whois they can rent a nice flat? Really? Where? We're in London. When I left home for Uni years ago - a time when books and travel were paid for, as well as grant - I came back home after Id graduated for a short time, my parents were fine about it, and then I moved into a 2 bedroomed council flat. My own tenancy. I liked my friends..still friends with some of them now. But Id had enough of living with 5 mates sharing kitchen, the arguments over who wouldn't keep the place tidy, do the washing up etc.
Do you really think that option of moving into council accommodation is available to young people now? Do you not realise that there is a housing crisis and certainly in London, any Tenancy Relations Office/private sector housing adviser can tell you the dire circumstances some people are forced to live in by unscrupulous landlords? & pay ridiculously high rents? Is there an idea that private rents are reasonable?
Yes of course not all landlords aren't bad, but a whole lot of them are, sorry. Look up what happens in south London its no big secret in terms of dodgy agents and its not just around here either.
Of course landlords kick people out. Of course people have minimal rights as private tenants..you can do up your home as nicely as you like, feel as settled and comfortable as you like, pay your rent on the dot. But if that landlord wants the property back then thats it..after he's served you with 2 months notice its bye-bye for you, unless you sit tight and he takes you to court and gets a possession order..that might give you a little longer but you still have to go.
This thing of private accommodation being presented as a lovely sunny flatshare and a definite possibility of almost lifetime accommodation is a myth. I didn't buy my own home years ago after Id left Uni..that was then. But if it was nowadays given the state of housing here Id definetely have stayed with parents and saved up to do so.
Why is it that young people have moved away from home gone to Uni, managed on grant for 3 years + worked, then if they want to come home for a bit and parent doesn't mind, its frowned upon? Whats the deal..once you've left the nest don't even think you can come back, or you will immediately turn into a mindless zombie unable to look after self?!
In general I can't fathom why some are harking back to the halcyon days of their own Uni education and pretending they lived on £1 per day, didnt go out, & managed to work hard + study...to the point I wonder well...when DID you actually study and revise, if you are presenting that you worked say more than 25 hours weekly whilst studying for a degree?!
Life now is not what it was back then. Its 2015 not the 1980s/90s or even early 2000s. I want my DCs to have an opportunity to live with me paying a cheaper rent than they ever could "outside", and to save for a deposit on their own home. They have a timescale in mind, they've worked part-time whilst at Uni, they know what the world is like. As far as Im concerned they're not idlers and they're my children so they can have a breathing space if they want to, and Im 100% prepared to offer that.