Defeated and trapped. Young look on in despair at The Kingdom of the Boomers

Percy1983

wotsthat wrote: »

Real prices have fallen every year since 2007 and are currently at 2004 levels according to the Nationwide.

It's amazing how the first real HPI for years brings out the frothers though.



The increasing value, or otherwise, of your house is probably one of the least significant factors to influence the future success of your children.

I agree on that front, as mentioned I should have a property and money to be able to help them out if needed.

My point is about a level playing field for all Children so they all compete with each other based on their own merits.

As said if rampant HPI takes hold we will get to a situation where my children may be fine but my mates might not be as he always rented, this isn't a situation I want to see.

Apparently this is a selfish way of thinking according to another poster on here...

C_Mababejive

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There will not be anarchy because generally, the English ,being mere subjects,are used to being subserviant and downtrodden..the ragged trousered philanthropists in a parasitical nation in which the few own most and live off the backs of the many.

Keeping tugging your forelocks..

chucknorris

de1amo wrote: »

.he is Australian!..İ wouldnt touch a UK graduate!

That is a ridiculous generalisation!

de1amo

No it is the rule İ run my business by...if you don't like it tough...İ don't loose sleep about not employing British graduates......even in my own family in the Uk İ have unemployed graduate relatives and won't employ them....life is tough...but İ look after my business!!

chucknorris

de1amo wrote: »

No it is the rule İ run my business by...if you don't like it tough...İ don't loose sleep about not employing British graduates......even in my own family in the Uk İ have unemployed graduate relatives and won't employ them....life is tough...but İ look after my business!!

I don't care enough about what you think to like it or dislike it, but that won't stop me from commenting though. But I am sorry to hear that life is tough for you, hope things improve soon.

de1amo

My life is far from tough but if i had so low standards to employ a Uk graduates my school would suffer and then life would get tough...İ get loads of waster year gap students knocking on my door expecting me to foot their holidays....they start off as they mean to go on in life!!

chucknorris

de1amo wrote: »

My life is far from tough but if i had so low standards to employ a Uk graduates my school would suffer and then life would get tough...İ get loads of waster year gap students knocking on my door expecting me to foot their holidays....they start off as they mean to go on in life!!

I think perhaps the better UK graduates wouldn't be interested in working in your school, therefore the sample that you are seeing probably isn't representative of the full range of UK graduates. How much are you paying them? Our graduates tend to start on about £25k (and that is by no means the upper end of the scale).

de1amo

Now there is the first test failed.....do you really think the pay of a graduate in the Uk has any bearing on life in Turkey. The cost of living is cheap, the sun is constant, people work hard but enjoy life......on 25000 a graduate in the uk would be complaining.....here he/she would be a king!!...one day Britain will wake up and realise that their inflated wages makes the country unable to compete in the world!!

Oh and where are all these 25k graduate jobs???

chucknorris

de1amo wrote: »

Now there is the first test failed.....do you really think the pay of a graduate in the Uk has any bearing on life in Turkey. The cost of living is cheap, the sun is constant, people work hard but enjoy life......on 25000 a graduate in the uk would be complaining.....here he/she would be a king!!...one day Britian will wake up and realise that their inflated wages makes the country unable to compete in the world!!

Yes I do think there will be a comparison, there always has to be one made by intelligent people (but obviously not for like for like basis, some adjustment would be necessary to balance the quality of life in both countries).


But to get the better graduates you are going to have to attract them, as I intimated previously you are obviously not doing that. If you pay peanuts you get monkeys (or in your case Australians).


EDIT: It sounds to me like you have a chip on your shoulder about the UK.

de1amo

İ am English and know the mind set of graduates towards work. İ own a successful school which gives education to the rich people's kids. My wife and İ have carefully nurtured our business and choose all our teachers carefully because they are our most valuable asset....it is not just prejudice against the 'disillusioned' graduates of Britain ..we don't employ Turkish teachers either......there are decent graduates in the UK but all the ones that come to Turkey are here because no one else wants them....in Turkey foreign people can't work legally. Our Australian teacher was born in Australia but has Turkish parentage...he has to speak Turkish to do the TEFL course...