FBM wrote:Tell me about it! Back in my day, we were beaten with a razor strop until we were optimistic.Gerald McGrew wrote:Them youngsters....they don't know how good they have it!!! Not like in my day!!
Glad my parents never said anything like that about my generation.
Try telling the kids today that...Coito ergo sum wrote:FBM wrote:Tell me about it! Back in my day, we were beaten with a razor strop until we were optimistic.Gerald McGrew wrote:Them youngsters....they don't know how good they have it!!! Not like in my day!!
Glad my parents never said anything like that about my generation.
....if we were looky.
Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?FBM wrote:Try telling the kids today that...Coito ergo sum wrote:FBM wrote:Tell me about it! Back in my day, we were beaten with a razor strop until we were optimistic.Gerald McGrew wrote:Them youngsters....they don't know how good they have it!!! Not like in my day!!
Glad my parents never said anything like that about my generation.
....if we were looky.
Seriously, this is a very important post. It worries me, but I do not doubt its existential truth...FBM wrote:laklak wrote:Workhouses, that's the answer.
I like Korea's system of 2 years of mandatory military service. I can instantly tell which of my students have done it and which haven't. The ones who have aren't fuck-ups anymore. They know how to set a goal and make a plan to attain it. The ones who haven't still don't know their asses from a hole in the ground.
Or hid your despair by pretending to be.FBM wrote:Tell me about it! Back in my day, we were beaten with a razor strop until we were optimistic.Gerald McGrew wrote:Them youngsters....they don't know how good they have it!!! Not like in my day!!
Glad my parents never said anything like that about my generation.
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$str = str_replace(array("\{","\}")," ",$str);In the 80's there was a rental market especially public housing, these days if you can't afford a mortgage then you won't be able to afford to rent as thats almost always more expensive.Coito ergo sum wrote:I'm not saying they have it easier. They're saying they have it harder.Gerald McGrew wrote:Them youngsters....they don't know how good they have it!!! Not like in my day!!
Glad my parents never said anything like that about my generation.
Like I said -- oh, they are worried about getting good jobs and finding a house to buy? Well, join the club. It's called "Club Everybody" and we meet down at the Pub at 6pm.
Give me a fucking break -- oh, the humanity -- home ownership levels have sunk to their 1988 rates of 64%, so that means only nearly 2/3 are homeowners. Big flippin' deal. What is expected? 80% homeownership rates? Let me guess -- "we need to start doing more, and subsidizing the home ownership ambitions of healthy, relatively well-educated, able-bodied, young men."
Sounds like there must be a lot of homelessness there, then, if as you say not being able to afford a mortgage means you also won't be able to afford rent.MrJonno wrote:In the 80's there was a rental market especially public housing, these days if you can't afford a mortgage then you won't be able to afford to rent as thats almost always more expensive.Coito ergo sum wrote:I'm not saying they have it easier. They're saying they have it harder.Gerald McGrew wrote:Them youngsters....they don't know how good they have it!!! Not like in my day!!
Glad my parents never said anything like that about my generation.
Like I said -- oh, they are worried about getting good jobs and finding a house to buy? Well, join the club. It's called "Club Everybody" and we meet down at the Pub at 6pm.
Give me a fucking break -- oh, the humanity -- home ownership levels have sunk to their 1988 rates of 64%, so that means only nearly 2/3 are homeowners. Big flippin' deal. What is expected? 80% homeownership rates? Let me guess -- "we need to start doing more, and subsidizing the home ownership ambitions of healthy, relatively well-educated, able-bodied, young men."
What does this even mean? It was usually much harder to buy houses in the 80's, 70s, 60's and 50s, etc. Financing was harder to get. Down payments were higher. People saved for decades to buy houses "back in the day." It became easier, for a time, to buy houses because the financing options became easier to get, and cheaper. Houses get financed around here for 4.25% and for like 3% down payments, and the no-money-down mortgage is coming back, too. Not sure if those kind of rates are available in jolly old England -- what are the rates there?MrJonno wrote: It's very simple now if you want to ever buy a house ask daddy, that simply hasnt been true in the past
I was aware of that. That's why I said I wasn't sure if the rates were the same there.Scrumple wrote:The article applies to the UK. Whilst there may be some overlap with the states there are enough differences in conditions and national character to make some confusion fairly inevitable. So let's be tolerant here and make more light with less steam?
It would except there is a vast web of family connections holding the insanity of the UK together.Coito ergo sum wrote:I was aware of that. That's why I said I wasn't sure if the rates were the same there.Scrumple wrote:The article applies to the UK. Whilst there may be some overlap with the states there are enough differences in conditions and national character to make some confusion fairly inevitable. So let's be tolerant here and make more light with less steam?
But, it does sound weird that not being able to afford a mortgage would also mean that one would not be able to find a place to rent. Sounds like that would cause a lot of homelessness.
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