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Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 9510511)

Eh?.... we're going back to 1990 not 1890 :/ Wages aren't that dramatically different.

But thanks, you've kind of proved my point, the £25k house your cousin wanted was just over 2 and a half times her income... if you equate that to the £380k flat who is earning £150k per annum to pay for that? :/

The example I gave was kind of vague because it was a memory of someone else situation and rather depends on what year it was, where the property being purchased was etc. You can't prove a point when half the facts are missing. :shrug:

You are always going to have higher prices inner city and quite a few people nowadays earn 150k, particularly if it's a couples joint income if they work in the city. That isn't to say everyone does, it also doesn't mean every flat is £380k. There are plenty of flats for sale in and around London from around 80k in places like Plumstead, Plaistow and Stratford if you do a zoopla search. You might have to go a bit further like Watford or Croydon for something around the 50k mark though I did find one place at Canary Wharf for 65k. A lot depends on where you want to live and what compromises you are willing to make. Well actually it's a boat but what a pretty cool place to start from.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/de...062d18ab2a9fc4

Most people start out with something at a lower price and make revenue on the property to move up the ladder.

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Originally Posted by jaxie (Post 9511833)

Yes London is expensive but if you are a glass half empty person you will never get any where, we could have sat back and stayed renting, instead we took on a mortgage with one of us self employed with interest rates at 15 per cent, we have been through a few recessions but come out the other side, it was tough then and it is tough for people trying to do it now, it is the best thing we ever did buying our own place and I recommend everyone do it whether that be by part ownership right to buy or whatever, access the help and do it

I'm sorry but how can this video win over swing voters - especially from middle aged upwards

Momentum are isolating voters.

Also aren't momentum concerned that most young people are pro-Remain yet their leader is fiercely backing a hard brexit? It will come back to bite them in their arses.

It's blatant ageism and classism, saying that middle aged and middle classed people are Tory and like this. I don't like it.

And I'm not even Tory, I'm Lib Dem :fist:

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Originally Posted by Underscore (Post 9511902)

It's blatant ageism and classism, saying that middle aged and middle classed people are Tory and like this. I don't like it.

And I'm not even Tory, I'm Lib Dem :fist:

I agree with you 100%.

Maybe give everyone who is renting privately the option to buy their home at a big discount, the way council tenants do.

What a ridiculous snipey post, how can you buy someones private property?
Don't bother answering I an aware tat was directed at me for buying my house from the council.

update your avatar for goodness sake

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Originally Posted by jaxie (Post 9511833)

Hang on you brought the silly story of your cousins house up... Why even bother if nobody is to comment on your pointless tale then?

I am aware there are cheaper flats in cheaper areas fgs... I am using Cheries flat as an example to prove the exponential rise in the cost of once affordable housing in the capital and how some are simply priced out completely. Wow it's hard going to put forward a simple point here lately.

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 9516037)

update your avatar for goodness sake

No, stop derailing this thread please.

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Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 9516076)

No, stop derailing this thread please.

it needs help?

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Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 9516073)

Maybe because it isn't much of a point at all. :shrug:

I wasn't aware you were the post commandant. I was under the wild illusion we could post any silly story we liked.

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Originally Posted by jaxie (Post 9519565)

Maybe because it isn't much of a point at all. :shrug:

I wasn't aware you were the post commandant. I was under the wild illusion we could post any silly story we liked.

Isn't much of a point? You're eschewing my posts in reply to your confused ramble about your cousin, and yet you are accusing me of not making sense?

I'm not getting into any pointless to and fro with you, post your silly stories if you like I'll know better now than to attach any seriousness to them.