Renting in your 40's and staring into the abyss

remorseless

Gosh, seems like there's no pleasing anybody ever!!!!

Can there ever be a solution?

lisyloo

but are people just going to pair off with the nearest desperado

You can share a room if you are single.
No I wouldn't suggest just finding the nearest person, but there are likely to be colleagues of the same age looking to do the same thing, so you can pair up with someone you know, if saving for a deposit is a priority.
If privacy and nice accomodation is a priority then yes it's going to take a while if you only want to work one job.
No-one is saying it's easy but it's not unreasonable to share a room with someone you know.

lisyloo

Can there ever be a solution?

If people want it easy there is no solution for them.
If they are prepared to make sacrifices e.g. share a room, live frugally, maybe get a second job, then in most parts of the country they can buy a home. Obviously not Kensington and Chelsea.

remorseless

lisyloo wrote: »

If people want it easy there is no solution for them.
If they are prepared to make sacrifices e.g. share a room, live frugally, maybe get a second job, then in most parts of the country they can buy a home. Obviously not Kensington and Chelsea.

a storm in a tea cup then!
But I suspect for most, the idea of making sacrifices is a bit foreign....

From benefits when not working to easily ending a marriage, folks are brought up with the notion that an easy way out is always within reach!

I am trying to think of circumstances where most would be left to fend for themselves and suck it up... beside housing

missyrichards

Lol. What type of weirdo adult would want to share a room with someone if they weren't their own partner.:rotfl:

lisyloo

I am trying to think of circumstances where most would be left to fend for themselves and suck it up... beside housing

What do you mean here?
We don't leave women and children out on the streets in this country. They get shelter if they need it.

If you are suggesting that ownership is a right without lifting a finger for yourself then you are wrong and anyone who thinks it was easy in the past is very wrong.
I don't know how old you are but many young couples in the 60's lived with their parents after they were married to get a deposit together.
It has never ever been easy apart from a very few select periods which are exceptions.
In general people had to make sacrifices.
The difference is back in the 60's and 70's people expected to work hard and go without.
Now it's a big deal if you can't have sky and the latest ipad, not to mention a car.

What are you expecting - a house for everyone that turns 18 without them lifting a finger?
House ownership is not an automatic right for everyone regardless of income.
Shelter is a basic human need and a basic human right and if you are down on your luck our society with provide a roof over our head.

lisyloo

What type of weirdo adult would want to share a room with someone if they weren't their own partner.

Thousands of students and interns do this all the time.
It's not weird at all, it's perfectly normal.
Obviously we've have different upbringings, but I can assure you it's normal during university/college.

missyrichards

It really isn't common to share a room at uni. I shared a room at uni in the first week as a fresher and from what I know of my friends at other universities they definitely had their own rooms.

Graham_Devon

I visited mates in uni and not a single one of them shared a room. Toilets and a kitchen, yes. But they each had their own room, much like a travelodge type setup without the toilet.

Later on they went on to share houses, but again, never a room.

remorseless

lisyloo wrote: »

What do you mean here?

I meant, for most folks now days there is a safety net for pretty much everything. Most (by the sound of it) are not really used to any [real] hardship.

So it's kinda understandable they expect housing too.