Game set and match. Young trapped in starter homes until they aren't young anymore

purch

Rinoa wrote: »

• Work harder
• Don't spend money on frivolities
  

It's all "good news" in your world :eek:

Rinoa

purch wrote: »

It's all "good news" in your world :eek:

I've certainly noticed the harder people work, the more good news comes their way.

dryhat

Rinoa wrote: »

I've certainly noticed the harder people work, the more good news comes their way.

What, you mean like someone having to walk 20 miles every day for water to keep them and their kids alive?

That sounds like hard work, but it don't sound like good news.

Rinoa

dryhat wrote: »

What, you mean like someone having to walk 20 miles every day for water to keep them and their kids alive?

That sounds like hard work, but it don't sound like good news.

Can't imagine Brit yoof walking 20 miles for water. They'd complain the previous generation had drunk it all rather than make any effort to find any.

dryhat

Rinoa wrote: »

Can't imagine Brit yoof walking 20 miles for water. They'd complain the previous generation had drunk it all rather than make any effort to find any.

..... and, unlike your alter-ego, you are unable to piece together seemingly unobvious clues and make a connection to the real vilain.

Nice work columbo.

Loughton_Monkey

We had all this nonsense from Shelter the other day didn't we? Why the hell are the media concentrating on the so-called 'Second Stepper' who hasn't had any publicity for the last 70 years?.....

The timescale they have chosen is intriguing. They take a base of 5 years ago. That's 2008. Most uncharacteristic. Prices had just 'adjusted' downwards by about 20%. So a few canny 30-somethings took the hint and upsized. God bless them. We should applaud them for having the intelligence to do so.

Inevitably, the wishy-washy will sit there moaning about the prices going up, up, up, and up, and decide not to join the party. Their only hope is for some nanny-state press or charity etc. will take sympathy on them and write an article about their 'suffering'....

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Bloody hell Frank! Our house is worth how much? Sod the kids, let's take out a lifetime mortgage. World Cruise... Champagne.... that new stairlift we wanted... Top range motability scooter... And a new phone charger so that we don't burn the house down.....

What's your next thread? "Scandal of 18 year old single mothers priced out of owning a 4-bed house in Chelsea...."

ruggedtoast

vivatifosi wrote: »

Rugged, I know that you like to think that we boomers are the spawn of the devil, but my first home was a starter home as that was all I could afford and I lived in it for a very long time due to negative equity and DH doing his PhD.

People have two choices in life. They can either wallow in self-pity or they can get on with life. Unless people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth and have a spotless health record, nobody goes through life without some trials and tribulations. You can let life defeat you or you can make what you will of it. Quite a few people, whenever they are born, choose the latter.

I'm pretty sure there are more than 2 choices in life. One is compassion for others and letting flow the milk of human kindness.

Let flow your milk boomers! In the form of affordable housing.

Fella

Most forms of bigotry are pretty stupid, but hating a particular group of people for when they were born really is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.

vivatifosi

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I'm pretty sure there are more than 2 choices in life. One is compassion for others and letting flow the milk of human kindness.

Let flow your milk boomers! In the form of affordable housing.

Why do you think boomers are not compassionate? Is it not mostly boomers who are having to act as bank of mum and dad?

It is about time you realised that baby-boomers are not homogeneous. It doesn't matter how many times you say something, it does not make it true. Much the same as it doesn't make it true for Gen X or Y.

As it happens, I would like to see cheaper housing, I think it would be good for most people, as people trade up more than they trade down. Nevertheless, there are a couple of components to affordable housing. One is the actual price of the house, the other is the interest rate paid. Why do you think you are so much worse off paying £150,000 for a house now at just a few % than we were paying £70,000 for a house in the late 1980s at over 10% and rising to 15 with no chance of a fix?

ruggedtoast

Yes, good luck finding a house for £150,000 in the SE. Still at least there is still social housing to fall back on, oh wait, no there isn't.

Anyway if you don't want to read articles about generational inequality don't click on them. I didn't write it incidentally, someone in the Mail did that on their own. Contrary to popular belief I dont actually put all these generational inequality stories in the national press and on tv myself.