To not want to buy property for fear of WW3?

[Vizella]

Hi all,

I’m finally getting to a stage where I’ve saved enough for a house deposit, earn well in a remote finance job and am willing to leave London to go to South Yorkshire and buy a house.

Then a niggling thought in my mind says, if your house is destroyed in WW3, all your savings will go down the drain and you will be left destitute.

I appreciate that it’s a crazy thought to have but Iran and Israel are at each other’s throats and Russia has no intention of backing out of Ukraine. When people had their cities bombed in the past, how did they survive?

Tell me if I’m being unreasonable? If so, why?

I am not actually sure of that. my SILs fled Israel within months of war breaking out and i am almost 100% if they had an otherwise comfortable life, they would have stayed. War is doubly hard when you are moving from rental to rental every year in the best of times and when you are struggling to afford groceries

Another friend I know (gay guy in a great job and who can easily afford his rent) is absolutely thriving in Israel, he says he wouldn't return to London cos its so dangerous compared to where he is (not sure i agree with him but there you go). He can even afford to go on holiday during the war.

One practical piece of advice I followed and others I know is to avoid buying a property susceptible to rising sea levels and localised flooding. Ie not near a river or beach. I deliberately filtered houses when buying for ones on higher ground (in a town).

I think they mean the Great British Pound :p

I currently live like a poor person and have been poor for most of my life. I don't want to go back to that.

America..well, unless you want to live close to Canadian border and cold weather.

OP, I'm late to the thread but wanted to let you know that I was born in the 60s and my mum was very into CND. She used to tell us to live for today, because we probably wouldn't get to see adulthood. She even kept a drawer full of medicines for making a suicide soup when the bomb fell. (I realise this sounds kind of weird.)

Well,the bomb didn't drop and we are all still here, my mum included. She still works, partly to make up for that pension she didn't bother building!

Sure, anything can happen, but you can't plan for all eventualities so I recommend living as if there is a future!

Well yes, except that would be Sterling ….

Exactly this..

Totally agree with this... 2024 Doomsday clock shows that we are in a moment of historic danger right now.

If/when WW3 kicks off, the use of nukes will mean we all get anihilated.
And there won't be anywhere 'safe' to go to.
The radiation poisoning will get you wherever you are. Then think about 'nuclear winter', famine, ecological collapse..

Luckily, we have a nuclear base just 30 miles up the road from Glasgow, which is bound to be top of the target list, so should be assured of a more instant death than anyone who tries to 'escape' by living somewhere more remote...

OP: watch 'Atomic People' on BBC I-Player, about the two bombs dropped on Japan 79 years ago. And be aware that there are now over 12,000 (much more powerful) nuclear weapons in the world. If even a small % of them go off, humans are fucked.

If you are seriously concerned about this issue, then please take action rather than fretting about whether or not to buy a house. There are loads of campaigning groups like CND which you could join/ support. It would be great if the UK decided to sign the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - read more about this at https://jointheban.icanw.org/

I agree with you. The best thing you could do now would be to dig out an air raid shelter in whatever land you can get your hands on.

Maybe, like me, they watched the documentary at school in the 1980s about what would happen in a nuclear attack. I was always quite reassured that, given where I lived, I 'd be likely to be wiped out immediately.