To think that sime homeowners regard themselves as superior to renters?

[malificent7]

Not all by any means but im a bit fed up of the 'well i work hard and lived off baked beans for 10 years.'
Well i work hard but cant save a penny as there isnt enough cash to stretch.
I find it hard to muster any enthusiasm when a friend shows me around the latest extension and starts talking about house values.
i just cannot relate.
Yes of course im envious but i made bad decisions when younger due to bad mental health issues.
I also feel like my ex friendship group split into homeowner/ non homeowner groups...maybe they have more in common although i do work longer hours....its just i dont live with a nain breadwinner atm.
Ive also been told by friends that i SHOULD get a mortgage...
I mean why SHOULD i if i cant afford it?
One friend said that homeowners take better care of their property...generalisation.

I feel sad as i find so many people money orientated..and snooty with it.

Isn't there anyone at college you could talk to, op? Mumsnet seems a very strange place to choose...

Sorry, wrong thread...

i recognise OPs user name Shes been here a while.

www.eveningnews24.co.uk/norfolk-property/norwich-resident-no-heating-hot-water-more-than-10-weeks-1-5363385?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social_Icon&utm_campaign=in_article_social_icons

Yanbu

And I say this as a homeowner (well, mortgage slave 😆) . Despite both working, H and I only bought through a stroke of sheer luck (came into a little bit of money enough to put half down as a deposit on a very modest house in a pretty shit area). But I’m very aware we wouldn’t have been able to do it without the above!

The housing situation in this country is absolutely beyond a fucking joke. normal working people priced out the market, extortionate rents and very little public housing 😠

social housing is no longer secure

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-42820424

One friend said that homeowners take better care of their property...generalisation.

One of my friends said that you can tell housing benefit renters by the state of the garden.

"Residents of a housing association in Essex have criticised plans that could see their homes demolished.

Genesis Housing Association is considering the future of Alexandra Court in Southend, which could see it torn down and a new block built in its place with double the number of flats.

One woman spoke of her dismay after being told it was her "home for life".

Genesis has assured tenants they would be re-housed at the same rents if demolition was approved.

There are currently 262 flats in the block on Baxter Avenue.

Brenda Philips, who has lived in Alexandra Court for 34 years, told BBC Inside Out East she was worried about the plans.

"When we moved in here we were told this was our home for life, and suddenly it's not our home for life," she said.

She said she was also concerned at being moved out of her home for about 18 months while the new homes are being built.

"They've suggested to some of the residents here that they might move in to bed and breakfast accommodation or hotels, or we could go to Colchester or Chelmsford," she added."

There's nothing to feel superior about in my case. Most of my colleagues rent and their places are much nicer than mine. I have a one-bedroom flat that I was lucky enough to buy 16 years ago, when the market was way down. It's in a very convenient location but absolutely tiny. The kitchen is the size of a toilet stall. My ex-boss is an expat and has lived here for over 30 years but still rents, paying the equivalent of 8000 GBP a month, which no way in hell could I ever afford.

this was posted on another thread so ive copied and pasted.

EggsonHeads Mon 29-Jan-18 21:39:00
"this is definitely a British mentality. I blame the proliferation of social housing across all socioeconomic areas (various studies have shown that it's common for people to feel spiteful, wronged, misbehave etc. When they see others getting more than they do), the great welfare myth (in other countries people just wouldn't believe that a healthcare system as shit as the NHS would be permitted to limp on, here people seem to have an emotional attatchment to it) and geniunine unfairness in a society where social mobility is genuinely difficult to achieve (in contrast to britain's colonial cousins for example). When I moved here I was actually quite shocked by how entitled and downright stupid a lot of Brits were. Thankfully Britain has a wonderfully large population and I can stick to mostly mixing with lovely, liberal minded, economically literate, mostly foreign/first generation British people who don't display this weird intellectual flaw."

some of the comments on this thread prove the point of the OP beautifully.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3155558-regeneration-or-social-cleansing