Brighton Sky Blue
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I suppose if that attitude exists it's because of the increased competition. London is that taken to the most ridiculous extent where you're paying megabucks to stay in someone's back garden shed
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I suppose if that attitude exists it's because of the increased competition. London is that taken to the most ridiculous extent where you're paying megabucks to stay in someone's back garden shed
Nick
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Think it also has to do with "peer pressure" and "reputation" as well. Fuck that.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Well now I've learned from the Sheaf thread that we live in Warwickshire's answer to Compton I don't know what that does for our 'rep'
chiefdave
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Totally get where you're coming from and there's no doubt there's a group of people who happily piss their money away and then complain but don't think that's the case for everyone. In my mind if you're working full time you should be able to afford a half decent standard of living.
For me the issue is, and I can only speak personally, how my situation compares to my parents.
My Dad did the same job from leaving school, with little in the way of qualifications, to retirement. It was strictly 9-5. Off the back of that he always had a newish car, couple of holidays a year and a nice detached house that's now worth the best part of £500K. His pension every month is more than my salary.
Now I'm not saying everything was brilliant for him and there wasn't times when it was tough but by contrast I spent four years at Uni studying Computer Science, and came out with a nice debt, and work in what he would consider a 'better' job.
I'm lucky if my work week is less than 60 hours - with no overtime or TOIL plus evening and weekend calls are the norm.
I drive a heap of shit 12 year old car that's done 130K miles, as having a car is a requirement of my job. My last holiday was a long weekend camping in Devon in 2013, in my adult life I've been on 9 holidays, and one of those was my wedding and 3 of them were long weekends rather than a week on a beach.
Buying a 2 bed terrace has pushed my finances to the absolute limit. Even pre-covid I couldn't even tell you the last time I went to a pub or restaurant or had a takeaway. If by some miracle the stress doesn't kill me before I reach the ever increasing retirement age I'll be lucky to be able to afford to retire judging by my pension statements.
Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware that there are many people in a far worse position than me but not everyone is living the life racking up huge credit card bills.
Grendel
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This isn’t just about age though is it.
The Coventrian / Valiant I know lives in a half a million house has an Audi and a new Ford has zero qualifications goes frequently to a local hostelry for meals and drinks and I’d guess is the same age as you
clint van damme
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Worms are shit nowadays, not like the worms when we were young.
Sky Blue Harry H
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Taste much the same, I think ?
Liquid Gold
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It’s a bit different on a fancy road compared to whole cities and counties becoming unaffordable.
skybluesam66
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In the 70s a factory track worker with a family could afford to buy a nice house and his wife could be a housewife
The offset being that much less was spent on material luxuries
Either way that could not happen today
The offset being that much less was spent on material luxuries
Either way that could not happen today
Nick
Administrator
As was the Docklands example.
Just move to a shitter part where the prices are less?
I'd love to demand I live in Finham or Syvechale but I can't afford to so I don't.
letsallsingtogether
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I have just sold a two up two down for 160k and have r3placed it with a 2 bed flat for 140k.
There is a nice 2 bed flat in Whitley going for 100k.
Got my first house for 27k average at that time was about 35k. Mortgage rates at the time went up to 15% quite crippling for a lot of people.
Mild-Mannered Janitor
Kindest Bloke on CCFC / Maker of CCFC Dreams
Cannot compare the different era’s effectively, finance has been cheap for so long now then it gives the confidence for finance companies to offer more, for a longer period and at a greater multiple, there is also more players offering this so more competitive. To compare when I purchased my first at 14% isn’t easy as completely different and rates could move by a whole 1% and unemployment was at over 3m with no job security, if I were buying now in this market when I did back then, then I would leverage and borrow every penny I could because employment is good and you can refinance regularly at zero or nil cost.
shmmeee
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The plural of anecdote isn’t fact. Just because you can find someone doing well (and I know lots of people that made bank during the housing bubble that skew the averages) doesn’t mean on average it’s not a generational issue.
You can pull out all the exceptions you like all the data is very very clear that this is the first generation who’s standard of living won’t rise like the ones before it.
Brighton Sky Blue
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The price you paid for your first house was the same as the deposit we had to pay for ours
Grendel
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Come back to me on that when your paying 3 times the payment you are now - and if that did occur house prices would crash
Sky Blue Pete
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First house in trentham road in 91 was £19000, next was £58500 in martyrs close cheylesmore in 2000, then the chesils in styvechale in 2002 for £122500.
Prices now £120k in hill fields, £200k in martyrs close and probably £340 in the Chesils. It’s madness
Covkid1968#
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Thought I’d just check on the Membership thread........ think I’ll come back later.
letsallsingtogether
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I know my daughter is trying to buy a house in Manchester the prices are higher then Coventry for a half decent area.
When I got my first house I worked At the Jag Daimler as a setter Operator on £147 a week good money in those days, good job my wife worked as I got made redundant 3 years after buying the house. With high interest rates and a new baby is was a struggle.
Time moves on but the struggles are the same.
Brighton Sky Blue
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I wasn’t having a dig the number just stood out for that reason. Interest might be lower but just affording the deposit is too big an obstacle for many
Houchens Head
Fairly well known member from Malvern
Being an old git (68 today - yeah, yeah alright, happy birthday etc!) I live on a state pension, along with Mrs HH. Pooled together it totals about £1200 a month. Out of that we pay £500 rent, plus all other bills such as electric, gas, phones, internet, council tax and food. Not a lot left each month.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Surely you qualify for some kind of shagger's bonus?
Mild-Mannered Janitor
Kindest Bloke on CCFC / Maker of CCFC Dreams
I don’t think anyone expected that to happen, it was a very nervous time to buy at that time but I also agree that the generation now are worse off relatively and interest rate increases would destroy them. They may end up in a better situation from money potentially passed down to them from the final salary pension generation and the real hardship will be the generation after as this generation will have had to use that money but that’s a big generalisation and there will be so many individual circumstances that these comparisons and comments cannot cover.
Happy belated birthday then you slightly older git .
