What a bunch of cunts.
Fuck me.
The Telegraph is such a joke of a newspaper these days. Not serious journalism which is a shame.
Fucking hell.
I'd love to see how they handled a cardboard box.
I'll put up a hundred quid a month if they'll both submit to being punched in the head once per payment.
I'm not seeing this as having as much to do with austerity as being about people who can't manage their (abundant) money very well.
Alright Buzz Killington.
Their articles on Corbyn are something else.Originally Posted by Kikó
Oh the tragedy.
Test.
Fuck's sake. To the top of the autism list you go.
I bet the flat they own is an absolute hovel. South East London.
Couldn't they have just bought a house near a good school? "The experience" of private school education? Dear lord.
Some bits of South East London are nice.
The key is not living in London. I'm currently facepalming my friends as each in turn begins chasing the dream of 'the lifestyle' and 'it's where everything's happening' before trudging back at the end of the three year cycle when they realise it is the place with the biggest cunt to square metre ratio in the world (although I've not been to Dubai) and have no money left because they've poured it down some shark landlord's throat. And for what?
What I will say is having been privately educated I can definitely understand wanting your kids to have the same.
Name them.
The feeling of superiority.
Not having to mix with the oiks.
Connections for the future.
The dinner parties with other parents.
I never learned Haikus in my school.
In all seriousness though, this does show how staggeringly unaffordable London is becoming.
And the smooth shoulders.
At private schools the teaching is in general better, the classes are in general smaller and more disciplined, and the range of other activities like sport, music etc available is considerably more. Why wouldn't you want that for your kids?
It is, but this doesn't show that. To earn that much and not be able to service a two and a half grand monthly mortgage is fucking ridiculous.
London is ridiculously expensive and I can't imagine how people who work low level can even think about living here. Case in point, Santa.
It is a bit mad. I stuck 190k into one of those take-home pay calculators and it says it'd be about Ł9k a month. And that's just as one salary. They must have even more take-home pay since it's split over two salaries and therefore even more of it is under the personal allowance and higher band thresholds.
What size were your classes?
I was in Chiswick with the old man recently, and, whilst it's a pretty swish area, lol at their shitey little terrace houses going for well over a million quid.
Victoria Coren-Mitchell on question time recently told people aspiring to London that there only chance of affording to live in London is if everybody fucks off and leaves the oligarchs to it.
The property prices in London are so skewed by the millions of square feet traded back and forth for Ł millions above the real market value as part of offshore money laundering / tax "avoidance" schemes through LLC's. When a house with a market value of Ł2m is sold to someone else for Ł15m no questions asked you know that there's something not right, and that trickle down pressure on house prices is incessant.
Fortunately I live in a town where you can still buy a home for less than Ł100k (and often less than Ł70k if you're willing to wait) but I find it bizarre that people barely a few miles away are actually thinking that buying a house for Ł230k+ (same 3 bedroom semi detached by the way) is a step up. Really? You're playing a postcode lottery based on independent valuations, so that you can go into work the next week and brag about how badly off you are due to the expense of your new home. I'll pass on that kind of office-misery-wank material.
My mortgage is Ł230 a month, two young friends recently moved to be closer to work from a flat that cost them Ł600 a month, so a house costing them Ł650 a month. I'm like"How's that saving up for a mortgage working for ya?". Another friend just had a baby, moved out of their apartment to rent a house from her brother, now paying Ł550 a month and only getting Ł350 on their 1 bed. I'm like
Every time we sell for a "profit" we're just striking our kids with an increased burden. It's such a false economy that honestly needs the bubble to go bang on it once and for all until people realise that investing in bricks and mortar you do for the 50 years to build a home, not for 5 years so that you can ride the hot housing market bubble and then panic sell.
To quote the immortal, but dead, Rodney Dangerfield "...as you go out in the world, my advice to you is; don't go! It's rough out there. Move back with your parents, let them worry about it."
Fuck sake, I've only been away five minutes.
Even if I had wanted to stay I'd have been forced out as rent for our 1 bedroom flat in zone 5 is being increased by Ł155 a month.
Friend of mine is just using the London wage to buy up properties back up north.
Can't say much mind, trying to find anything around Cheltenham and the Cotswolds is a rather laughable process as to how high the price some of the houses/flats are.
If only the girlfriend wasn't so mardy about this place, would get house so cheap back in Wolverhampton.
I'd love to see a breakdown of their outgoings. I'd fucking rip them to shreds the yuppie cunts.
Have to say, as someone who went to Private School after 10 years of State School, it absolutely destroyed me and I definitely came out of it damaged. I went in as a straight-A student and left 4 years later struggling to get a passing grade.
Why did you feel that was the case phonics?
A mix of State Schools being behind, an example being when I moved I arrived into a Math Class where not only were we expected to know how to do long division but also be able to solve for x using it when long division was only a concept I'd heard of on American Highschool TV shows on Nickelodeon, and the sheer amount of freedom you get at a young age at Private School due to a lot of parents not being around their kids but giving them the money to keep themselves busy (to put not to fine a point on it, I'd say the average 'lunch money' for most students was around 30 pound a day). Too much drink + drugs from 15 onwards.
I also had a really good group of friends back home and fell into the wrong crowd trying to fit in at the new place.
My Nan lives in one of said houses in Chiswick. She's lived there all of her life and therefore is essentially worth somewhere in the region of Ł800k. The house my rents live in is twice as big and worth about a quarter of that. It's mental.
Though it's a nice inheritance for my Mum and her two sisters at least.
Respectfully suggest moving country had more to do with that. Teens are an absolutely terrible time to move and everyone I've met who was dragged from country to country has had issues.
Also I reckon those International Schools or whatever are dubious.
Jim, this was a serious question, not an attempt to mock you in some way.
Mine were around 25 at secondary school, maybe a few less at primary/prep.
Actual lessons were about 20-25 if that helps.
You two went to private schools?
I went to one of the worst ones in the country by testing methods, I think. Still, t'was alright and didn't do me any harm.
This one
School fees must be one of the few things that have outperformed (London) property in terms of price inflation. They seem to have gone absolutely through the roof.
Mine were 20-24 compared to 30-32.
25 up to GCSE, and in the sixth form never more than about 12.
Is 25 much under what they normally are in state schools? From what I recall of school, mine were normally about 25-30 with classes in secondary school that had special rooms (science, technology etc) being restricted to 20.
Those sixth form class sizes would be good though.
My state school friends always quoted 35 at me.
The bigger difference is probably that there aren't the troublemakers about, with the odd exception.
There were 18 pupils in my entire year up to Standard Grade (GSCE) level. Unsurprisingly that school no longer has a secondary department.
I passed all entry exams to go to the local private schools and local academies back in the midlands, even had two offer me funded scholarships so I could afford to go them. Poured misery on my parents when I turned them all down and went to the run down engineering school I lived next door to and all my friends were going too. Quite a big school mind, had a Channel 4 documentary on how shit it was.
Could have probably been something more then I am now (career wise) if I hadn't but wouldn't be half the person. My cousin got into an academy (money talks) and came out with a right 'I am superior' attitude, took a few years to get her back down to normality where she is actually a pretty nice person these days. Probably that which has tainted my view of the private schools. That and it could also be good ole working class 'fuck the poshuns'.
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Oh I'm sure moving to Charterhouse would have done me less damage than Ecolint but I think I still would have taken a turn. It's like whenever a girl you know gets sent to Catholic School, she comes back the biggest slut in the village.
The thing about private schools is that they are all different. I went to a bloody brilliant boys' day school that was something like 25% Asian and right next door to one of the worst comps in London, so it wasn't like we were in some stratified world.
I remember going to play cricket against Harrow and they called us oiks. One of them put a pound coin on our table at tea and walked off, saying 'You need it more than me'. I'd never want to go to a boarding school. They're awful.
Yeah, boarding schools aren't right at all. I don't really get why parents send their kids to them, other than hating/resenting them.
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