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No country for young men — UK generation gap widens

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  • shaggydoo
    shaggydoo Posts: 8,435 Forumite
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    edited 2 March 2015 at 6:22PM
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    I'm sure this property was very cheap!!!
    What do we do when we fall? We get up, dust ourselves off and start walking in the right direction again. Perhaps when we fall, it is easy to forget there are people along the way who help us stand and walk with us as we get back on track.
  • shaggydoo
    shaggydoo Posts: 8,435 Forumite
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    1970s From Birmingham to Glasgow
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    What do we do when we fall? We get up, dust ourselves off and start walking in the right direction again. Perhaps when we fall, it is easy to forget there are people along the way who help us stand and walk with us as we get back on track.
  • thequant
    thequant Posts: 1,220 Forumite
    Amazing pics, and this is what Graham_Devon wants us to return to?


    Shame on him :(
  • yertiz_2
    yertiz_2 Posts: 252 Forumite
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    It's shocking, but were'nt these houses owned by private landlords? And look what's happening now....

    http://england.shelter.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/726166/People_living_in_bad_housing.pdf
    The number of people living in bad housing: Evidence from the English Housing
    Survey
    The English Housing Survey (EHS) is commissioned by the Department for
    Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and explores the quality of housing in
    England.
    The key findings from this analysis are:
     Around three in ten people live in bad housing (3.6 million children, 9.2 million
    working age adults and 2 million pensioners).
     Bad housing is more common among those in private rented properties. Four in ten
    (3.3 million) private rented tenants live in bad housing.
     Over 975,000 children living in social rented housing are living in bad housing.
    Approximately 845,000 children living in private rented housing are living in bad
    housing. And over 1.7 million children living in owner occupied housing are living in
    bad housing.
     Overcrowding is more likely to affect those in social rented properties while living in
    non-decent housing is more common among those in the private rented sector.
     Children are most likely to live in overcrowded housing compared to working age
    adults and pensioners. Overcrowding is also more common among those living in
    London.
  • mayonnaise
    mayonnaise Posts: 3,690 Forumite
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    Don't blame me, I voted Remain.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    edited 3 March 2015 at 7:24PM
    thequant wrote: »
    Amazing pics, and this is what Graham_Devon wants us to return to?


    Shame on him :(

    What? Where has that come from!?

    Pick a random poster and suggest they want something completely random?!

    As for a "return to". What's different today?

    Anyone can post us pics of poverty in any decade....

    2000's....

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    What's that proven?! Other than none of those who thanked all the photo posts will not thank this.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    edited 3 March 2015 at 7:25PM
    mayonnaise wrote: »

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    I assume those in the 70's didn't have parties? Funny that, as we still celebrate the briliance of the 70's party scene.

    I assume they never went out?

    I assume the beatles and the crowds of people following them etc never actually existed and it's all a conspiracy theory!?

    I guess these sort of things, simply never happened as everyone was too busy rubbing their two shillings together inbetween grafting 90 hours a week?

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  • Loughton_Monkey
    Loughton_Monkey Posts: 8,913 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    ....Pick a random poster and suggest they want something completely random?!.....

    Goats & Monkeys Graham!

    The very, very, very, last thing you are is a "random poster".
  • lukeh23
    lukeh23 Posts: 207 Forumite
    edited 4 March 2015 at 1:06AM
    How most of this thread likes to portray their childhood

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    And how it actually was

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    And how they come across to the non-codgers on this board

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  • shaggydoo
    shaggydoo Posts: 8,435 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Graham Devon What's that proven?! Other than none of those who thanked all the photo posts will not thank this.
    Do you think that more people live in poverty now than in the 1970s? Do you think the quality of Britain's housing stock has improved since the 70s?
    What do we do when we fall? We get up, dust ourselves off and start walking in the right direction again. Perhaps when we fall, it is easy to forget there are people along the way who help us stand and walk with us as we get back on track.
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