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You've Never Had It So Good!!!

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  • thequant
    thequant Posts: 1,220 Forumite
    Rah rah

    Good news all round. It's raining money over the UK


    It is indeed, last year in London the average Londoner in the average Londoner house made twice their take home tax free from HPI.


    My shares are going up, my pension fund is increasing, my house price is rocketing, my business is increasing, my customers are happily eating above inflation price hikes.


    It literally is raining money all over the UK and I'm collecting as much of it I can.


    Even the trickle down effect has started to happen, as I am starting tip a lot more people now.
  • onlyroz
    onlyroz Posts: 17,661 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    It's always amused me that people are prepared to spend millions on a pokey flat in Chelsea when they could buy a six bed detached house with paddocks and stables in Surrey for about £1.5M.
  • Pobby
    Pobby Posts: 5,438 Forumite
    Once again. Short sited thinking going on here. Good job we have Pastures New. Voice of sanity.
  • MrRee_2
    MrRee_2 Posts: 2,389 Forumite
    It is raining money ..... it is, just get out there and grab some of it before the Election!!

    House prices up, wages up, inflation down, energy bills over the winter lowest for years, savings increasing, shares up, dividends rolling in, rent steady and all properties rented out, how can it get any better?
    Bringing Happiness where there is Gloom!
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    onlyroz wrote: »
    It's always amused me that people are prepared to spend millions on a pokey flat in Chelsea when they could buy a six bed detached house with paddocks and stables in Surrey for about £1.5M.

    Move to the West Country and you'll get a whole estate for that amount of money.
  • Daniel54
    Daniel54 Posts: 842 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper
    After the Labour/LibDem coalition taked us into the Euro a lot more people will be millionaires.

    As it is not the current policy of either of these parties to join the Euro,this comment lacks truth and is anyway off topic.

    Actually I suspect there are more paper pension millionaires than there are paper property millionaires

    Either way,I agree that being a millionaire now does not have the same cachet and spending power as it used to -maybe that is why the truly rich are now described as multi millionaires ( or even billionaires !)

    Reading comments from the likes of Mr Ree are a great reminder to always keep complacency at bay in our financial dealings.
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    Pobby wrote: »
    Once again. Short sited thinking going on here. Good job we have Pastures New. Voice of sanity.

    Agreed but when it's raining money it doesn't hurt to put a bucket outside.
  • MrRee_2
    MrRee_2 Posts: 2,389 Forumite
    Some people won't get off their butt to take a bucket outside .... would rather moan on here how no-one knocks on their door and hands them the bucket full of cash.

    They are so stupid that they can't even see it's down to them to get the bucket first!
    Bringing Happiness where there is Gloom!
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    The privileged boomer elite might 'rejoice' at these price rises, but for hard pressed young families it is just another headline of misery; a million reasons why their simple dreams of owning a house have been pushed further out of reach.
  • MrRee_2
    MrRee_2 Posts: 2,389 Forumite
    edited 11 May 2014 at 6:40AM
    Yet, it's funny, millions of young families are buying homes to live in, using the cheapest money the world has ever known!

    While the baby boomers struggle to get more than a poverty income from their savings.

    The young are the winners here, and the winners from the young are the success story ...... of course, chavs watching Jeremy Kyle rather than working may consider themselves 'deserving of the taxpayer to make their lives even better, ..... I don't!
    Bringing Happiness where there is Gloom!
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