Am I alone in feeling absolute and incoherent rage and despair at knowing I'll never be able to afford a decent house in the city I was born in? I'm really grateful to be on the housing ladder at all, and things will undoubtedly be worse for the younger generation, but I've found it genuinely debilitating recently. I see all these nice terraced Victorian terraced gaffs up for £500k plus and I'll never get close to being able to afford them. And I have a decent job. And a partner. And no kids.
I genuinely don't understand how people are able to afford those places.
EDIT: I know this is a bit out of character for this thread but I don't have many places to vent about this stuff and it'd be good to know if I'm not utterly alone on this.
It's happening where I live too (West Wales). Majority of houses are being bought for holiday lets for inflated prices. It's grim. I saw a stat the other day that said 1 in 10 properties are now second homes.
The second home thing just makes me furious and I'm not even directly affected by it (very few people want holiday homes in Dagenham). It's just so grotesque. I think second homes should be taxed up the wazzoo and I have no idea why they aren't.
Am I alone in feeling absolute and incoherent rage and despair at knowing I'll never be able to afford a decent house in the city I was born in? I'm really grateful to be on the housing ladder at all, and things will undoubtedly be worse for the younger generation, but I've found it genuinely debilitating recently. I see all these nice terraced Victorian terraced gaffs up for £500k plus and I'll never get close to being able to afford them. And I have a decent job. And a partner. And no kids.
I genuinely don't understand how people are able to afford those places.
EDIT: I know this is a bit out of character for this thread but I don't have many places to vent about this stuff and it'd be good to know if I'm not utterly alone on this.