Quote Originally Posted by ABLUEBIRD View Post
These youngsters could always buy a house up the valleys if they really wanted to get on the ladder,plenty going for less £100,000. And these youngsters can afford it just get rid of their Netflix, top mobile phone contract, Sky, holidays etc. etc but they would rather moan than actually do any of the above.
Massive generalisation but up to you - as of course there are no "older people" who moan about their lot

My boy has worked since he was 17 in part time jobs until he finished uni and now on the property ladder despite not being in a massively well paid job - he used the pandemic to save whilst being at home and used this to help as did his girlfriend

My daughter is in a professional occupation in the NHS and pays her way in a house owned by her partner and is waiting on their first joint purchased home together

Both of my kids have Netflix accounts mobile phones etc but find a balance between the necessities and the wants

Have they worked hard for it - yes

I know loads of other young adults their age who have done exactly the same

Do they moan about their lot definitley not - they are some of the most well adjusted values based decent people I know

I personally think the future is in better hands for the generation coming through than it was in ours - my view is that as a generation we have royally fecked it all up and they will be left to pick up the pieces