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Mr._Pricklepants

ruggedtoast wrote: »

People who don't own a house do.

Not all of them, just a minority of ageist losers with chips on their shoulders the size of sacks of King Edwards

Percy1983

Mr._Pricklepants wrote: »

Not all of them, just a minority of ageist losers with chips on their shoulders the size of sacks of King Edwards

Yep wanting a house makes you all of those things...

Who are the ageist ones, the ones asking for houses, or the ones who built houses on green fields for themselves but then say the young aren't aloud to do what they did?

Mr._Pricklepants

Percy1983 wrote: »

Yep wanting a house makes you all of those things...

Who are the ageist ones, the ones asking for houses, or the ones who built houses on green fields for themselves but then say the young aren't aloud to do what they did?

I once didn't own a house also. It just never dawned on me I should have blamed the older generations for that. We just got on with things, saved like mad and got that one bed terraced eventually.
Maybe I'm old fashioned.

ILW

Percy1983 wrote: »

Yep wanting a house makes you all of those things...

Who are the ageist ones, the ones asking for houses, or the ones who built houses on green fields for themselves but then say the young aren't aloud to do what they did?

My house was built 100 years before I was born.

Turnbull2000

ruggedtoast wrote: »

People who don't own a house do.

They'll be thrown scraps through Shared-ownership, local authority deposit guarantees, NewBuy etc. Those that don't take the scraps and rent are currently politically irrelevant.

Percy1983

Mr._Pricklepants wrote: »

I once didn't own a house also. It just never dawned on me I should have blamed the older generations for that. We just got on with things, saved like mad and got that one bed terraced eventually.
Maybe I'm old fashioned.

I did the same, but it doesn't mean I want the ladder pulling up after me, there needs to be more houses built, its a simple fact.

Mr._Pricklepants

Percy1983 wrote: »

I did the same,

There you go, you did the same, and you are....29?
Thanks for proving the point that it's not impossible for the young to purchase their own place.

Percy1983

I was 28 when we purchased, anyway...

I have said all along its not impossible and do regularly challenge the mortgage rationing comments as we managed it with a 10% deposit.

But I still stand by the fact that things can't carry on the way they are, we can't keep the population rising without building housing for them.

ruggedtoast

Mr._Pricklepants wrote: »

There you go, you did the same, and you are....29?
Thanks for proving the point that it's not impossible for the young to purchase their own place.

Are you just naturally ornery, or breathtakingly stupid?

There is a housing shortage now, there didn't used to be. People who bought when there wasn't a shortage found it easier to get a house than people who came along after there was a shortage.

grizzly1911

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Are you just naturally ornery, or breathtakingly stupid?

There is a housing shortage now, there didn't used to be. People who bought when there wasn't a shortage found it easier to get a house than people who came along after there was a shortage.

There has always been a housing shortage. I don't dispute it is getting more acute and the prices in the SE are getting stupid. The overwhelming majority of people have always had to save deposits and start small or rent.