How can people be so greedy?

ixwood

So are they on the street now then? Owning a house isn't a basic human right. That's just silly.

Badger, you could have at least corrected my dogey spelling/typing before quoting!

Badger_Lady

neas wrote: »

Your in the same boat as me then... I HAD to go to uni to boost my salary by 5-7k.... if i didn't i'd be forever trailing the house prices working at tesco on minimum wage etc.

You've already explained why you went to Uni and I've no doubt it was absolutely the right thing for you to do, but please don't assume the above is always true. Did I say I had a degree? I'm the same age as you, on £10k more and expecting a promotion worth another £5k this summer.

You can quite easily leave school with no more than GCSE's (or, in my sister's case, not even those!) and still have a thriving academic-based career.

ixwood

We've got it better now than ever and no amount of petulant "I want" tamtrums will change that.

Badger_Lady

ixwood wrote: »

Badger, you could have at least corrected my dogey spelling/typing before quoting!

Done now!

neas

you are correct. It is not always true but for a Engineer... you need a degree.

Its not something you can just wake up one morning and decide to do. Most science/engineering subjects require structured learning programmes.

tbs624

Interesting points on this one but some triggered a deja vu moment:

http://pythonline.com/blogs/gna42/four_yorkshiremen_sketch

Badger_Lady

tbs624 wrote: »

Interesting points on this one but some triggered a deja vu moment:

http://pythonline.com/blogs/gna42/four_yorkshiremen_sketch

I did warn you!!!

ixwood

I too have no more than GCSEs, but earn signifacntly more than you currently and have my own place. Degrees aren't essential by any means.

ixwood

lol. Thanks Badger.

jamescredmond

the one thing the op has got is time.
at the age of 24, he's got plenty.
I've posted here before about the UK housing stock being over-valued (IMF put it at 40%, HSBC called 30%). a downturn wasn't just predictable; it was inevitable.
no reading of tea-leaves or requests to mystic meg needed.

so there is some hope for the op.

some of the posts re: uni aducation/fees have made me laugh.
the economy needs better skilled people in all areas.
we create/promote opportunities for higher educ.
we then slap on fees, which leave the student in moderate debt.
but we didn't call it 'debt'. we called it 'investing'.
so the 18yr old u/graduate began h/education believing debt was OK.
all this before he/she has earned a bean!
and just to rub it in, we now preach financial rectitude! brilliant!

I can hear the moans allready: but grads earn more money!
so they do-17% more, on average.

so it follows they'll be paying more tax, right?
no wonder the op's generation thinks it's getting shafted.

back to the housing issue and I, for one, will lose out (on paper, at any rate) as the slide accelerates. do I feel bad? not at all. I bought my house to live in. so long as I can meet the repayments I couldn't care less if its value dropped to a tenner. I've got what I set out to get: a family home.

my advice to the op is this: patience, and plenty of it. monitor the average house price movements monthly .many believe the market to be in a downward spiral, including me, and may continue that way for 2 years.
meanwhile, try to scrape a deposit together, because you'r definitely going to need one.

good luck.




getting shafted.