On 30/5/06 13:03, "Sarah Eggleston" wrote:
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> Karen ***ton wrote:
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>> On Wed, 17 May 2006 15:53:16 GMT, Stuart Rogers
>> <stuart.rogers.clara.co.uk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> Good news: my promotion came through - I'm now in the privileged
> "company car" band, ...
Yay!
>>>> What are people going to do? There are no "starter" homes for
>>>> young couples.
>>>
>>> I don't give a toss about them - it's us old singles I'm worried
>>> about!
>>
> They are solving that around here ... by building "affordable" housing
> on most grass verges.
Indeed. Usually alongside motorways or railways. And then using
some definition of "affordable" of which I'm utterly unaware.
Sometimes "affordable" means you only buy half of it so that, hey
presto!, your mortages payments are halved - but there's no mention
that the rental on the remaining half makes the total monthly
repayments exactly the same as for buying the house outright.
[<SFX: Sound of Stuart climbing onto his current hobbyhorse>]
> Natch, just that at the moment you can't afford to buy a house unless
> you have at least 2 salaries, and preferably at least one of them
> professional. Average UK salary is around 24k or so (I think), average
> house price is nearer 240k... 10x typical salary.
....and, in my area, even the very bottom end of the market is almost
five times that national average salary.
> Hence 1st time housebuying age is now over 30 and most people buy
> jointly with either a partner or a friend.
One of the reasons I want to buy my own house is to get away from
having to live with others and to be financially linked to others.
I'm considering possibility of buying a boat to live on - I can
buy one of those outright, and mooring costs are, relatively
speaking, peanuts.
> Oh and on a random topic, could I have a word with someone about Our
> Weather please. As far as I can tell it has Rained every single day in
> May so far, apart from a couple of Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Certainly
> every Weekend.
You want fine weather? Morethanmyjobsworthmate.
> The water companies are - just gently - considering the
> possibility of not enforcing a hosepipe ban ... this year... *yet*.
There's no water shortage, just lots of leaky water mains.
> It's the wrong type of rain, apparently. <obsmiley>
Tsk. Some people are never satisfied.
> -Sazz, and of course it rained on both bank holidays girl
Not in these parts, although it was a bit blowy - even on my extra
day off (for Queenie's day off).
> [1] Is it me or is that an investment op****tunity...?
No. It's only an investment if it increases in value compared to
similar products.
Stuart
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