Originally Posted by Lee Reynolds
House prices? They were underpriced to start with and have done a major catch up. Young people moaning they cant afford them...its cause they havent saved up for a good deposit...they have 'lived for today' as they say and pissed thier money up the wall
(*some) Most people around my parents age say it was just the same when they were young...very hard to get on ladder...
Bollocks, pure and simple. Underpriced? My arse! If anything they are vastly overpriced now!
and "Young people moaning they cant afford them...its cause they havent saved up for a good deposit" - again bollocks. Maybe some, not me. I have lived like a pauper for years scrimping and saving, and I have now over £10k tucked away for a house deposit, and a little bit more "thanks" to my grandad passing away and leaving me some dosh. I have lived on a showstring under the realisation that house prices, over the last 5/6/7 or so years have risen a good 12-16 times faster than wage rises!
so I have the deposit, thats fine. You tell me tho how I am supposed to afford a £120-£150k house on the money I earn? (which I bet is a damn sight less than you)
And it'd be easy to say "get another job then" - not as easy as that, as pretty much anyone out of work knows. I am skilled and learnt a trade, but it's quite a specialist trade (maybe 2500-5000 in the whole of the UK do it) and other than that, I am not qualified in anything.
I don't see why the government and the estate agents should dictate to me that I should carry on living at home till I am 30-odd, by which time my wages would have risen maybe 4% (adjust to inflation and cost of living) while house prices have gone up another 20% or more.....
Either way, gonna vote blue as there's always the chance of em bringing about another housing price crash
