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I *love how on Rightmove search, the shared ownerships options are something like "only shared ownership" and "shared and non-shared" Nowhere do they give you the option to exclude those awful places from your search *hate

Ouch! I'm really starting to see it now, it's over 60 quid for me

Also, according to Rigsby and his ilk, we should all be looking up to their poster boys and girls; people our age who took the plunge. Has anyone noticed anything about our supposed superiors lately and their attitudes to owning a house? I don't think one of my friends is now not regretting buying. Two of my friends, very wealthy during the boom, bought on enormous 400k plus mortgages, living the dream. Both are now absolute wrecks, working all hours on massively reduced incomes (no bonuses), and very stressed. Another friend and his missus are down to one salary and really struggling. Absolutely zero prospects. My brother and his missus are absolutely skint, only keeping their heads above water on SVR that's, you guessed it, interest only. What losers the rest of us are!! Quietly saving every month

Important points, lost on a cretin like "Rigsby" He's exposed himself here as a troll, I suggest his posts are ignored and treated with the contempt they deserve.

No, they haven't.

We learnt our sense of entitlement from our parents. They never tire of telling us how they all slept in the same bed and ate bread and dripping whilst now sitting on their decking of their detached homes. LIFE HAS CHANGED, we have no intention of living how you did when you were our age, same as you have no intention of going back to those times.

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I must say, I'm so pleased there is now an abundance of media articles about the priced out generation and how bad rental law is in this country, how it favours BTLers over "hard-working families" In the warm afterglow of the initial crash, it's nice to see such mass revulsion and anger at the practice of BTL mortgages BTL addicts be warned; if this plague is going to end, it's going to end soon. No-one is sticking up for you anymore. Sleep tight

Lower Ground Floor flats opposite Hyde Park in central London are about as representitive of the Lower Ground Floor flat market as Joseph Fritzl is representitive of the average parent. Why was there ever a house price crash before? In fact, why was there one in 2008?

Lower Ground Floor flats opposite Hyde Park in central London are about as representitive of the Lower Ground Floor flat market as Joseph Fritzl is representitive of the average parent. Why was there ever a house price crash before? In fact, why was there one in 2008?

uh-oh, you're losing the argument chaps paid less than a trolley dolley indeed, many people here aren't priced out in the slightest being concerned about house prices does not mean you cannot afford one

So it's just a power struggle then, as many have suspected. Especially with almost all Gatwick staff turning up to work, working for 3 years now on the terms UNITE got for them, the very terms that are being refused by the inflated egos at Heathrow.

Oh no, we all got your point Are you 12? The point is you're using two appalling examples for your straw man argument, both Police and Plumbers perform jobs that require significant training and expertise and are well rewarded accordingly. "Crew" are trolley pushers, who know where the emergency handles are. They should realise that, because one day that might have to perform a heroic feat, they are not all heroes. They've got hung up on the post 9/11 hero nonsense. Actually, my mistake, they clean up baby sick and settle drunk arguments, so are also babysitters and janitors.

Stop embarassing yourself

This post is spot on, as anyone who knows BA staff would attest to. Hilarious that "crew" [yuck] are being compared to plumbers, which is a highly skilled job and rightly well payed, and police officers, another highly skilled job that is far worse paid. Like it or not, "crew" are just waiters and waitresses who know where the escape chute handle is.

This can't be overestimated. Regarding a protest, it's a tricky one as, of all the things worth protesting about, and considering we all have roofs over our heads, it won't get much support, despite the destructive effects on our lives.

Sky are running a clip with this story of McRuin leaving Downing Street and getting into a limo. The smirk needs to be seen to believed. I've spotted him doing it before. He sort of smirks at the press that are present, looks along the line as if he's defying them to make a comment, and then slinks into the car. It's a very odd face; sort've a mixture of a retarded man being led away to prison and a smug dictator showing his contempt for those he rules over. Not long now everyone.....

Exactly. In fact, you don't need the expensive flying lesson, just load up Google Earth and gaze at the miles upon miles of empty land that is available to us. We just need to kill off all the NIMBY boomers first....

Sew up her ******ing crotch?

Yeah, I absolutely agreed with everything you said, I just thought either you or the host labelled your situation as priced out You were, as everyone has said, excellent value

First comment; Caller one, can you really claim to be priced out of home ownership with £70,000 in cash?

Hopefully it will appear here; http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r97pn or here; http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/listenagain/ For those of us who missed it

Long, hard correction sounds about right to me. The market will grind to a halt as no-one can raise deposits. Home-ownership will become a pipe-dream for even more people as prices slowly grind down to where most people can afford them again.

Really? honestly? Riding a bike to work is better than sitting, safely in the warm listening to the radio? By all means go for it if you enjoy it, but please don't try and claim it's more pleasant than driving to work. Not all journey's involve traffic jams and angry, aggressive motorists. Having to shower and change at work sounds like a ******ing nightmare.

Because any sane person would rather spend an extra 20 mins in bed and arrive at work refreshed without the aggravation and sweat of a bike ride to work?