What do you live in?

[Foe]

Stevenson or Saltcoats for sure.

i have family that live in a really nice house down the front of Saltcoats. Feels like you're driving through the ghetto to get there mind.

[Foe]

£20,000 is a lot of money though. I'm sure for some people who can keep living with there parents until they have the cash it's easy enough but for most people saving that much while paying £500+ for rent, council tax etc is tough.

The hardest thing I found was just how quickly the house prices where going up far quicker than I could save.

One of my friends bought a 4 bed new build in Southampton in the first phase of the development 2 years ago, the exact same house in the third phase is 85k more. It's ridiculous.

Aberdeen was a bit like that and it came to a head when the housing market crashed with the oil price.

I reckon in just shy of 4 years my flat has probably dropped about 15-20% in value. Fortunately, the rest of the city has done something similar so it doesn't really matter as long as I stay within the city.

A friend bought a flat recently which 3.5 years ago would've been £210-220K. He's getting it for £165K. It's sickening, but there's nothing I can do about it.

[Spikey M]

Where the fuck was that? Mine is worth 200k.

https://espc.com/property/25-whitecr...1-8ng/35583968

Turns out it’s a 2 bed, but still.

[Magic]

Interesting never been there. Still a decent commute to Edinburgh.

[Kikó]

Down the road from me there are (smallish) houses which have gone from 100k to 500k since the mid 90s. Now I don't have the figures in front of me, but I'm pretty confident in saying wages have not quintupled in the same timeframe.

This is the neighbours house value - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-pri...ountry=england

[Adramelch]

A friend bought a quite spacious 2-bedroom house, with parking and a backyard for 160k pounds a couple of years back. In Derby, but still.

[Magic]

This is the neighbours house value - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-pri...ountry=england

That's amazing. Would be worth about £120,000 here.

[phonics]

850k to live in a place with rooms smaller than my 50 quid a month place in Swansea

[Kikó]

Central / North London for you.

[Samadini]

They haven't even bought a new TV since 1996.

[Samadini]

I rent an end of terrace, so get to pretend it's a semi detached. Start a new job soon, I'll be saving up to buy a car first, but after that I'll be earning enough money to save to one day own a place, don't really give a fuck about owning though, if it happens then great, but if it doesn't, I still have a roof over my head.

[Adramelch]

They haven't even bought a new TV since 1996.

That's cause they can't afford one, with all the loans.

[Lewis]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-43209535

Look at all them sad bastards.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Green Belt protestors are the pits.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't mind them building on some green belt but they never improve the infrastructure to go alongside it. Most house building is just councillors desperate for the cash hit and probably bungs from developers.

[John Arne]

I’m in the process of buying an apartment now. 6th floor, 98sqm, 20 mins from the CBD.

1,890,000,000 dong. Paying cash and no mortgage

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's what, £100?

[John Arne]

That's what, £100?

£135. And there’s an American POW locked in the store cupboard.

[Giggles]

Plus 3 blowjobs a day from a live-in local.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Vietnamese housing ladder is probably literally a ladder. 6th floor, eh? Keep climbing.

[Lewis]

Green Belt protestors are the pits.

I hope every one of their houses loses loads of value.