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Panorama tonight: The Great House Price Bubble?

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  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    grizzly1911 wrote: »
    It has never been easy.

    In the past it could be achieved by people on modest single income with perhaps a second limited part time wage.

    Two good full time wages have become necessary. What happens next?

    I seem to recall there were many taking in lodgers in the past.
    Is this additional income incorporates into the statistics?
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • Aberdeenangarse
    Aberdeenangarse Posts: 1,262 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    MFW_ASAP wrote: »
    sometimes you even disagree with yourself.

    Do you ever disagree with mayonnaise, Renoman? ;)
  • MFW_ASAP
    MFW_ASAP Posts: 1,458 Forumite
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    I seem to recall there were many taking in lodgers in the past.
    Is this additional income incorporates into the statistics?

    Like The_Cuckoo_Waltz in the 1970s. :)
  • mayonnaise
    mayonnaise Posts: 3,690 Forumite
    Aberdeenangarse wrote: »
    Do you ever disagree with mayonnaise, Renoman? ;)

    Do you ever make a non-trolling contribution to the forum, aberdeenangarse?
    Don't blame me, I voted Remain.
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    MFW_ASAP wrote: »
    You seem to be contradicting yourself a lot these days, Griz. I guess that's what comes from playing devil's advocate all the time, sometimes you even disagree with yourself.

    It is up to you how you want to interpret it.

    x years ago one person could slave away to buy a property.

    Today one person slaving away isn't enough it requires two people.

    It is hard for both of them.

    Is all of that simply down to supply and demand or other factors at play?
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • MFW_ASAP
    MFW_ASAP Posts: 1,458 Forumite
    grizzly1911 wrote: »
    It is up to you how you want to interpret it.

    x years ago one person could slave away to buy a property.

    Today one person slaving away isn't enough it requires two people.

    It is hard for both of them.

    Is all of that simply down to supply and demand or other factors at play?

    x years ago when I was a kid, both my parents worked in order to afford our house. Today, I work and my wife is a SAHM and we afford the mortgage. Go figure.
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    MFW_ASAP wrote: »
    Like The_Cuckoo_Waltz in the 1970s. :)

    Yes, but I seem to remember other programmes like Rising Damp and even in more modern soaps such as Corrie, there was always a lodger at Jack and Vera's
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • MFW_ASAP
    MFW_ASAP Posts: 1,458 Forumite
    mayonnaise wrote: »
    Do you ever make a non-trolling contribution to the forum, aberdeenangarse?

    Just put him on ignore and his 'handler' will abandon this username and use a different one. He's posted on a few threads and everyone just ignores him, I suggest you do the same. As good old Mrs Thatcher said of the IRA "Deny them the oxygen of publicity".

    It's no fun at all for the trolls to create posts that everyone just ignores. They want a reaction. It gets quite amusing watching them get increasingly desperate with their trolling posts as no one reacts because no one is interested in them. :rotfl:
  • MFW_ASAP
    MFW_ASAP Posts: 1,458 Forumite
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    Yes, but I seem to remember other programmes like Rising Damp and even in more modern soaps such as Corrie, there was always a lodger at Jack and Vera's

    Man about the house was good. IIRC, Mr & Mrs Roper rented the upstairs of their house to a bloke and 2 girls?
  • Loughton_Monkey
    Loughton_Monkey Posts: 8,913 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Hung up my suit!
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    Yes, but I seem to remember other programmes like Rising Damp and even in more modern soaps such as Corrie, there was always a lodger at Jack and Vera's

    Britain needs people like Rigsby!

    My burning question, though, concerns "The Major" and "The two old ladies" staying at Fawlty Towers. Were they on 'bed & breakfast' secondment from the local authority housing department?

    I think we should be told.
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