents still rent, though a nicer house than mine tbh. We own our house.

    Though my dad has more than enough capital to buy if he wants.
    The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. Terry Pratchett


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  • Andy_L
    Andy_L Posts: 13,068 Forumite
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    FTBFun wrote: »
    This is ridiculous if it's true - my mum was a librarian in the 1980s/early 1990s and she left school at 16 with a bunch of CSEs to her name...

    My understanding is that Librarian is a term that, like Engineer, has suffered over the years. It never used to be applied to the people checking in/out books and putting them on shelves (who were library assistants) but was reserved for those in charge of libraries & who were doing academic research, information management and the like
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Mr._Pricklepants wrote: »
    You mentioned it before ILW, it's easy to find a decent sub-250K place within the M25. Obviously won't get you a 4-bed detached in Kensington (Heehaw heehaw! Not fair!)
    Look at places like Surbiton, Kingston, Isleworth, Harrow, Edgware, New Malden...all within a short commute to Central London.
    But probably these places are substandard for the pampered entitled whiner....

    I mentioned Woolwich in a previous thread. Would have thought I had suggested Beirut from some of the whiners responses.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    Percy1983 wrote: »
    Its quie simple, can you afford the same house as your parents if you do the same (or very similar) jobs than they did at your age?

    I'm a boomer bought first house in 1970s when house prices were about the same as they are now in relation to earnings. So they must be cheap now.
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    mulronie wrote: »
    Depends what you mean by 'librarian'. A librarian is not someone who stamps out Harry Potter books to 12-year-olds. This is what an actual 'librarian' post looks like:

    Thanks - that's what I read it as!
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    Percy1983 wrote: »
    Its quie simple, can you afford the same house as your parents if you do the same (or very similar) jobs than they did at your age?

    Well my parents were living in council housing with 2 children when they were my age, so I'm actually in a better position financially.
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