To think that this is a prime example of the entitlement from some people in this country?

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Someone on a large FB group that I am on posted yesterday to say that they want to move abroad and gave examples of a couple of countries that they want to go to.

They then said that they live in council housing here so would need to be 'housed' over there and how do they go about getting housed?

Basically they wanted to move abroad and get given that country's equivalent of a council house/social housing on arrival.

AIBU to think this is the absolute height of entitlement?

There’s no such thing as ‘council housing’ It’s social housing. HTH

https://www.gov.uk/council-housing

HTH

Depending on area some places still.have Council housing ,some places have purely housing association housing and some have a mixture .

Have they said that they hope to contribute to Australia or the US? Why do they think they’d be wanted?

I think it shows that half of people have below average intelligence and you just found one of them.

It’ll be the same sort of person who applies for a loan with my company and when I ask them for ID they say I haven’t got any and are shocked when I tell them if they want the loan they’ll have to go and get some ID, and yes it may inconvenience them or even cost them some money, but I can’t just take their word that they are who they say they are.

@Tatumm I did say social housing in my post. Maybe read the whole post?

Wonder if that person has considered what they have to offer the countries they’d like to move to and be accommodated by.

YANBU

Do you think that council houses are rent free?

Did they, aye?

No I can’t be bothered. Challenge them directly on Facebook if this is even real.

Now wouldn't that be nice, goes with the free goat too.

Yep. The same old misinformed shite trotted out that social housing = benefits. Once more: not all social housing tenants are in receipt of benefits. Most work and pay the rent

There is a difference between paying your way and something being free. Paying your way implies that you are covering all costs associated with the housing your are living in.

A thread earlier this week proved that social housing is indeed subsidised. The operating costs may often be covered by the rent charged but the state often helps with the capital needed to build the properties. Considering most people with a mortgage know all too well about the cost of capital when they pay the interest each month, it's fair to say that social housing is heavily subsidised and anyone living it isn't quite 'paying their way'.

@Tatumm yes it is real and I am happy to tell people the name of the FB group via PM if they want to know

And yes I agree with those that say social housing is subsidised

Mortgage holders got help for years with artificially low interest rates. That’s a subsidy

Unfortunately these freeloaders have milked the system so much, the system is running dry here. Generations upon generations of lazy people with no intention to ever support themselves, just leech off other people.

Not paying their way? How? Private renters cost the UK more in benefits because the rents are higher. Those with mortgages have been heavily subsidised by low interest rates. Pick pick pick. Go and petition for the wealthiest companies to pay all the taxes they should. Bet you know someone who employs an accountant to make sure they don’t pay full tax because of all the loopholes there are out there.

That's daft, and not how the banking system works. There was no subsidy, prices were just low because they were linked to interest rates (which is linked to many things, but not subsidisation).

Unless, of course, you think that everybody's food and utility bills were also being subsidised, since prices were low there too.

I'd say that's a prime example of naivety and stupidity.

The Bank of England kept the interest rates artificially low. I’m not talking about other bills etc

I don't think that's true anymore.
The Financial Times did the numbers on this. The poorest 20% of people in Poland (and about seven other Eastern European countries) are now better off than the poorest 20% in the UK. They may earn less, but their costs are a lot less (rent, taxes etc) leaving them better off than poor people here. If the trajectory continues, the bottom 50% of people in Poland (and the other places) will be better off than the bottom 50% in the UK by 2030.
We voted for this!

You seem to be writing your own narrative here with blatant lies.

A third of households that privately rent claim housing benefit whilst two thirds of those that rent social housing claim. The rent that private renters pay is often taxed as income for those landlords in a way that social housing rent isn't. Social housing is expensive for the country and this is why it is a limited resource. If it genuinely paid its way in all regards then there would be a lot more of it around.

Mortgages have never been subsidised by the government. Mortgage holders benefited for many years from low interest rates in the same way that anyone that took out credit has. Now interest rates are higher they are not being penalised by the government either but simply paying the 'going rate'.

What does taxation of corporation's or rich people have to do with whether social housing is subsidised or not? Why does this have to be mentioned on every thread about someone not paying their way? It's such a lazy argument that nobody has to worry about paying their way unless everybody else is doing this. I wonder if you would teach your children this moral when taking about other aspects of life.

Do you know what this person does for a living?

You think what you like. Leave my children out of your replies.