Growing share of under-30s in UK pay unaffordable rent - BBC News 

Yep for me I lost my job and with the price increases my savings have vanished over the past 8 months so now I will lose my home in 11 days not a thing I can do about it. And I am in my mid 30s with a child on the way. It is time we the people stand up for a fair deal for us and stop looking after the rich and stop caring for a capitalist economy people should always come first.

Because the bank is afraid of market crashing so they are careful of lending standard, and landlord likely owned the place for a long time so they have less mortgage burden.

Lot of places require 3 months deposit which is basically a down payment, so most people can't even rent there.

@@tomcapon4447 _exactly_

The system needs to change to Favor the poor

Government is being complacent its because most of the MP's including the PM are landlords too its all do with greed.

Another tory shill blaming it on a worldwide problem and yet we are the worst in the g7.

not complacent. Complicit. Something like half of all tory MPs are landlords. And before the current government collapsed I think about two-thirds of government ministers were landlords. they are just looking out for their own interests. And the interests of the house builders and property companies who donate to the tory party

Not all landlords are like this, we rent some properties out and haven't increased the rents since contract was made. Let me tell you also, tenants can be pretty ignorant too sometimes. Yeh I see where the gov is going with this, going to attempt to make private landlords take the bullet for their own incompetences that have lasted over many years. Incidentally I always said they were nuts closing down all these coal power stations and such. See how you all like not being able to ponce about in a T-shirt this winter now you lot. BBC journalists will be okay though on their salaries.

It’s not even about individual landlords. I’ve had 3 landlords before, there have been times where I couldn’t pay them rent and they literally let me off. It’s the companies that are the issue, they have no morals or heart, just profit in their mind

They could get capital if they worked to get proper career jobs. One works in a cafe and one is trying to become an actor. If they chose better careers and trained for them they would be able to get proper full time jobs. Most people understand they have to work hard in careers they might not even like to be able to afford a more comfortable life. This just looks like a dose of reality for these people. It is a pity their parents didn't advise them to work towards professional career jobs.

@@davidwebb2318 I didn’t have to work hard I got a 100% mortgage, and I don’t think you did either from the sound of it. Have some empathy for the difficulties young people face these days you dickhead

@@davidwebb2318 Nope. You're wrong. In almost every way measurable, millennials are doing worse financially than the generations that came before them and you're a complete idiot if you think its because everyone wants to work in a cafe or become an actor instead of having a career.

@@davidwebb2318 No offence but I feel like you’re closing your eyes to a very real problem here. Both my girlfriend and I have “professional career jobs”, earn above the average wage and still can’t afford to rent together. The prices are extortionate

@@davidwebb2318 that is extremely short sighted.. considering younger people are being employed because they are experienced, yet job sectors complain there aren’t enough experienced workers.

Its a problem in many countries. Some here pay more than 50% of their pay as rent so even after a full time job they have to apply for housing allowance. All went upside down after that our "wanna be USA" party let the rents loose, before the rents were bound so they couldn't rise the rents every year 1-5%. My personal rent for 38m2 has gone from 600 to 700 in 5 years. With my taxes I need to earn ~1900 a month to loose less than 50% of my pay to rent and I live 5km from closest "city center" 1km from the train so not even close to the expensive ones(there are jobs that still pays less than 1900 month in the city I live in). My personal thought in this matter is. "Why work when you gain the same standard of life with just sitting at home", plus that you get 40hours + 10hours more free time. So I do understand those that rather sit at home than take a job that pays the same or less than sitting at home. Yes as long as we live in an apartment that doesn't exceed the "luxury" limit the state will pay a certain share if your earnings are below a certain living standard. So some here say that the state is causing the issue but if they would forget their pay for a few moments and imagine only earning 1300 a month after taxes for spending 50hours a week on a job, paying 650+ rent then they would be able to feel the frustration of not gaining anything for their effort. Sometimes it feels like they are trying to create modern slaves. Rent's can be controlled and local food can be supported, so basic living should not be this expensive. Edit: This is if you live alone, it changes when you live with someone else and its also a lot cheaper if you live with someone because you get a 2 person apartment for 900 and 450 is then your share.

We are in a different situation to the USA. We have a small island and a certain number of houses but if the government allows millions and millions of people into the country and doesn't build houses for them then there is a huge difference between supply and demand. Either they are idiots all they have a plan that I don't understand.

let's all squeeze life out of each other

@@atomictraveller I know, but I'm starting to think its the only way to get the old bad blood out. If we squeeze enough the few in the world surviving might forget because this problem exists all over the world...

Seriously don't tell lie. Usa give lots of billions to Ukraine. You saying that usa people are suffering from without homes

And I imagine 18+ is also in the same boat here. The situation is if you don’t stay at home with your parents well into adulthood you’re screwed 😒

I am having to pay a good part of my state pension towards my rent. I have been on the Choose and Move council scheme for 3 years trying to get a much cheaper place

We're not at all priviliged compared to the boomers. They are also the ones who has enriched themselves at the cost of future generations.

The real money isn’t in building it’s in restricting supply and importing people to increase demand. Stop the white kids breeding and giving Council homes to foreigners and refugees from the Somme where bloody fighting is still continuing, hence the illegal “refugees”.

Landlords are harmful, greedy and unnatural parasites.

Get out of that shite hole London

@@C-eo1rt I agree with all of you, it's a unfair game we are playing nowadays with some players owning more than necessary and some others struggling to have a family... but compare to other places in the world we still are privileged, compered to other moments in the story we are privileged. Not all of us but most of us holds a 1000 phone in their hands and eat and consume and is never been so guaranteed as now. Now I don't know how much a landlord/lady pays in tax but I think a fair solution would be to reverse the housing taxation into easing the population's rents maybe by decreasing the taxes or possibly by finding a deal with the owners.

@hideen videos and clips dont click its a link to some video game on twitch.. 🗑

Go to Lewisham in London and think again. Where i live in south east london every bit of spare land is being used to build new homes. where there was a police station x2 there are new homes, where there was a swimming pool there are new homes. to build new homes takes planing. the British Government have made a GRAVE MISTAKE and are building new homes on flood plans. total madness.

They were forced to sell the council houses at below-market rates. And were then banned from using that money to build more homes. The purpose was to stoke the housing market and artificially boost housing prices because homeowners are more likely to vote tory when they are gaining unearned wealth from property inflation

@@GolfWhisky Can't blame the 10m imports. If you do blame the 10m imports. The question that needs to be asked why were 10m imported in the first place? Then the question that needs to be asked. Why did this country and many others export their own kind forcably into other countries? Stop the blame others narrative

Labour were just as much to blame for both high immigration and also not building houses.

Banks: "So how can we trust that you could pay 500 a month for your morgage?" Me: "Because I'm currently paying my landlord 1000 a month..."

Saying it is "insane" is one thing, what is the solution? I suspect the answer is to build more houses so they are available to buy at a reasonable price. That would have the effect of reducing rents because landlords would have to compete with the option of buying. We would also need banks to give mortgages with the borrower only having a 5 or 10% deposit.

Man I can’t even find a place with my brother. Landlords in NL just want couples and require 3x gross income over rent. It’s super stressful

Then move in with your partner;)

@Nemusis 999 that’ll probably lead to even less chance of a positive response 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Smart people moving to RUSSIA.

You mean whole Europe

"The average person would rather invest in bricks and mortar than a hard working business that employs others." This is not true, landlords are taxed at higher rates than people who run other types of business. That is why so few landlords will put money into constructing new houses to rent.

Its a raw materials and labour shortage. Tradesmen are in short supply because everyone went to get a degree....

Property is very much a business if you have uncontrolled migrants coming in, whom most of which are all uneducated. Doesn't help if you ship all jobs to china and the likes too.

I had a landlord rented out at rent -10% and all increases were in line with tenant agreement. Upshot, all houses were taken care of and he had the choice of tenants

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Living in a rural area would definitely be preferable to be living on top of each other in a freaking over-developed concrete jungle urban hellhole.

@@QuadMochaMatti Uh, no, I'm living it right now, definitely not preferable.

Rural areas are considered preferable by most people though provided they're okay with the fact there's less opportunity, this isn't a country where infrastructure is much of a problem

Hello A. can I ask you a question if you don’t mind?

@@jamespatrick20906 ...Yes?

@@AliceP. where are you from

Can I ask, where do you live?

@@AliceP. true all problem

you shouldn't have supported ukraine lol

Intervention has already happened, a large portion of income is being diverted to Ukraine at the moment which will keep on occurring.

​@@leftright313 nice conspiracy theory, did an adult help you make that up?

@@BritishEngineer nice conspiracy theory, did an adult help you make that up?

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As if going to uni should be only way you can afford to live anyway

Yeah I remember seeing that in the US the student loan amount is in the six figures it's becoming to become ridiculous

@@petetong3166 most uni graduates are starving more than non -uni grads cos they studied worthless subjects like English literature or gender studies. They'll serve coffee forever. If you didn't go to uni then you are supposed to run a business. If you don't go Uni, what do you do? You have no student debt, extra savings and the freedom to start your business. What's your excuse bro??

ah feel that pain so bad, graduated and got my first graduate job was cut short due to Brexit which cut the project was working on

Which part of ny did you live in, and job were you doing why your rent was so much?

@@Stinkmeaner420 Because it's America ?

@@Elo-hv3fw no because it’s New York City. The rents are lower in many places outside of the major metropolitan areas.

Good God man how did you survive? I am guessing the other 30% went straight to bills?

True but wouldn't that gentrify the people from poorer rural areas when people who can outprice them move in from London?

It is that any one have to create economical way to pay your bills ,if government is failure to provide good services to original citizens of UK and providing good perks to Indians who are living there ,then it's a so pure that these developed country giving chance to India like country to become Developed country and those country want themselves underdeveloped country. Thankful that this issue comes into a focus❤️

@@fullmetaltheorist If it pushes the prices up in areas outside of London then those people benefit from selling their property at a higher price. I guess you use the word "gentrify" as a sort of negative but increasing wealth is not a negative thing.

gentrification brain is one hell of a drug

@@C-eo1rt But it is the local people who sell their properties as prices go up. Blame them for selling. When people buy property and refurbish it to either rent or sell they are improving the housing stock. Yes, rents will go up in those areas but that is a reflection of the improved property. Do you think it is better for people to all live in cheap housing that is in a poor state?!?! The only way you can prevent people from buying and selling property is to enforce state ownership of all property. That is the ridiculous dream of communists everywhere. The trouble is that communism always ends up in poverty. If state ownership of all property is something you think is a good idea I suggest you move to Venezuela or North Korea.

I'm very glad I stumbled on this today writing to him now.. Really hope he can help me

Happy to hear this😃 really need some good money to take good care of my kid's?

They will never saved up. Entitled children will continue to be such a big burden to their elder parents until they die. It is tough these days, but it is selfish to live on benefits of parents, unless they are wealthy.

@@Serena_9 it's only selfish if they demand it. If their parents are happy to let them stay it's a different story

Sometimes it a choice of a worse job but staying at home or a job with more opportunities but you have to move out as it’s not commutable

depends. not alot of young people/young adults that live at home have the option of living at home rent free especially if they live with just a mum or dad. So the chances of them building up their money is lower compared to living at home rent free.

Because no one will take action

It will only get worse.

I have even heard of people complaining about the same thing on Australia and New Zealand. Particularly Sydney, Melbourne, Perth (despite being the main city of a state which is over third of the Australian continent) and Auckland.

Yes it’s every where

Hard to generalize the US tho because it depends much more heavily where you live. I was living in Ohio and average rent where I was for a huge 2br apartment was literally a quarter of the price of where I now live in the south of England. As soon as I save the money I’m going back to America. Even with the cost of healthcare it’s still better cost of living than I can see there being for the foreseeable future in the UK. Energy prices in the UK have gone up over 100% this year alone. It’s terrifying. I should have never left America

As someone from NL, a decade ago when I studied it was impossible to secure accommodation for the first 1.5 year of my study leading to a daily commute of 5 hours in total.

@@91Durktheturk 5 hours a day! 🤦‍♂️ sound horrific, I heard that NL is tough for rent, same here in Dublin, things have gotten ridiculous in Europe

At this point wouldn't a camping car + gym membership (showers) make more sense? I would do that out of spite.

How much "help" do you think the university owes you? You are an adult now, it is up to you to sort out your own housing. When you get out to work do you expect your employer to sort out your accomodation?

@@davidwebb2318 Hi David if I was to hazard a guess I’d assume you are middle aged and owner of an affordable property. Things aren’t as handy now, so less scoffing from your ivory tower there like a good man.

welcome to the real world. It has always been the same when you are in your 20's and trying to get established in the adult world of work. Try asking people of your grandparents' age if their lives were easy when they were getting started in life!

Taxes on landlords changed considerably. Hence, 350k lanlords sold up since 2019.

Same boat except my job has gone and out in 11 days things need to change they are getting beyond a joke now.

With you on this one. But I’m self employed I put my prices up I don’t get work.

@@jonathantaylor147 i put my prices less got enough work.

​@@allykhan8594Good! Let people have a chance to buy their own property and not line the pockets of rich landlords.

I think the HMO craze has already kind of passed. HMOs were really big at one point but now as there are loads of regulations around HMOs now and you need to apply for approval with the council to have one it died off. On top of that some areas now outright ban HMOs. The new trend for landlords is in converting ex-retail and ex-office buildings into rooms to rent as this no longer needs planning application and these buildings sell for far less than housing. If you have lots of cash it's very easy to make huge returns doing this right now.

@@jasonbaxter3658 thanks for info

The u.s system is perhaps the most harsh.

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That’s madness that how big is the house ?

I am paying a little more than that for a small one bed flat in England. Needs to change.

@@id101192 I think he meant "in all *developed* countries".

Nope. I live in Germany. Mid sized but yet important city (Leipzig). I don't have a qualified job. I pay my rent for a house I would have only dreamed of years ago and yet I almost have around 2000 euros of disposable income. There are still places around where you can have a good life. It is just a matter of moving there.

@@oriolpujolmartinez7268 props for finding one. 2000€ disposable incooome? I hope you’re more than happy, I’d be totally blissed out with what you have at your “disposal” dang!

@@aronrendkivuli9146 I had to leave my country (Spain), for one with a much worse weather, food, and and well, leaving behind friends and family. I miss my city and the brightness of the sun that shines in the Mediterranean, but had to make the move to have the living I should be having at my thirties. A life that in now way I would had had in Spain. The thing is it is very rare to find english "expats" (I hate this fancy words brits use as an euphemism for IMMIGRANT). Because yeah, they are english. The centre of the world. And of course they'll never be immigrants. That's a thing only for brown people and south euopeans. Well maybe now will come the time when it is them that'll have to fly from their country.

@@oriolpujolmartinez7268 you’re lucky too. Yeah, the Brits would never be expats anywhere. Lol :D

Yep we have no chance! Sadly the corporation's run things now.

I notice most of the new builds are not starter homes, but luxury houses with three and four bedrooms! How's that going to help the people who need it most...first time buyers and lower income people?

Not even managers my guy. I’m managerial in the company I work for and my salary is about 2x-3 that of those I manage in more entry level jobs. If we look at our directors however - easily 20x what the guys/girls on the sales floor earn. Note they didn’t found the company or anything either. They were appointed then raised their packages every year and afaik have no plans to stop.

The only way of getting a pay increase is job hopping but who wants to change job now in recession

Great

I feel like a king 🤴 now in 600 sqf apartment, I could never live in Hong Kong under those conditions 😐. Poor people, the government should change their policies.

yes, agreed

These is,nt good in the sense that it ends up affecting civilians financially in different angles of life

We see complains here and there on social media ,from different people in different parts all around the world

Quite right Jon. The generation that bought back then say the current generation are just lazy. What nonsense. The situation now is very different and far more expensive.

House prices are supply and demand. But when people predicted it in the 70s they were called racist

my mum was the only person working in the 90's and she was able to look after myself and 2 other siblings we went on holiday at least once a year and she was able to buy 3 houses. a lot of her friends couldn't do the same because all they did was go on holiday 3 times a year and go out every weekend to eat. back then she was on around 35k which I believe is around 70+ in todays money. houses at the time was around I think 160-190k for a house and 80k for a house flat in zone 3. the best way to "save money in hard times" is to earn more money and sacrifice lifestyle choices.

@@Felix-rising Let me guess… immigration is to blame? 🙄 just predictable. There are lots of reasons for house price rises other than immigration. Maggie selling council properties and not replacing them thereby reducing the stock, people living longer than ever before often remaining in their homes, more single and divorced people than ever before, a major increase in people buying to let therefore reducing stock available for sale and landlords focusing on making money rather than providing homes, and foreign buyers like Russian, Arab and Chinese who’s properties stay empty the majority of the year, again reducing the stock available.

@@Gates2Aion your mum taught you well 😉

Your right!

Yeah. Or non-zero hour contracts which allow anemployer to fire you even without notice within first month (just happened to me). This country protects employers not employees.

china and russia are delighted at this capitalism on roids, thank you for the road and belt, join or street life, choose

@@xpengfangirl7942 In China people can't even take money out of their bankaccount. The housing market totally collapsed in China. They got even worse problems.

This really does seem to be happening all over the world! Here in the States we’re told that demand has gone up so prices are up. But if it’s happening everywhere?!?

You have the opportunity to get rich in this country. You could literally become a landlord yourself if you didn't fuck around in school, got a high paying career and get a mortgage through that avenue. You can still get rich from a business perspective as well. Just because we are clever and work hard, while others habitually blow their money on cigarettes and alcohol doesn't mean we should get punished for the inadequacy and mediocrity of the masses. Step your game up! Educate yourself. The world is getting harder to live in, adapt or go extinct. There is always a solution. It might be obscure and the hardest thing to achieve in your life but it is still a solution and it is worth pursuing.

@@ZahdShah Yeah, you can do all of that, but it does not mean the next generation have to be miserable to get what we call financial stable.

Ah man, that's bad. You are right though, this country is going down the toilet. 😐

Eat bug. Watch Marvel. Live in 6'x6'x6' cube. You are happy.

Exactly this. Supply and demand.

Yet how did she get away with doing that and why was she in office for so long?

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yet people are living in these houses so they are still providing homes council housing is not the answer or we would not have union bosses on £100k's+ proud to be living in them

@@moe2408 Pretty certain that 16-18 year olds are a demographic 🤦🏼‍♂

That's the modern BBC for you, they have to focus EVERYTHING on some sub-population or other, because otherwise they might foster social solidarity and we can't have that.

Everyone

it mostly affects young people who are trying to move out from parents, in uni, earning lower than grown adults

@@mariatt293 Sorry to burst your bubble but you’re completely wrong. The escalation in rent affects all of us thus rent and nine times out of ten the huge rent increases is out of greed rather than fixed costs increasing. It doesn’t matter what age you are, everyone who rents are being bleed dry. I’m one of those people and I’m in my 40’s.

Absolutely mad

@@popcornfilms1 he also mentioned that energy bills will go up again in January. That means my rent will increase again.

Is this in London? or a neighboring town or city?

@@rozi2089 London, Fulham

@@Michael-qg6sg Tell him no thanks, you will move.

The government has been telling local councils to approve more housing for years. Local council planning officers think their primary role is to refuse as many applications as possible. They are the problem.

@@davidwebb2318 many of them have archaic planning laws, especially central London

@@jenob9011 To me it seems that it is the way planning officers apply the rules that holds up progress. They try to interpret every planning rule in a way that stops progress.

@@davidwebb2318 so do you think we'd be having a lot more progress if the stubborn planning officers accepted firms building houses?

@@shanepatrick641 Yes, clearly. Housebuilding firms don't just need to get applications aporoved more quickly they need councils to come to them with proposals for massuve numbers of houses. Councils don't do this. They take a mostly passive approach, just sitting back and waiting for applications and then dealing with them really slowly.

Now that's spot on sir!

For what it’s worth, I hope things turn out well for the both of you

@Nemusis 999 Xenophobe

I live in a northern mining town in Manitoba , Canada ( You know...the colonies). An English chap and his family moved there for work as an electrician . I got him to wire my house and he told me (12 years ago) that his father advised him to leave England because there was no future for him there. Pretty sad for a country that only 120 years ago , was a world leader. And what amazes me , is that the people whose futures are being eliminated KEEP VOTING FOR THE SAME INCOMPETENT, CORRUPT, GREEDY, PROGRESSIVE POLITICIANS THAT ARE DESTROYING THEIR LIVES !

@Nemusis 999 the 'illegals' are homeless, no bank accounts, messed up credit scores etc how can they possibly drive up the hse prices l wonder?

Number of houses built each year between 1945 and 1980 350,000. Number built since 1980 200,000. The problem isn't immigration its lack of housing exacerbated in many cities by while developments being bought up by "Investors" from abroad and then sitting empty for years. Our entire housing market has become a money cleaning scheme for Russian oligarchs among others.

Which country should I move to?? I've always wanted to move to America, South Dakota or Montana...

Wow! That is very good value for money. If you take England alone, it is about the same area as Washington State, with a much higher population density. The UK has a population of 68 million, with 84% of that living in England. Countryside rents are realistically just as high, if not more. £500 rent will get you very little in the way of living area and certainly not any area of land. You'd get the house/flat size for that money in one of the more run-down towns, where employment rates are lower. A house with two Acres would be thousands of pounds!

Where I live in the UK, you'll pay more the further away from the city you are, because being in the countryside is seen as affluent. City rentals are quite cheap as they tend to be small and noisy.

@@mydogeatspuke The Brits always drive on the other side, dont they...

Same as in England. Countryside is cheaper, but less work opportunities and you need a mortgage to pay travel to commute to the city. £700 per month for travel!

Me and my husband have had to move into my parents. The landlord sold our flat to the council and the cost of £800 (double the cost of our rent), COVID tests to get abroad to see a dying family/ funeral plus £450 to have my tooth pulled out, (a whole month's rent), cause the NHS was full

Country produces crap. But Nissan cars are pretty good.

Most people have never had a decent wage. I used to be a full-time gardener in 1990, living on £120 per week, paying £60 per week rent for a room in a shared flat, plus bills (run up high by flatmates who stayed home all day), plus travel fares - leaving me with £5 per week for food. I was living on breakfast cereal twice a day until the lady I was contracted out to noticed I was losing weight and started feeding me. No one wanted to know then. There were no BBC programmes showing the young people being priced out of the housing market. I'd have been better off financially if the bank gave me a mortgage on this little place I found. I tried, they refused. I had proof of being a steady saver, proof I could pay a rent much bigger than their mortgage, but they were resistant, bound by this silly system of calculating wages.

@@debbiehenri345 so how would you calculate it? So if the banks lend more; ratio between salary and loan, in an economic slow slow down less people would lose their house because they cannot pay their mortgage?

Laughable everywhere now I live between Gatwick and brighton far higher than %30 of my income is rent.

I have a brother lives in London and though 30% Bargain lol

It’s more like 60-70 in London

I know it's drastic but you could consider moving somewhere cheaper than London, basically anywhere else in the UK would do. For example, you can buy a house in Birmingham for £80k with no deposit and your salary would only need to be £18k.

there are no flats on the Isle of Dogs for that low rent, that is simply a lie. I have lived on the IoD for 10 years now, I know it very well.

Dude you can only go back to dads when you broke up with a girl lol 😂

exactly, nowadays, the only way to save enough money to get your own place is to keep living at home with your parents for as long as possible, otherwise you'll just spend all your money on rent

Now days ur partner wont let u do that and alot time you have no choice but to sacrifice money over peace.

@@lunaargentum1743 not many parents want their kids living rent free at their home

When you rent you aren't "giving your hard earned money to pay for another persons mortgage". You are paying them for the use of their property. Glad to hear you could save to buy a flat.

Totally agree it’s funny like we are slaves or smth

That's absurd isn't it. The landlord hopes they either pay it or they move out and get another sucker

And knife crime.. yikes 😬

Man I want to leave as well. Where should I go??

It wasn't just her - she started it but successive gov'ts ever since have been using it as a cash cow. It's outrageous they have depleted the social housing stock. THAT is why rents are so high these days in the UK.

Agreed we need civil action now not just protests and riots either but real united peoples action to make any real change we need to break this broken system and rebuild it. We have tried everything else so the only option would be a general revolt or by countries terms the nuclear option.

Hello Laurence can I ask you a question if you don’t mind?

when the masons tell them to notice is when

@@atomictraveller Back on your meds. This is a real world adult discussion.

@@colinhill9439 General strike is a good start!

The young aren’t they voting base so they don’t care

Well it is. They'll call it market forces, supply and demand. The natural state of things that we have created.

We did not create these capitalistic tories did with lies we have the power to change it and that is called revolution which will happen with everything going on now we have had enough. Will not be long before strikes turn to riots and civil unrest to full on revolution. It may actually be the only way to change laws and everyone in power and put a new structure in place.

@@AncoraImparoPiper it is the landlord wants a renter to get income other people can afford the rent and also need places to stay

I stand by the Conservatives on this matter. Let it be, nothing you can, it comes as it flows folks

Lol. It is too true. But really you think the bulk of them understand that???

@Wallace Carney Have you heard of the NHS? The UK’s national health care service? It’s literally based on the principal of free health care. Secondly, there’s nothing wrong with expecting free health care. It’s a human right. Thirdly, doctors had not been refusing to see anyone before the pandemic. That’s just factually incorrect.

I am both an EU and a British citizen, too. I brazenly refuse to accept that this country, Britain, is a racist cesspit. It isn't, it accepted me, it accepted you, it accepts anyone that is willing to follow the rules, respect British culture and values and integrate within the British society's fabric. It is grossly offensive to imply this nation, the Brits, are racist. they aren't, I know it, you know it, everyone knows it Basically, get stuffed

@@paulungureanu937 Thank you, you wonderful fellow compatriot. I know the UK isn't perfect but I'm so glad that you feel this way.

It might be a bit depressing, but please don't feel embarrassed, you're far from being the only one.

You aren’t alone.

I wish I could live with my parents again. Sadly it's too late now, they won't have me back. I'm a grown up they say 🙄

I think if allot of people had those options they might take them, from living rent free with parents to affording a car. England also has other issues. Plus in london and the south east thats just not really feasible, you can live in a suburb but you will be paying around 5k pounds a year in trains (seriously) as you cant drive into london. And rent is still expensive. In london a room in a shared house your lucky to pay less than 750 pounds and can easily pay 1k. a 2 bed flat you can share with a friend start at like 1500 + bills for somehwere really not nice and for somewhere decent your going to be over 2k a month all in. Places even far out of london are also expensive. But even somewhere like peterborough which is cheaper maybe you can get a room for 450 or rent a shit flat for 600 in quite depressing place but which has a high speed line to london the season ticket is 5700 pounds. But what kind of life is that traveling over 2 or even 3 hours a day. There aren’t many opportunities outside london. Im lucky as my job means i can live and work in the midlands but my salary is also very low.

Yeah people already do this and they are the ones who convert into homeowners. It’s people that don’t have this option which are left out. Hate to break it to you but you are part of the privileged who have the opportunity. Not much different to saying ‘just earn 70k a year asap’.

I’m in the UK, I’m 31, I still live with my parents. I’ve been saving a deposit to buy, since I was 19. Unfortunately the county I live has extortionate house prices, so I hold out or move hours from my family. Even tiny flats I can afford are so over subscribed they are getting multiple offers and people are offering well over asking price, so I lose! I don’t have a partner. I also have health issues so being near my family is kinda needed for support. I rented for 3 years in my 20s and because the new me they were nice enough to give me a discount. At this rate I’ll still be with my parents at 40. Probably with a partner too!

@@Charlotte-wx4jz Maybe you need to consider moving somewhere cheaper to get started. That is what people have been doing for decades. You don't have some sort of magic 'right' to demand that someone sells you a property where you want to live. I would like to live in Monacco but I cannot just demand someone offers me a house there at a price I can afford just because that is what I want.

@@davidwebb2318 to live somewhere in the UK that I could realistically buy, I would need to live way up north, maybe 5/6/7 hours from my family. I have no partner. I have major health issues. I’m currently only living with my family because I was so ill I had to quit my job and move back in. How would that work if I’m miles away from them. All my DRs are here that have seen me for years. For some people it just isn’t that easy!