@JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows
But I had the virtue of buying when it was MUCH easier to buy, jobs were ten a penny and I lived in a place where housing was reasonably priced. My property was £65k so I only had to our £6.5k deposit down. These days people are looking at £40k deposits. But I don't say "Ee by gum I were buying me first property at 21 I had to work 3 jobs so if you want it just do t' same otherwise yer a spoilt bastard"
You did actually accuse a pp of needing a husband to get a mortgage and then you told her to "go to bed". Why the need for the constant ad homonem attacks?
FWIW I live in a part of the country where FTBs are very affordable (no, don't demand I identify it and myself on the internet as you did with the OP), yet for some reason young men and women tend to be reluctant to leave home until they are in a relationship and can buy a family style prooerty. I've met so many spoilt brats up here and yes I do notice a difference from when I lived in a different European country regarding how much people in their late teens/twenties can do for themselves.
It's so limiting in terms of job opportunities to stay at home too. For my graduate job, I had to move to another, bigger city to get the best opportunities. If I'd stayed at home and commuted into the nearest city, that would have been a 1 hour 15 minute daily commute.
My FTB, not that long ago, was a rundown small flat which I decorated and did DIY on myself. There is nothing wrong with that. And I would never, ever date a man who still lived with mummy and daddy in his thirties. No matter how much money he had saved.
I do also find that a lot of people complaining about affordability, when you do a search on their area, you find affordable one bedroom properties which are in unfashionable areas and needing redecoration. But so many people want family sized shiny new builds as their FTB. There was a newspaper article recently depicting a couple in their twenties, one of them worked part time, pictured standing outside a 300k 4 bedroom detached new build with sad faces, bemoaning the fact that they couldn't afford it and therefore couldn't move out of their parents' home. I kniw for a fact that there's a one bedroom period flat with large rooms for sale there for 75k. 2 bedroom flats for 90k plus. 3 bedroom semis on older estates for 120k upwards. So unless the parents are conveniently located in London, or Surrey or Berkshire or similar, there often are more affordable choices than people lije to make out. There's a lovely one bedroom period flat for sale with an over 900 year lease in Ryde right now for 90k of anyone'interested..