At what price a house?
The following is from Pippa Calver, Guild Ethical and Environmental Officer and BULS Vice-Chair Elect
Speaking recently to my grandparents and being told I should start to put some money aside for a deposit on a house fund I realised how differently the generations see property. I replied by saying that I’m not sure where I’ll be getting a job and don’t plan to buy a house until I am in a career enjoy and perhaps have views to start a family. I was met with shock. At the moment I see a house and mortgage as a big swinging ball and chain holding me down in one place, hindering my job possibilities because I don’t have freedom of movement, applying financial pressures and stopping me having a career break and travelling. this leads me to two questions………
1) Am I alone in my opinions?
2) Is it possible to do well in life without ever purchasing a house?
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I completley agree, I am certainly in no hurry to get a mortgage for exactly those reasons! I feel so sorry for my mates at home, we were talking about this a while back and some of them said their parents wouldn’t let them move out til they got a mortgage as renting was “a waste of money”. So they’re stuck at home when really they want to be renting with mates and having a bit more independence.
Owning a property may be nice but its not at all necessary, and I find it odd how we’re encouraged to be a more mobile workforce but at the same time to tie ourselves down to a house in one place.
see if i had the money i’d totally put it down on a deposit. I can’t see the difference between rent or mortgage obligations. I guess you have to view it more as an investment and ultimately if you want to move you can rent it out.
well, the french seem to do ok, savoir-vivre and all that. so rents the way forward.
The reason you think like this is because you’re a student leftie, if you get a real job after you leave Uni (as opposed to a political activist) you will soon realize the importance of your own place. Not still paying rent at 60, and able to decorate as you see fit being two examples. Also, attracting women at 30 yrs old by taking them back to your bedsit won’t get you far. It’s great being idealistic at your age, but real life will make you grow up.
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Ah Dave, if you want pompous self-righteous pontification this will only at its best be a pale shadow of what you’ll find at http://www.bucf.wordpress.com
BULS can only hope to be compared to BUCF. The last committee battered you, the next committee will batter you. Oh my god someone hand me a Tory membership form lol
C’mon, at least attempt to back up your opinions with something, else they’re nothing more than petty insults. You are trying to be provocative, aren’t you? Maybe the whole point of your visits here is to attempt to insult us, because you’re certainly not trying to convince. Then again maybe you are, merely, as you say, “angry” and … British.
Also, fix that UKIP link. The official UK Independence Party website is “.org” not “.co.uk”, not exactly a hardcore cyber-activist, eh?
“You are trying to be provocative, aren’t you?”
-If this is the case, giving a response certainly won’t help matters will it dear boy?
What does he mean by battered?
What I mean by battered is ran rings around. They took a society that was on the way out and revived it. If anything BULS has been in decline. They also ruffled a few feathers without resorting to personal smears. They just looked more professional and more successful as their AGM showed. Since you see yourself as a bit of a political guru mr matthew perhaps you’d enlighten us on your predictions for the local and european elections…
Im staying out of this one lol Although I think there are more pressing things to be talking aboutt han this petty politics. Perhaps BULS would like to enlighten us as to what they think should happen should, and I emphasise should, Labourr come 4th in the elections?
BULS has not engaged in any personal smears that I am aware of, Angry Brit. I take that as a personal smear against us.
I think Labour should come up with a bloody good almost radical manifesto that will give its grass roots faith it in again and prepare itself for the fight of its life.