To think that, yes, people who rent like nice things too...

[Everythingnotsavedwillbelost]

I rent, I have done for years and at the moment it’s likely to continue. I have lovely furniture, my kids have lovely bedrooms & our life is normal and like everyone else’s.

Parent at the school last week ‘what, you own your own furniture when you rent?’

Aibu to think what the actual fuck? She clearly was amazed that as someone who rents a house, I might own furniture and shock horror, buy nice things?!

I just missed the boat housing wise because I don’t have a deposit & despite trying to save, can’t get a big enough mortgage.

Aibu to also think that this country’s perception of renters is so warped and out of date and actually just bloody rude

Serious question, how will you be able to pay your rent when you've retired (HOW do you get it bold??) I presume housing benefit would top up pension credit?

That's how it is at the moment, but people involved in social policy research have flagged up how colossally expensive this could be when "generation rent" reach retirement.

The proportion of people able to buy is getting smaller and smaller, and they are less and less likely to inherit the sort of sums that would enable them to buy late in life, as in many cases their parents' wealth will have gone on care home fees.

Some academics think that covering the housing costs of lots of old people, living longer and longer, could make the cost of social care pale into insignificance. And then when they have to go into residential care, the cost of that will fall to the state as well.

Going back to the furniture thing, when I left home in 1974, it was almost impossible to find unfurnished places to rent other than social housing. Furnished was the norm in the private rented sector. I don't know when that changed.

We were looking into moving closer to my children’s school due to her health, and the shock that people had that we actually wanted to live somewhere nice and wouldn’t just jump at the first place they suggested was quite something. Just because I am a lone parent with a disabled child doesn’t mean I don’t want a nice home, quite the opposite; we spend so much time at home, it’s so important to me that it is nice.

I've never heard comments about renting being "less" from anyone else but renters on MN.

Out of number of properties I rented, only 1 was unfurnished. It still had white goods and I thought that's standard in unfurnished until someone explained to me that it isn't after I said "What? You are buying a washing machine and fridge when you renting?"... I just always though it's included.

Everythingnotsavedwillbelost I've been asked how much our mortgage is, and I've asked friends. It's also really easy to find out how much someone paid for their house.

FrauHaribo why is it a twattish comment? It's generally true in my circle - we have all bought fixer-uppers which remain in need of fixing! Ours included. We are doing it up but it is slow, so most of the house is an absolute state.

I've never heard comments about renting being "less" from anyone else but renters on MN

Genuinely neither have I. But there is a load of threads on it on here, all from renters who are having to endure disparaging comments from their social circle.

In my experience people who rent often would love to buy, and will make comments about being sick of renting, in real life. I've never witnessed it the other way round, where it's home owners making the comments, but clearly there is a sub set of society who pull that weird shit.

l had a mortgaged property when l lived back up north. Since l moved to where l am now (Yorkshire) l've rented. To be quite honest, the places l've lived in here are much nicer than l had back home, and no way could l have got a mortgage to buy somewhere like where l live now - l didn't have much equity in my house up north, and l'm too old now to get a mortgage. l've got all my own furniture, and l've always rented unfurnished.
Admittedly, my rent isn't cheap, but l live in a lovely house on a nice quiet estate, and l have wonderful neighbours. l never had that back home. l don't go out, or smoke or drink, so l don't mind paying to live here. l'd much rather do that than live somewhere l hated. l'm not blowing anyone's inheritance, l support myself, and l love where l live. Each to their own, l suppose.

"when I left home in 1974, it was almost impossible to find unfurnished places to rent other than social housing. Furnished was the norm in the private rented sector. I don't know when that changed."

It's still the norm where I live now. It wasn't the norm where I lived before, which is why I have my own furniture and had to go to some effort to find an unfurnished place.
I now have two fridges: my own and the landlord's.

sheshootssheimplores As I said a serious question, because I didn’t know the answer, so it’s the tax payers that have to make up the short fall, I thought pension credit was disappearing with the new flat rate pension,
The welfare budget is going to be swallowed up by housing benefit in the future, with some rents £1000 and more

It amazes me that other parents whom you meet when picking up your children would know anything about your housing status. When I collected from school I didn't know who was a renter or a buyer and it would never have occurred to me to ask or make personal remarks. Nobody questioned me either.