What Is The Average Age Of The Bears On This Site?

[Guest Daddy Bear]

I thought it would be interesting to see how age effects the chance of someone being a housing bear

I reckon alot of people on this site have memories of the last crash, so consequently bears are a little bit older. The bulls having been too young to notice the last crash, are generally going to be the first time buyers driving the market. Hence why it took 10 years for the next boom to start to develop into a bubble.

DB - 30 years old (young but wise)

[theChuz]

27

[adamUK]

32

[2005]

36

Why not start a poll?

under 21

21-30

31-40 etc etc....

[newaccount99]

37

[Come On Down]

34.

And I remember The Price is Right! What a quality show that was.

[ETOPS773]

23 Part of the button moon generation

Edited January 7, 2006 by ETOPS773

[IP Newcomer]

24. OK, 34.

At the get togethers it seems to be overwhelmingly late 20s to mid 30s. Perhaps that's more of an internet thing.

[mon-keyhanger]

52

[underpressuretobuy]

I thought it would be interesting to see how age effects the chance of someone being a housing bear

I reckon alot of people on this site have memories of the last crash, so consequently bears are a little bit older. The bulls having been too young to notice the last crash, are generally going to be the first time buyers driving the market. Hence why it took 10 years for the next boom to start to develop into a bubble.

DB - 30 years old (young but wise)

We have already had this poll a few months ago.

Most HPCers then were in their 30s.

I don't know if anyone can find the thread?

[Boughtin95]

48 (49 next month) and wondering how the hell I got this old so fast.

[a j]

34 - I do remember the last crash

[theChuz]

We have already had this poll a few months ago.

Most HPCers then were in their 30s.

I don't know if anyone can find the thread?

http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/ind...topic=14868&hl=

I was 26 back then

[Guest Winners and Losers]

35

http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/ind...topic=14868&hl=

I was 26 back then

[Minimind]

35

[the don]

50

amazingly, the world has not ended(yet)

[dunroamin]

a lady never reveals her age.

33

[El_Pirata]

26

[dude]

45-ish. Can't really remember and don't really care!

[ellenmyfanwy]

42...aaaargh... but at least i remember the last two crashes.

[TheJudge]

33

Think it was about when I was heading off for Uni when the last crash started off. But I remember vividly people talking about it and the newspaper headlines. It didn't affect me directly but it still seemed quite shocking - I'd only ever heard of house prices rising.

Knew of well-off people who had over-extended themselves just before and were majorly scr*wed. And then six years later would still bump into people who had become FTBs just before the crash and were still trapped by negative equity.

There are people younger than me (so even less likely to remember the crash) who are still wary. Now that all of these websites give easy access to previous prices paid they can see how much houses were selling for a few years ago (alot less) and think "this is crackers".

[Battenberg]

34 and working in mortgage applications during the last crash.

[Plastic Elastic]

37

I did not live in this country before 1997 so no idea about previous crashes.

Edited January 7, 2006 by Plastic Elastic

[jonsfedup]

31 and I remember the crash the last time round my father lost a lot of money on a self build.

Edited January 7, 2006 by jonsfedup

[mxs]

37

Just old enough to remember the last crash and hopefully learn from history.

I remember starting a job in 1995 and my boss was stuck in a dreadful starter home in the worst bit of Stevenage with lots of negative equity.

Still makes me shudder - life is too short to go through that sort of thing.

Edited January 7, 2006 by mxs