How do the Millers afford their Victorian semi?

[marmaduke]

How do the Miller family in Albert Square afford their house?

[ludwig]

Mrs Miller does a bit of cleaning over at the Vic. It's pretty well paid - I think she's on about �90 an hour.

[galltin]

It's a council house.

[Peri]

Oh honestly because they are actors and we all know actors get paid very well, I thought that was obvious.  LOL

[Joe Shmoe]

galltin is right. nearly all the houses are owned by the council.

[emmalee]

Thats why they all do thier washing in the launderette, because they cant afford a washing machine,  but they can afford to go to the pub everyday and instead of putting the kettle on they go over the caff for a cuppa, mad!!

[Andy008]

Large Victorian terraces may fetch 7 figures, but not in the East End. Walford replaces the tube station of Bromley-by-Bow / Stepney on the map. These parts of East London are some of the poorest in the UK, and property is fairly cheap. Don't get mislead by the new apartments down in the old Docklands, in places like Wapping and Rotherhithe. These are built for sale to the banking community working in Canary Wharf and the City. If you take the tube to Liverpool Street and walk 5 minutes up the road in Bishopsgate, you will hit Whitechapel, absolute squalor, right next to the largest concentration of financial power of earth.

[smee.tracey]

Bet they're still more expensive than where I live Andy008

[marmaduke]

That's all very well; it's clear the property isn't as expensive as it would be in other areas of London, but this family is understood to have NOTHING - and �15 means that, for example, a child might be able to do something for �15 that day, but they have money for nothing else. So it must be council property for which they pay zilch.

[Andy008]

Which operates along the same logic as Den Watts - Britain's only man to have been murdered three times.

[Peri]

Three times ?

[v64paul]

come on guys it's not real it's a soap opera. not like coronation street...

[Peri]

Now Corrie that s a serious issue.  I mean what are we to do about Shelley. 

[milly143]

I'd like to know where all the slaters sleep??? I'm sure if the entire British Army showed up at their front door there would be a bedroom for each of them.

[Peri]

Only if they were FAAAAMily !

[kazzee69]

And have you noticed no-one owns a washing machine.. they all take their clothes to the laundret!!

[hobsonbear]

when den and sharon and dennis lived together there was a bag of clothespegs hanging behind the kitchen door and she still used the launderette!