Property News · November 28, 2017

I thought being a homeowner would solve all my woes – but it’s a bigger pain than renting | Stuart Heritage


As one of the gilded few who has managed to buy a house, the buck now stops with me, even if it means selling an organ to fix the boilerThe worst thing about millennials is their pathological compulsion to rise to the bait. Every couple of weeks, some click-hungry website will publish a story titled “Revealed: young people spend too much money on hair gel”, and then you won’t be able to move for apoplectic twentysomething outrage. “Hair gel isn’t even that expensive!” they’ll shout between coordinated bursts of avocado toast and Pokémon Go. The website gets clicks, the anger subsides and then the cycle begins anew. You could set your clocks by it.Most recently, all this bait-rising has been directed at the housing market. First there was the suggestion from an estate agent that young people are unable to afford houses because they spend too much on sandwiches, and then there was the article about the woman who actually could afford a house because she was prepared to put the work in, not like you ruddy layabouts. Both articles were, at heart, stupid – it’s hard to save tens of thousands of pounds by initiating a cost-effective bread substitution scheme, and it turns out the woman only bought a fraction of a house with the help of a lodger – but it didn’t matter. The bait was risen to, exactly as planned. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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