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I think that better quality housing is just natural modernization, energy efficiency, onwards and upwards etc. If Thatcher's builder pals though they could chuck up drafty thin-walled houses they would have. Personally I could never live in a 'typical' house built in the last 20 years because...

I remember 15 years ago on the outskirts of Macclesfield where I had a connection some bloke was buying propery after property and letting them out, realizing that the rental income more than covered the mortgages. Once you crossed over a certain income threshold then it was basically free money...

It didn't help that slightly younger absolute thunderc***s (like two people on NSC) were relentlessly promoting Brexit to the uncommitted older voter who didn't have a dog in the fight, other than their nostalgic flag waving imperative, and their generational racism.

Then 40 years later some chancer **** of a prime minister could sell them to the owners at knock down prices, overnight creating a new army of white-van-man working class tories!

Superb post. Beware grumpy old man syndrome. That is part of the process we go through to prepare ourselves for death. If everything is getting shitter then it's 'easier' to give up and let go. Not for me, sir, oh no, sir, no. The reality is that everything changes and the skill set that...

Mate, I put him on ignore years ago. He's just a gobby nob.

Oh, quite. The lenders made us plebs feel like scum. But the gap between income and house price was hugely different from what it is now. I think my dad's first house was somewhat less that 3 times his salary. When I bought my house (age 32) the price was around 3-4 times my salary. The average...

That was a very narrow window that opened in the mid 50s and closed in the early 90s, when Thatcher's work over a decade finally put an end to the 'welfare state' and the 'post-war concensus'.

I would. In a shot. But for reasons unrelated to the thrust of this great thread :lolol: