Why Are Uk Houses So Expensive?

[Jack8991]

So I’m a teacher earning around £30,000 a year, 23 years old living at home with parents. My grandma was saying that when she dies (which hopefully isn’t for a very long time), I could buy her house, which is a semi detached estimated between £190-200K. I’ve been told by a family friend who is in banking that on my salary I’d be leant roughly £90-100K for property, so I always tell my gran there’s no way I could afford it as I’d have to put a deposit down of about £90-100K just to be loaned the rest. Even a lot of terraced houses are out of my price range. I just find it frustrating that I’ve worked hard since being at school to go on to get a degree and a career to not even be able to afford my own home. I know there’s renting but I don’t want to be paying out for a house I’ll never own until I die. Thanks

[fender62]

id buy a fixerupper, if your handy with a bit of plastering plumbing and electrics or have friends who are handy? that what i would do.

[bednobs]

girl or house fender?

Jack can you not see the irony of you rejecting someone because of their looks then complaining people reject you because of your looks?

[pat2604]

Dating sites really didn't exist when us oldies were young. We managed also without technology. We just went out and socialised. You can't beat it!!

[Jack8991]

Bednobs- but I’m not rejecting people on my looks level. I’m rejecting women below my looks level. I’m sorry but a woman who is about 17 stone with tattoos on her neck is not as attractive as a guy who attends the gym and stays in good shape. Someone who is 17 stone of fat is not going to have any facial definition which automatically makes you below average looking

[Jack8991]

Pat- I know exactly!! That is why young women are different now than they used to be because they are constantly being idol worshipped online

[douglas9401]

Anyway, about these expensive houses...

[Neveracrossword]

Jack, did you ask anyone out when you were at school or university? Surely there were people you liked, were attracted to, during your course? There would have been common ground - for initiating conversations - and shared interests at some point over the three years. Not everyone has dozens of partners, but people can usually look back on disastrous dates or the misery of the first time they were dumped and so on.

[Jack8991]

Neveracrossword- when I was at school I felt invisible to girls, as the only guys at my school who seemed to get interest off the girls were the popular guys! Unfortunately when I was at uni all the girls in my class (which to be fair was only about 9) all had boyfriends and one was a bit older and married! I didn’t live on campus so I didn’t meet anyone outside of my course

[Jack8991]

Then when I left uni in 2019 that was the last time I have physically interacted with any female of my age

[Jack8991]

Apart from one a few weeks ago who ended up just messing me around

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Jack. I think you missed out on a huge chunk of uni/college experience - meeting a far wider section of people and having a more active social life would probably have got rid of some of your insecurities.

[davebro]

Can you say what "messing me around" consisted of? Sometimes relationships don't always start smoothly but can prosper if you persist.

[pat2604]

Jack you are placing too much emphasis on looks and build. I can assure you that not all girls are turned on by tall, dark, chiseled looks? In fact lots of girls are turned off by men who are obsessed with how they look.

[Jack8991]

Dave- I mean by flaking last minute etc, more than once. In the Manosphere we are told that if they are messing you around like that more than once just let her go as it shows a low level of interest on her part

[Jack8991]

Pat- I’m talking about online dating, which looks are all that matters on there. I’ve proven this with my experiment

[davebro]

I think we are in a "Yes but" scenario here - I give up.

[Jack8991]

Like I was saying before on the experiment profile the women were matching left right and centre and then messaging first (which doesn’t happen often) saying things like ‘oh I have to go on a date with you, I’m free at the weekend’. The profile I used was just pictures only and no bio. That proves that women on online dating only care about dating chad men

[Bobbisox1]

What’s a chadman please?

[davebro]

The only chads I know were drawings of a bald guy with a big nose peeping over a wall!

[Jack8991]

Bobbisox- a Chad is a nickname for an extremely attractive white man. An extremely attractive black man is known as a ‘Tyrone’