Brief Golden Age?

[Khandro]

I read of a conversation between photographer, David Bailey (82) & Spanish fashion designer and founder of the eponymous high-end shoe brand, Manolo Blahnik (78), it goes;

' Blahnik: So sometimes I just have to sit down and say: 'God, did all this happen?' All the excitement, it doesn't exist anymore, maybe because I'm old.

Bailey: It's not because you're old. It doesn't exist. '


Perhaps you have to be of a certain age to know what they were talking about, but looking around at the status quo, I do, - do you?

[Untitled]

very glad for your grandchildren ladybirder but they are not representative of the majority for whom getting on the property ladder is much harder than it was in the past... and it's not for lack of will its because of the property market.

https://www.propertywire.com/news/uk/home-ownership-among-young-adults-britain-collapsed-new-research-shows/

[emmie]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/women-lead-mortgage-revolution-6948626.html

[emmie]

doesn;t bear out what my link says.

[Untitled]

Your link is very old emmie and its just about women not young people.

[emmie]

Indeed it was only in the 19th century that women were allowed to own their own homes. Until The Married Women' s Property Act of 1882, common law in Britain deprived women of the right to keep their own property or even hold money of their own.

[emmie]

someone must be buying up these nice shiny houses can't all be old fogies.

[Untitled]

i have things to do now so ill just say this: the reason young people are miffed today is because their prospects at their current age are worse than those of the generation that came before them. It is very easy to sneer - and sneering is the default attitude of the unthinking elderly - but if you were young in this day and age you would probably not feel much magic in the air either. Young people look at the amazing opportunities the last generation profited from and all they want are the same opportunities: affordable housing, a good jobs market, and growth in earnings over time.

[emmie]

who the hell is sneering, many elderly who worked hard for their homes, are now often or not having to sell them to pay for their retirement home needs

[emmie]

and those that work just as hard will get those rewards.

[Untitled]

A huge chunk of them are getting snapped up by buy-to-let landlords emmie... the majority of whom are older people who drain away the money of the young through historically high rents.

[Untitled]

"and those that work just as hard will get those rewards."

No they wont. That's the point. Hard work today is not rewarded like it was in the old days do some research on wage growth in the UK vs rising living costs. its not a pretty picture and it hits the young much harder because most of them cant get on the property ladder. i understand though that most old people would rather deny this problem and pretend it does not exist.

Must go now!

[emmie]

thank god for that.