Will the next generation be able to buy their own house?

Green_Bear

Zero_Sum wrote: »

Yeah cos theres no cities in the north.

You live in a bedsit with closed curtains, surrounded by chicken bones.
Londoners love chicken bones.

Obviously. That's why Richard* Whittington's cat was a Londoner.

*website wouldn't allow Richard's name to begin with D...

westernpromise

Zero_Sum wrote: »

Carlisle, Newcastle, Durham, Sunderland, York, Wakefield, Ripon, Salford, Sheffield, Preston, Hull to add a few more

They still point at planes in those places.

There's one city in the UK.

Zero_Sum

westernpromise wrote: »

They still point at planes in those places.

There's one city in the UK.

The only reason Londoners dont is cos their curtains are always closed. Bedsit boy

Thrugelmir

lisyloo wrote: »

It is absolutely horrible standing up on trains everyday.

Was the same 40 years ago. Probably worse then. As opening hours were more compact than they are today.

Green_Bear

Zero_Sum wrote: »

The only reason Londoners dont is cos their curtains are always closed. Bedsit boy

I think these days, bedsits have been re-packed as ''bespoke HMOs'' - for the ''Young Professional'', obviously.

Green_Bear

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Was the same 40 years ago. Probably worse then. As opening hours were more compact than they are today.

Thankfully Saint Tony of Blair arrived and extended the drinking hours.
We now have a Mediterranean Cafe Culture in our city centres each evening. No more fights outside the chip shop at 11pm.

westernpromise

Green_Bear wrote: »

Thankfully Saint Tony of Blair arrived and extended the drinking hours.
We now have a Mediterranean Cafe Culture in our city centres each evening. No more fights outside the chip shop at 11pm.

Which means, tragically, that there's even less to do in Blackburn or Harrogate on a Saturday night.

DigForVictory

I worry. Which is why I have gently herded one son through the application for a Help to Buy ISA & plan to lug the other two through the same hoops...

I want to think of them in a place of their own, but I can't afford to help much other than by making sure they've got the most help available!

Green_Bear

DigForVictory wrote: »

I worry. Which is why I have gently herded one son through the application for a Help to Buy ISA & plan to lug the other two through the same hoops...

I want to think of them in a place of their own, but I can't afford to help much other than by making sure they've got the most help available!

Financial education is important.
But unfortunately, the UK has a culture that completely ignores and even disparages it.

Thrugelmir

Green_Bear wrote: »

Thankfully Saint Tony of Blair arrived and extended the drinking hours.
We now have a Mediterranean Cafe Culture in our city centres each evening. No more fights outside the chip shop at 11pm.

Wasn't referring to drinking establishments.