RE: Housing affordability now at its most stretched – as property price inflation outstrips earnings25 Jun 2022 15:47
machiismo
When bought our first home in the early 1970s, we had no car, holidays usually a week in NothWales went out the window, no going out for meals, and basic furniture in the home, I worked all the overtime I could get as most men did then. We had one small black and white TV which was rented!, a twin-tube washing machine bought on hire purchase (look them up and have a laugh) my wife washed the nappies no disposables then, no ready-made baby formula, no fast food takes aways, just a chippy. We both worked, and my wife had an evening job. In your babish mind you appear to think we were all born into middle-class Tory voting families, well your wrong most of us were brought on council estates or in privately rented houses.
And today people spend their money on far more useless things than an avocado or Netflix, you omit cable TV, expensive phones, ****tails when out for a drink, taxis here there, and everywhere, and two or three tvs per home, they want a home with as many bathrooms as bedrooms. They no longer want to wear a watch that just tells the time, they need a watch that makes a statement. Women now pay someone not just for their hair, but to apply their make-up and false nails and eyelashes !. There is a barber shop in our high street which charges £25.00 to shave a bloke's head! you can by a set of clippers for less than that.