Owning your own home

You don't sound like a twat, but your pal kinda does; whining that people in inferior jobs to them are stopping them buying the nice house they deserve for being clever.

no. absolutely not.
if anything the other way around - they are stopping people in less well paid jobs buying the properties they should be able to.
isn't it true that each tier of the market is flooded with people who in other towns, and in other decades, just wouldn't be there? hence the astonishingly fast "gentrification" of certain areas. I don't know that acknowledging that is whining. but obviously I've painted my friend in a poor light.