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At least you’re not paying ~6% of what it cost to buy your house p.a. in council tax ;-)
I’ve had similar chats over the years with my more long-tenured neighbours. The sense I get is that those that cared about the money cashed in long ago; those that remain genuinely like the house / location and are bemused by prices.
The worst kind is the person that thinks he’s god’s gift to business, investing and generally pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps because he decided to buy a house a long time ago and live in it.
NickCJ
the bloke next to me gleefully told me today he paid 35k for his house in 1977.
that was pretty much what I had to pay in stamp duty to buy my house next door a week ago.