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Teachers - day off at the slightest sign of snow

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  • chuckley
    chuckley Posts: 4,405 Forumite
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    considering some train companies decided to close certain lines, most people were stuck or had to get x3 trains AND x3 tubes, e.t.c... damn right the schools closed.
  • wallbash wrote: »
    Try to buy a house in the S.E on the wages of a Teacher newly qualified.
    The only insane one , is the idiot that posted that example.

    DD did just that, though a small inheritance did help with the deposit.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    DD did just that, though a small inheritance did help with the deposit.

    So not on just their wages?
  • Azari
    Azari Posts: 4,317 Forumite
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    custardy wrote: »
    So not on just their wages?

    Wow!

    Did you manage to work that out just using the information that she'd had help with the deposit from an inheritance?

    Not much gets past you. :D
    There are two types of people in the world: Those that can extrapolate information.
  • custardy wrote: »
    So not on just their wages?
    Don't know anybody getting 100% mortgages these days do you?
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    Don't know anybody getting 100% mortgages these days do you?

    Where did I say they did?
    however saving a deposit from wages, isnt the same as getting it as a lump sum
  • custardy
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    Azari wrote: »
    Wow!

    Did you manage to work that out just using the information that she'd had help with the deposit from an inheritance?

    Not much gets past you. :D

    off to ignore with you
  • Most of the deposit was from savings, the inheritance was a contribution. Without it she would have waited longer so it can be done. She is single as well and very frugal.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    Most of the deposit was from savings, the inheritance was a contribution. Without it she would have waited longer so it can be done. She is single as well and very frugal.

    well obviously it can be done
    however its simplistic to say someone can get X job and afford to get a house within the local area
  • Don't recollect saying that, just commenting on Wallbashes post that it is possible, with forward planning and a bit of luck.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
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