Housing crisis!

[Matt J]

I think you have to bust your guts to get anywhere now-a-days and the millenials can't be asked. My step daughter is 18 and her generation want everything new and now and are in for a shock.
Bought my current house 10 years ago on my arse (after first marriage divorce), borrowed 5.5 x income had a baby on the way, house was a mess, rotten, damp and just a bit infested. Had £2k to do it up. Doubled the value now but had to cut back for years (no sky, iphones or that mallarky). The next generation (for the most part) ain't got it in em.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Back un the 00s, in our first real house together Mrs Denham & I ordered some garden furniture, Taj, our neighbour, well into his 90s then, saw the receipt and swore blind his house cost less than our furniture.
Well, he did buy it for £325 cash in 1946...

[Orcs]

I think you have to bust your guts to get anywhere now-a-days and the millenials can't be asked.

Yep your right, they want it now and and new.  Suggest a second hand anything and they look at you like your mad.

My late parents bought their large 3 bed semi with an additional plot for £1250 in 1946. that barely pays your monthly mortgage now.

[Sunray]

I am reminded of pre Monty Python sketch  - "we were so poor " 

[Ithoriel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE

[Leman]

Yep your right, they want it now and and new.  Suggest a second hand anything and they look at you like your mad.

My late parents bought their large 3 bed semi with an additional plot for £1250 in 1946. that barely pays your monthly mortgage now.

In  1946 my parents were earning 10 shillings a week. £1250 was an awful lot of money then. People forget that what sounds like a piffling amount so many decades ago was a massive amount. I bought my first house in 1980 for £11,500 but at the time I was earning less than £3000 a year and had spent 6 years saving up and living in bedsit land after graduating to be able to raise the mortgage. Income tax and interest rates were also a lot higher back then.

[mollinary]

In  1946 my parents were earning 10 shillings a week. £1250 was an awful lot of money then. People forget that what sounds like a piffling amount so many decades ago was a massive amount. I bought my first house in 1980 for £11,500 but at the time I was earning less than £3000 a year and had spent 6 years saving up and living in bedsit land after graduating to be able to raise the mortgage. Income tax and interest rates were also a lot higher back then.

The voice of sanity. In 1986 I bought my first house, a two up, two down, central terrace for £33,000. My salary at the time was £12,500pa.  I had just joined the Civil Service, and we were told by the Deputy Under Secretary for Personnel (in spite of the title, a very senior civil servant!) that he had bought his house on joining the service at the same grade I had. It had cost him three times his annual salary. It was now worth six times his current salary!  That was then, and things have only got worse.

[Westmarcher]

What I want to know is how the thread started in the New Releases section under the heading of Burnt out houses released! then the heading changed to Ruined Houses released on the first reply (thanks to Nobby?) for a few posts .... then turned up in the Chat & News section under Housing Crisis! before the heading changed yet again to Ruined Houses released !



Definitely Monty Python! 

[Orcs]

What I want to know is how the thread started in the New Releases section under the heading of Burnt out houses released! then the heading changed to Ruined Houses released on the first reply (thanks to Nobby?) for a few posts .... then turned up in the Chat & News section under Housing Crisis! before the heading changed yet again to Ruined Houses released !



Definitely Monty Python! 

That is the delight of the Pendraken forum. Start a thread on "Buttons of the Serbian Army in 1821" and four posts later your discussing the merits of breast implants and if they feel like real breast when you play with them. 

Actually that's a question I would like answered - will start another thread

[fsn]

I am reminded of pre Monty Python sketch  - "we were so poor " 

Um actually, it was the 1948 Show, not the Monthy Python.* 






*Graham Chapman, John Cleese but joined by Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Felman.

[fsn]

What I want to know is how the thread started in the New Releases section under the heading of Burnt out houses released! then the heading changed to Ruined Houses released on the first reply (thanks to Nobby?) for a few posts .... then turned up in the Chat & News section under Housing Crisis! before the heading changed yet again to Ruined Houses released !

Hang on, how come I'm getting the blame for this? 

Surely the default rule on this forum is "it's Techno's fault"?

[Orcs]

Surely the default rule on this forum is "it's Techno's fault"?

No Nobby, as you should be very aware from the "Techno sticking plasters" incident where you sent Techno sticking plasters via Amazon ,  the default on this forum is "Blame Nobby regardless of the facts"

[fsn]

True, true.

It's a burden I bear with great nobility.

[Subedai]

True, true.

It's a burden I bear with great nobility.

Shouldn't that be 'with great nobby-ility.'

Already gone.

[fsn]