To wonder how people in ww2 paid their rent and mortgages?

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It's not really aibu, but chat isn't working for me this morning.

If a man was conscripted and was a soldier in the war. Did he get paid? Was it enough to cover rent / mortgage?

I guess single people just gave up their rented houses? What about families?

Yes there was.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33566789

Seems someone killed someone and hid their body in a bombed out house.

Fascinating thread.

My family was and bits still are posh so home ownership was more common. However, still less expected than today because the costs of maintaining a home were very high, particularly in wartime when materials were very scarce. People bought or built homes in the expectation of having a family and houses were expected to be full. Prior to the war a man was only supposed to get married if he had a regular income enough to support a wife and children who might arrive every year. So the age of marriage was quite late. Unmarried sisters and elderly parents might need supporting too. I'd imagine that quick marriages in the war might not only be because people might die soon but also because the forces pay was a regular secure income.

My mother left home at 15 and moved to the nearest city and got a job in a hotel where she met my dad. She married at 17 and my dad signed up for the army on the day war broke out two years later. She was left alone in a rented house which she gave up and moved back to her home town until she too joined the army.
After the war my parents rented a house. Wages were paid in cash and my mum used to put money for rent, electricity and insurance etc into separate tins.
Hardly anyone had a bank account or a mortgage. Buying anything on credit (hire purchase) was frowned upon and people saved up to buy things.
Newly weds moved into rented houses with no furniture or had old stuff given to them. I had two older sisters born after the war but I was not born until much later when my parents were better off so I was always told I didn't understand what hardship was, although we only got new clothes at Easter or Whitsuntide and toys were only at Christmas or your birthday.
I only had three pairs of knickers and two pairs of socks at any one time.
When my oldest sister got her first job, she gave my mum all her weekly wages and was given less than a pound back for herself.
It all seemed perfectly normal back then but I suppose that maybe why my generation think children today are spoilt.

My MIL, who was single, was conscripted into an arms factory, so she sublet her rented flat to a family and moved back in again after the war. Yes she was paid and probably more than she had previously earned as a shop assistant.

My grandparents bought a 'villa' in 1933 i.e. a standard 1930s semi, for cash for £330. GM paid for it, with money she had inherited from her father. Grandfather paid her back and only his name was on the deeds. That's how it was in those days. They were relatively well to do, and ran a car before the war, but gave it up when the war came, and never had a car again. Holidays were two weeks at the seaside in the same boarding house each year.

DM and DF married in 1948 and rented rooms at first with a landlady who provided meals. Later they managed to rent a cottage, and only a few years later managed a mortgage.

My grandad fought in WW2 and grandma worked as a "civil servant"......I think she was a secretary. My mum had to start school when she was 3yo so her mum could work and had 3yo had to catch a bus across Nottingham with her 5yo sister, no adult with them. Think they actually had to change buses in the city centre as well!

DHs family had a large small holding so it was all dig for victory......but they were paid for the excess produce. They also allowed their barns to be used for storing non perishable food items for distribution and were paid for the use of the barns.

Btw, I went to uni in the mid/late 90s and one halls of residence was still shared bedrooms!