March for Homes

Generali

chucknorris wrote: »

Thanks, I needed that, I've just been well laid into in the 'Discussion time' board for (I think) using the term 'care in the community', but ironically I used it in its purest form, meaning looking after someone, I think they thought that I used it in a derogatory way. Specifically my BIL who unfortunately is sectioned and not mentally stable. My wife frets over his welfare and always worries about him, so I try to do my best to make his life a bit better. But that is far harder than it sounds, it requires immense patience, something that I really have to work at, but from what I can see, I do very well where he is concerned, but it is so tiring.

Seriously, I wouldn't get upset by what some keyboard ninja has to say. Most of them wouldn't say boo to a goose in real life.

chucknorris

Generali wrote: »

Seriously, I wouldn't get upset by what some keyboard ninja has to say. Most of them wouldn't say boo to a goose in real life.

Thanks, but I'm not really upset, I'm just very mentally tired, coming on here after having my BIL over for a few hours (he isn't allowed out overnight, he is sectioned in a psychiatric hospital) is a mistake. But my wife usually goes to bed early after he has been (he is so tiring to deal with) and I find myself at a loose end. I find it very hard pretending to chat with him all day, you can't really talk to him, you have to repeat yourself so many times. I work around it by playing pool with him and trying to always do some sort of activity with him, it is hard to explain but just sitting and talking to him is almost impossible.

wotsthat

Windofchange wrote: »

It's alright, the 2008 crash part two is just around the corner. Grab your seats and hold on tight. Anyone for a new build? One careful owner, never lived in, yours for a pound.

Crash part two (AKA 2008.2). Like most sequels the waiting is the best part because the end result is usually disappointing.

Generali

chucknorris wrote: »

Thanks, but I'm not really upset, I'm just very mentally tired, coming on here after having my BIL over for a few hours (he isn't allowed out overnight, he is sectioned in a psychiatric hospital) is a mistake. But my wife usually goes to bed early after he has been (he is so tiring to deal with) and I find myself at a loose end. I find it very hard pretending to chat with him all day, you can't really talk to him, you have to repeat yourself so many times. I work around it by playing pool with him and trying to always do some sort of activity with him, it is hard to explain but just sitting and talking to him is almost impossible.

Perfectly understandable.

When my Dad was gaga with Alzheimer's but not sick enough to go to the home I used to visit about every other Weekend. We'd take him out to somewhere to do something: pub, crazy golf, pub, 'help' buy the kids some clothes, pub, NT house (National Trust not Northern Territory), pub, short walk to the pub. I think you get the picture.

You can't sit and chat with someone who is using some sort of chemical cosh (as Ol' Pa Generali did) or whose illness makes them unable to engage in conversation as people simply don't work that way. Yeah, it's really easy to crticise, "OMG you heartless !!!!!!, this man brought you into the world, how can you not just sit and listen?" but it ain't that simple.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

chucknorris wrote: »

Thanks, I needed that, I've just been well laid into in the 'Discussion time' board

Yeah, some of those posters can be bat-guano crazy.

Wouldn't worry about it. I thought you came across very well and the way you are handling the situation is admirable.

Generali wrote: »

Alzheimer's

You can't sit and chat with someone who is using some sort of chemical cosh.

Been there, done that, completely agree.

cells

London is an exemption

its population fell by 2 million and as a result in the 1990s London by capital city standards was very cheap. Also during that 2 million exodus London built some 0.5 million homes too!

If the same happened over the next 20 years London would become very affordable.

But that isn't happening insteadu London is going to see +2 million people and perhaps less than 400k new homes

chucknorris

cells wrote: »

London is an exemption

its population fell by 2 million and as a result in the 1990s London by capital city standards was very cheap. Also during that 2 million exodus London built some 0.5 million homes too!

If the same happened over the next 20 years London would become very affordable.

But that isn't happening insteadu London is going to see +2 million people and perhaps less than 400k new homes

That's good for me to hear, obviously I have sympathy with those wanting to buy, but I have to think of our situation as a priority.

pbouk

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn wrote: »

Would be a much better use of their time work and save for a deposit, don't remember my wife marching around at 21 before we bought our 1st property. I do remember lots of overtime and sacrifices though.

You are an idiot who is clearly trolling. Not living in the capital myself, I managed to buy my own home outright a couple of years ago and I am lucky as I am still in my 20's. London, is like another planet in terms of house prices. When you bought your home I would wager that the average price was not 10+ times the average salary.
I really do feel for people living in the capital wanting to get on the property ladder.

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn

pbouk wrote: »

You are an idiot who is clearly trolling. Not living in the capital myself, I managed to buy my own home outright a couple of years ago and I am lucky as I am still in my 20's. London, is like another planet in terms of house prices. When you bought your home I would wager that the average price was not 10+ times the average salary.
I really do feel for people living in the capital wanting to get on the property ladder.

I'm the idiot, but you're swinging like a dazzled fish on the end of my rod :drool:

If you want to live in one of the most booming, culturally impressive cities with the best career opportunities you best get saving, if you want to buy a house there for the same price as a house in Stoke then you're even more deluded than I originally suspected.

mobfant

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn wrote: »

I'm the idiot, but you're swinging like a dazzled fish on the end of my rod :drool:

If you want to live in one of the most booming, culturally impressive cities with the best career opportunities you best get saving, if you want to buy a house there for the same price as a house in Stoke then you're even more deluded than I originally suspected.

How's it supposed to stay one of the most booming culturally impressive cities with the best career opportunities if the young and those who create the culture can't afford to live there, nor the people who provide the public services such as teachers, paramedics, and nurses on which the city depends?

No-one thinks they should be able to live there for the same price as a house in Stoke. But it should be a lot cheaper than it is. Who is asking for a free house? Who is asking to not have to work? Pretty sure you won't be able to find many. What people are looking for are rental properties and houses that are affordable relative to their salary.