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spathiphyllum | 11:35 Fri 08th Nov 2019 | News
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It's a shame, with the farce that is brexit, that the conservative government have put almost everything else on the back burner.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/starter-homes-housing-first-time-buyers-national-audit-office-report-a9185371.html
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Of course there are thousands of homes being built and sold (even as i type this, i can hear the diggers at the top of my street where a dozen bungalows are to be built). But none of them are part of the 2015 election promise made by David Cameron. And this info hasn't come from some loony lefty newspaper. It's from the National Audit Office. the money put aside for...
14:46 Sat 09th Nov 2019
There are plenty of houses on the market it's just people can't afford them.
//"There are thousands of Eastern Europeans rocking up here in the UK."

Aye and they live in high rise flats.//

But you don't want to. They have prioritised their affairs so as to make a decent living. They are prepared to put up with some inconveniences along the way. You won't. So here's the answer to your question "How can i just get up and go? Where will I live?". Anywhere you like; anywhere the fancy takes you.They did it across many hundreds of miles. You won't even move to Stoke because it doesn't suit you but you suggest that everybody else should live up to two hundred feet from the ground because we've run out of space.
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I'm not suggesting people should do that, but it's how it is.. In citys they start to build upwards.

You can get some very lovely flats.

If it's that easy, why are there so many homeless people?

It's not easy to just get up, move somewhere and start a new financially secure life.
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Elder people may think it is, because when they were young it was that easy. But in today's day and age it's just not feesable. Where are the logistics? A train ticket cots £50.
If you are single you do not need a house to find a job. You can house/flat share for starters. Think out side the box. Some jobs in the hotel industry offer accommodation.You stay on this site all day Spath and you will die before your time . Any body can cut grass. Kids did it for bob a job. Think about a proper career with wages regularly coming in and hopefully a pension. Then you can start thinking about your 2 bed with an attic.
I'm 45... which probably is "elder" to you lol. But my son is 22... and did it with some thought and determination.
23... but 22 at the time...
//A train ticket cots £50.//

You have your own wheels.
Honestly, spath... I have to go out now.... but don't wait for MPs to sort it out for you. As far as I'm aware, anyway, you are a young, fit man with no children to worry about. You can sort yourself out- if you are really prepared to xx
A train ticket to where?
if anything is built here chances are they are unaffordable. Three small terrace houses were built just across the road, pitiful looking specimens they are too, but apparently asking price 2.5 million each, ridiculous.
it wasn't always possible to buy back in the day, when i was a child. we rented one miserable flat after another.
we simply couldn't afford to buy. and now it's impossible.
emmie
My house in the suburbs of London is worth well over half a million. Much more than it would cost to build new . It is the Location and proximity to central London that puts the price on it as well as the land it sits on. I am surrounded by main line train stations. Commuters will pay handsomely for this property. I could get a new build six bed detached in the sticks for my 3 bed 1920s semi here.
retro,
my place is smack bang in the centre, is worth on the open market possibly over 1 million, i rent from the council and have done so for over 43 years, if i had bought back when right to buy was prevalent i could be sitting on a goldmine. But i can't afford to move, health precludes me from being ensconced in the sticks, much as that appeals.
Spath
After my wife finished her A levels at school in Cradley Heath West Midlands she got a job as a wages clerk with a company called Gerrards. They made turntables for record players. It was very much a stop gap job before she decided on a career.She hated living in her parents house,so, bought a plane ticket to Ibezia and armed with a work visa (she still has it) found a job in a hotel in their travel agency. She dealt with mainly Spanish people who wished to holiday elsewhere ( mainland Spain usually). The hotel provided a room but in peak holiday period she had to find alternative accommodation. She rented a room in a Taxi driver's house with his family.She had to speak Spanish as they had no other tongue. She taught the children a few English phrases.She did this for four years and now speaks Spanish like a native. If she wished she could command huge fees for interpreting at Strasbourg or Brussels to this day.After four years she had saved for a deposit for a house but decided her career was to be in Nursing. In 74 ,as a student nurse, she met me.We bought our first house in London in 78. A five bedroomed Victorian Terrace in Colliers Wood. After 40 years nursing,where she was often asked to translate, she has retired.
If a young girl of 17 can up stumps,get a Spanish work visa and jump on a plane to get a job surely it can't be that hard for you to at least try and do something for yourself rather than rely on mum and dad for a roof over your head.
True, Retro, my daughter upped and went off to Oz at 18/19.
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Times have changed, that's all I can say.

Housing isn't as available, neither are jobs. Before I started my own company I applied to Tesco 4 times and Spa twice. I've tried to find work, but I had no other option but to turn my Saturday chores into a career.

Getting to an airport would cost me over £50 let alone the flight itself if I were to go Ibiza. Much more qualified attractive people they want working as their agents these days, probably bilingual also a skill I don't have.

If I can't find work in the UK with no language barrier or financial burden getting there, how can I hope to find work elsewhere?
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Ummm, that's a £500+ flight. AKA, a months rent.
Spatty.....set up as a chimney sweep...our guy does 8 a day at £40 each..works 5 1/2 days a week and does gardening during August/Sept.
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There are a couple of well established chimney sweepers in my area who seem to take all the custom, i often speak to one of them because I do the garden at the same property he does the chimney. Says he does the whole street, or at least for all those who want it.

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