{"id":127842,"date":"2022-07-19T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-have-downsized-to-a-smaller-home-and-it-has-freed-us-to-live-the-life-we-want-damian-barr\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T20:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T13:18:46","slug":"we-have-downsized-to-a-smaller-home-and-it-has-freed-us-to-live-the-life-we-want-damian-barr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-have-downsized-to-a-smaller-home-and-it-has-freed-us-to-live-the-life-we-want-damian-barr\/","title":{"rendered":"We have downsized to a smaller home and it has freed us to live the life we want | Damian Barr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAn estate agent asked why we were getting off the property ladder. But in our Victorian terrace we felt as if we were living out somebody else\u2019s script Downsizing is, let\u2019s be clear, a privileged problem \u2013 and not one I ever expected to have. I grew up in a series of well-built council houses in Scotland at a time when Margaret Thatcher might turn up with the keys in exchange for a sports bag of dirty fivers if you exercised your right to buy. My parents never could or would. A \u201cbought hoose\u201d was a distant dream, even as \u201cluxury units\u201d mushroomed around our village, neat new boxes popping up where slag heaps once sat. They triggered my aspiration, but also made me feel ashamed.I didn\u2019t live in private accommodation until university. Neither of my parents were supported to finish high school, so they knew nothing about university. They couldn\u2019t warn me about petty rules, how repairs can be late but rent never can be, and how you are always living on borrowed time. My landlady evicted me after finding me in bed with my first boyfriend \u2013 she cited the \u201cmoral\u201d clause in my contract, which I had missed. Legally, she was in the right. Luckily, I found a shared house to move to and swore I would never be so vulnerable again. Buying became about security, not prosperity. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/jul\/19\/we-have-downsized-to-a-smaller-home-and-it-has-freed-us-to-live-the-life-we-want\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We have downsized to a smaller home and it has freed us to live the life we want | Damian Barr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; An estate agent asked why we were getting off the property ladder. But in our&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-xfY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}