To be sick of the property bragging on here lately.

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or is it just me?

For what it's worth, this is the property we have our eye on. It's all we can afford and at this price it's a push anyway.

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Worral - Dont know, do southerners get paid that much more than Northerners

I don't know either but I assume so. Perhaps it depends on where in the South you live.

I know a lot of people living on the outskirts of London, commute to London because the pay is better...so I just assumed

Molly. That's nothing. My DP has a massive cock AND a ribbed tongue....

You bitch K999 well my man can wrap it around himself and put it up his own arse!!!

But mollydollydoll I would imagine that with lots of money and a huge house one could get almost any sized cock one wants

Here £285000 would buy a very nice 3/4 bedroom detached with garden or a large Victorian semi.

K999 ribbed Tongue sounds awesome though defo something I'd brag about ;)

London weighting is about £6k isn't it? Which is not enough to cover the vast discrepancy in property and rental prices. Almost all of my Londoner generation (late 20s early 30s professionals, mostly arts/policy/public sector) are looking to move out in the next 3 or 4 years, because it's simply inconceivable that what our parents took for granted - 3 or 4 bedrooms and a bit of garden for the dog - could ever happen to us. Seriously, it's the cause of a lot of unhappiness and resentment. Ah well, worse things happen at sea etc. etc.

bloofer, you definitely need a magnolia tree. That or a willow - I love willows. Or preferably both (I had both, but sadly the willow appears to have died :()

Worral - im not sure, i know they get paid more. My MIL friend moved from London and she bought a 4 bed terrace in a nice area for 200k about 10 min from Newcastle. She couldnt believe it and said it would have cost about a millon where she used to live in London .

Is it bragging to say that the house we sold in London 8 years ago is now worth £1m, whereas the one we left for has gone up by about £50k, if that, since we bought it 8 years ago?
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yabu.

I'm with you on the bought wisely one. Luck has such a lot to do with it. And having parents able and willing to stump up a £40k deposit. I'm not bitter though 'cos DH is hung like a baboon.

The biggest most fancy houses I have read about on here were on the if you had a million pounds thread and another about if you won the euromilions. The key word in both headings is if so not really bragging.

Personally I couldn't even afford 85K never mind 285K. FWIW you could buy a 5bed detached for 285K around here.

I did have a £15k deposit for my first house, however that was a small endowment inherited from my mum who died when I was 21. My parents never owned their own house, couldn't afford to, but always wanted me to have my own home so I hope they would think I spent the money wisely.

God, we'd kill for a nice cardboard box, around here. It's damp soil and like it for my family.

Tortoiseonthehalfshell you spoilt cow, What I woudn't give for some damp soil. Only got some sand and 2 rocks here. I bet you grow things and all in it.

We were lucky . We bought our first cardboard box here in South Ken dahlink for tuppence ha'penny back in '92.

It's now worth at least £600K more than that not that I obsessively pore over Rightmove just to make sure

I think the op got the complete wrong end of the stick, I was one of those posting on the property thread, we werent "bragging" about our properties we were posting about what our "dream" property would be, I'm surprised you didn't get this.

Kitty - it's lovely to have had the deposit given to you, but it's very sad it was inherited because your Mum died :( If you have bought a house with the money, I'm sure they would think you've spent the money wisely.

Green - who is bragging now

I'm sure there are houses around now that will increase vastly as well over time - sadly I'm not in a position to go house hunting.

Maybe we need an MN syndicate for the Euro

YABU.

DO you know that some people can never even dream of buying, so your saying this is all you can afford is just as much out of reach for them as a 600k house.

This site is for anyone and if somebody wants help choosing their brand new cherry parquet flooring or asking for advice on which freecycle has the best stuff, what's it to you?

We paid £5,000 deposit on our first house bought together, asking price £108,000. We saved the money ourselves.

I am not in any way shape or form bragging! Kitty said how do people afford half million pound houses, I explained how it has happened to a certain generation of people in some areas of the country, all down to market forces.

I most certainly don't feel in the least bit smug about it - how are my dc going to afford to buy property?

"But I wouldn't live in a terrace in London for all the tea in China so it's lost on me" - pleased to hear that we are never likely to be neighbours then greenstocking . Because I can't see us "moving up" from our grotty little place at any point in the future as there's no way we could afford another £100,000 for a 4 bedder.

You didn't sound as if you were bragging in any way bibbity. Not sure why you were jumped on like that

I find the bragging bit, when people say what thier house is worth, as your house is only worth what someone would pay.

papermate - knowing what your house is worth in the market is not bragging. When it comes down to it, yes, it's worth what someone will pay for it - but you know what someone will pay for it. It's hardly bragging.