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

ukcarper

Lots of commuters where I live less that 1 hour to London season ticket just over £3.3k. Nice 3 bed semi £250k , 2 bed terraced £200k. Not unaffordable for a couple of professionals I would have thought.

Graham_Devon

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Braying jacka$$es incapable of empathy for other human beings imo.

Heehaw heehaw! They deserve to rent forever!
Heehaw heehaw! I earned everything I've got including everything I've got that comes from milking a housing shortage and claiming more in state benefits than I've put in!
Heehaw heehaw! How dare they complain!

All I can see is "donkey" from Shrek when reading that. LOL!

Brilliant, just for how it's written!

ruggedtoast

ILW wrote: »

Professionals tend to charge fees rather than be employed. eg Lawyer, Accountant, etc. Even the more successful doctors.

Oh so a plumber is a professional then, or is that a trade?

I assume then that everyone in a law firm who isn't a partner is also a tradesperson as they draw a salary.

Or maybe none of this is important. Maybe what is important is the fact is that there are many people who have worked and studied hard to enable them to do a particular career, that someone off the street just can't walk into, and although they will never get rich doing it they are still deserving of a reasonable standard of living.

People aren't even asking for massive pay rises, all they want is affordable housing.

ukcarper

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:
Faculty Team Librarian




Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine and Science

University of Nottingham -Information Services - Research & Learning Resources Division

(part-time, fixed-term)

£27,578 - £35,938 per annum (pro rata), depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance

Average price of a semi in Nottinghamshire is £94k so affordable on that salary I would have thought.

ruggedtoast

ukcarper wrote: »

Average price of a semi in Nottinghamshire is £94k so affordable on that salary I would have thought.

And where do all the library assistants live?

ukcarper

ruggedtoast wrote: »

And where do all the library assistants live?

There has never been a time when everybody could buy a house but depending on what they earn they might be able to buy a terraced house average price £68k

ruggedtoast

ukcarper wrote: »

There has never been a time when everybody could buy a house but depending on what they earn they might be able to buy a terraced house average price £68k

Lucky them.

ukcarper

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Lucky them.

Better than a complete family in one room like a century ago and probably a lot nicer than the place I was bought up in and about the same as the house I bought in the 70s.

chewmylegoff

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Lucky them.

perhaps all the people in detached houses in nice areas could be moved into terraced houses in nasty areas and all the nice houses bulldozed. that would make it fair.

ruggedtoast

Or perhaps an insidious housing policy designed to price people out of home ownership while shafting them for insecure rentals could be reversed.

Thats the problem with these spurious comparisons to the 1900s and doom laden catastrophisation about displacement; its nonsense.

All that needs to happen is for some more houses to built so some squirrels have to move to a new bit of forest, for the btl casino to be better regulated, and for baby boomers to accept a modest fall in housing prices.

I think even the squirrels would understand the necessity for this before the other two groups have got it.