pressure today.

red_devil

Oh and i were talking about how life is much harder today and people are under so much pressure and no wonder people snap.

He grew up in the 60s. He said people met someone, married and it was so much more easier to get a house than it is today. Councils werent beseiged with requests for housing.

He briefly signec on for a few months while he wad between jobs and he said it was easier than it is today. You had a card stampef and uou got your money there and then. There wasnt all this jobseekers allowance rubbish and being put under pressure. You were unemployec and you were paid.

There were other things as well. Thought it was an interesting discussion. Why is life so pressurised. Its not suprising people snap sometimes.

heartbreak_star

I don't find life that hard...sure I have pressures (poorly mum, work, keeping house sorted etc) but life isn't always peachy, you just get around it and work towards the good times

HBS x

red_devil

Generally its got harder for people to own their home, also to get a job etc and sign on.

i dont remember hearong about people snapping either and wiping out their families.

maybe you havent experienced those types of things.

Buzzybee90

red_devil wrote: »

Generally its got harder for people to own their home, also to get a job etc and sign on.

i dont remember hearong about people snapping either and wiping out their families.

maybe you havent experienced those types of things.

It's definetly harder to get a good job and a house, but not impossible.

Just gotta keep plodding on.

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We're on a tiny island that keeps getting more and more populated, without a massive increase in our GDP to compensate for it.

It's only going to get harder and harder in the years to come

tea-tart-and-rice_3

Yes, interesting. With hindsight my life was more carefree in the 70s and 80's to a degree. The internet and carefree attitudes towards money has encouraged a lot of people to act on selfish thoughts I think. Also a lot of families have lost their "glue" and thereby support system and sounding boards. As a country we are most definately over populated but I cant see any of it improving as the generations pass as old beliefs are being wiped out by selfishness. I can see why people snap too OP.

jaylee3

Agree with this. My older cousin (53) remembers a time when - in the town she was in, in Bedfordshire - you could pick an empty council house you liked and ask them if you could have it, and you would quite often be told yes. She said there wasn't even a housing list. You saw a house and asked for it. I think this was late 60s/early 70s. There were masses of social housing properties being built and it was easy to get housed. Not like now. Also there was no underclass then, and no chavs. Makes you wonder where they came from. AND you could walk out of one job into another...the next day.

Caroline_a

I do think that in those days people took what jobs they could get - there was a stigma about being out of work that isn't always present today. Additionally people have more 'things'. I was a child in the 60s but when I got my first house in the late 70s all my furniture was second hand, passed down from relatives. We didn't buy new until we could afford it outright.

Also we had very little of the technology that is so much a part of life today, if you were lucky you had a colour tv - black and whites were still quite common though. Some people had "stereos", but that was it. No Ipads, mobiles, computers, etc etc. So you didn't need to earn as much. Going out for a meal was a very rare occurrence, normally birthdays or anniversaries, all food was home cooked from scratch as it was a lot cheaper.

If people "need" more money for these sort of things then they will "expect" to have to earn more, and won't be content with a cleaning or sweeping up job, which many people did back then to make ends meet.

notanewuser

Caroline_a wrote: »

I do think that in those days people took what jobs they could get - there was a stigma about being out of work that isn't always present today. Additionally people have more 'things'. I was a child in the 60s but when I got my first house in the late 70s all my furniture was second hand, passed down from relatives. We didn't buy new until we could afford it outright.

Ditto - in the late 90s. I've actually never bought a sofa (we have the ones DH bought 14-15 years ago), a kitchen, dining table, sideboard, lawnmower..........

95% of the furniture in our house (been here 8 years) was bought for other houses.

kelpie35

I think that people have lost the ability to be content with what they have.

The people I know have to have the most popular or up to date item immediately. They never give a second thought to how they will pay for it.

fashionlover10

notanewuser wrote: »

Ditto - in the late 90s. I've actually never bought a sofa (we have the ones DH bought 14-15 years ago), a kitchen, dining table, sideboard, lawnmower..........

95% of the furniture in our house (been here 8 years) was bought for other houses.

Same here. We're only in our 20's but the only new pieces of furniture we've ever bought are a desk and a bookcase. All the rest was given to us, was already in the flat when we moved in or we got from freecycle.