Both my dc bought their own houses at 23 AMA

[joezoealfiecasperoli]

I hear a lot about this generation not getting on the property ladder and it is a big problem. I was amazed when both dc finished uni, got jobs and bought houses within 2 years of graduating.
To avoid drip feed
Yes they are mortgaged
They both bought with partners

I don’t think the house prices are funny, I’m angry about it all the time and scared for my kids futures but can’t do anything to help set them up because my outgoings are so high. We haven’t been abroad since 2016, we never eat out or have takeaways, shop on Vinted, keep family days out to forest walks and picnics to save money. You’d be shocked if I told you how much money comes through our household yearly, it doesn’t equate to how we live. It’s the OPs deluded post I thought was funny, like she’d done something special to beat the housing crisis and we could all learn from her ways

Why do you all live in an area where you can’t afford to do a normal thing like by a house?

Why live there?

So why aren’t you?

Totally normal and do-able depending on where in the country you live. Impossible for London.
Daughter works in the city and earns very well and could never afford to buy alone… she could easily buy a house elsewhere…. 🙄

Because we live and work here, as does our support network

Well she has. She’s decided not to live in London or the SE which, I’ve learned from this thread, appear to be over crowded, over priced hell holes where children all leave home as teenagers and pay thousands to live in a house with strangers until they’re in their 40s.

Then scrape a mortgage together for a studio flat and take 30 years to pay it off, while going on forest walks, buying second hand clothes, having endless picnics and never doing a normal thing like having dinner out!

At the same time they laugh at and mock people who live in other parts of the country, are mortgage free in their 50s, let their children stay with them and save up for a deposit so they can by a house in their 20s and be mortgage free when the the people laughing at them have just managed to get one at 40!

Its madness.

Cant make sense of it.

The OP definitely wound 'em up and watched 'em go. Then went herself.

I couldn’t live like that. Im sorry you have to.

I’m not surprised she went. She’s proud of her children and has been polite throughout while getting mocked for it.

Leeds is indeed lovely. I went to uni there. As you probably know though it’s a big county and Rotherham is not quite Leeds!

Do you not think that’s like a Scottish person saying “well Glasgow is not quite Edinburgh”?

Who cares!

I bought my house 27yrs ago

for £81k - now worth £425k

south east prices are insane . But what we are used to. Seems madness to me that a house can be bought for just over £100k nearly 30yrs later

wonder what it cost in 1999 - £30k?

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