Quote Originally Posted by animallittle3 View Post
I worked 12 hours a day and 7 days a week to save up for my first house in 1987 , as you say it wasn't as easy as it's made out for our generation .

I was then hit with the interest rates rise as you were Mick and the deep recession , we cut back , simple as and I got a weekend job to pay the mortgage , labouring for a sparky .

My wife has two kids to her first marriage , they've both left home but rent , both of them earn over £40k a year and living with partners working and moan they can't get on the property ladder .

Here's the thing , both drive top of the range cars and on finance , they like to go out clubbing , meals out , cinema , two holidays a year abroad and own every tech gadget known to man .

Give me fecking strength .

I can only speak from experience. When I left school late 70’s - I could have had the pick of any jobs and had far more disposable income than the kids do of today. Doctors were on tap - there were selective state grammar schools for bright kids - universities were free for bright kids and oh yes getting on the housing ladder - it was easy as banks were throwing money at you including interest free mortgages which are a recipe for debt. Now the kids of today have to present a business plan to borrow 1,000 for
f uck sake! Banks have even stopped interest free mortgages because of the awful press and rightly so and mortgages are a nightmare to get compared with my first one in the early 80’s which were handed out like candy!

Even interpersonal skills with Covid have gone out of the window for boy meeting girl unlike the swinging 60’s and 70’s.

Don’t blame those on benefits either when they would be no better off on the poxy minimum wage!! I refuse to sell our goods on Amazon as this company is one of the biggest tax dodgers in history and why would I want to make these c unts richer!! You can’t attack those on benefits when you make people like Amazon richer by selling on their platforms or buying from them.

The best gift in my eyes a child can have is a first class education then it’s up to them! Even that’s been taken from the brighter kids of today with the old 11 plus axed due to bitter parents whose kids were too thick to get in.

Everyone to their own but I found the 70’s and 80’s easy compared to what’s been offered to kids today. I even know a mate who was allowed in the 80’s to have mortgages on 15 rental properties ( not much asked ) and now he’s super wealthy! Can you imagine someone doing that in 2023? T een suicides are sky high in 2022/23 because kids can’t see specialists ( unless private ) which were on tap in my younger days.