How many of you still live with your parents 30+?

Nitefly said:
Dose prices :|
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Same down here in Plymouth, to get a similar house to mine back home in the south east would be at least 4x more expensive than here. A wage that looks OK or average in London or the south east goes much further if you can attract similar rates in cheaper areas.
 
ScoTTyBEEE said:
Such enthusiasm. Give it 10 years and you'll realise that house you own in negative equity is forcing you to work a job you hate with alongside people you despise.

Life isn't a bed of roses.
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So do you suggest that I live at home with my parents for the rest of my life until I can inherit their house and work any job... Or rent someone else's house for the same price as my mortgage and pay theirs off instead, and work with people I despise? I'm not out of my depths with the monthly payments even on a lower salary. I have friends rent a two bedroom flat for more than my mortgage monthly payment.
 
craig_t said:
I disagree, it just depends what you want in life. If you want a decent career then pursue it, don't sit back waiting. I am just 'an average teenage' (was).. I didn't get the best of grades in school, other than IT where I got an A, B in maths then the rest as C and below. But IT was where I wanted to work, so that's where I put my effort in school, out of school and when I started to work I applied myself where I needed to.

By 'Average teenager' it depends if you mean someone who has average grades or someone who doesn't want to progress their career?
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its nothing to do with what u want in life or not its to do with how realistic anyone can save a deposit in just a year or twos savings!!

when i mean average teenager i mean someone working and earning decent money.

Anyways if your yard only cost 100k(seriously i could buy that outright off u now with the savings i got) then even saving 10k for just one year is borderline stretching it.

Now correct me if im wrong. Even though londoners earn good money to the eyes of everyone else, doesnt the job salary dictate the worth of the area? ie lets assume in london your yard is worth 300k and u earn 30k salary.

over at your area, that should reflect as 100k for house and a 10k salary(give or take).

Am i right or are people outside of london still earning london wages yet can buy 100k houses?
 
Yeh thought there has to be something up. A lot more expensive down south.

In wales near the english welsh border its more, £200k for an average 4bed

Cardiff way for anything half decent probably around £175k depending on location for a 4 bed

London is a joke and surrounding areas can be expensive as is many places in south
 
DJMK4 said:
Yeh thought there has to be something up. A lot more expensive down south.

In wales near the english welsh border its more, £200k for an average 4bed

Cardiff way for anything half decent probably around £175k depending on location for a 4 bed

London is a joke and surrounding areas can be expensive as is many places in south
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I think you'd struggle to purchase a 4 bed house in a decent area of Cardiff (i.e Roath, Pontcanna, Llandaff, Cyncoed, ) for 175k. I have a budget of 150k and I am seriously struggling to find a good 2 bed property in my preferred location of Canton.

Re topic :- I moved out at 18 to go to university and I have rented since. I am now 28 and looking to buy but I am extremely glad I never returned to live with my parents (who are both wonderful but live in the small & bleak city of Hereford) even if it meant I may have been able to afford to buy slightly earlier. I value the experiences I have had living in a variety of house shares and enjoying my 20s.

Mind you I do not blame anyone for choosing to stay with their parents. Perhaps if mine lived in a bigger city I may have stayed but in a way I am grateful I just left!
 
Nitefly said:
Pfft if you think Cardiff is bad Bristol is trololol.
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Yeah, Bristol is great and plenty of my friends have crossed the border to work there (many more law firms) but the potential salary increase available doesn't really offset the huge increase in property prices.
 
Liefrich said:
I think you'd struggle to purchase a 4 bed house in a decent area of Cardiff (i.e Roath, Pontcanna, Llandaff, Cyncoed, ) for 175k. I have a budget of 150k and I am seriously struggling to find a good 2 bed property in my preferred location of Canton.

Re topic :- I moved out at 18 to go to university and I have rented since. I am now 28 and looking to buy but I am extremely glad I never returned to live with my parents (who are both wonderful but live in the small & bleak city of Hereford) even if it meant I may have been able to afford to buy slightly earlier. I value the experiences I have had living in a variety of house shares and enjoying my 20s.

Mind you I do not blame anyone for choosing to stay with their parents. Perhaps if mine lived in a bigger city I may have stayed but in a way I am grateful I just left!
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Im not looking to buy a 4 bed luckily. Just comparing it to the 100k 4 bed up north.

First home will either be a 2 or 3 bed


Also why a skip :( there is a room free here :p
 
SDK^ said:
I'd rather have no car, no gadgets and just be surviving on basic food than live with my parents.
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Yes, it's so much better to pay all your money to a stranger (landlord), have no disposable income, and no security in your dwelling (you can get kicked out with 2 weeks notice in some cases...)

That sounds like bliss.

(Meanwhile your landlord uses your rent to buy his son and daughter their own houses, so they don't have to pay rent like the plebs...)

I feel sorry for people who would cripple themselves financially for the sake of avoiding some social stigma/embarrassment. If they had a choice in the matter.
 
Jumping in late to this thread, I'm 30, 31 in April, still live at home with my mum and dad. Don't think I'll be around much longer though, I've got a good chunk of money saved away for a deposit... although I have just got a "new" car... :rolleyes:
 
FoxEye said:
Yes, it's so much better to pay all your money to a stranger (landlord), have no disposable income, and no security in your dwelling (you can get kicked out with 2 weeks notice in some cases...)

That sounds like bliss.

(Meanwhile your landlord uses your rent to buy his son and daughter their own houses, so they don't have to pay rent like the plebs...)

I feel sorry for people who would cripple themselves financially for the sake of avoiding some social stigma/embarrassment. If they had a choice in the matter.
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What about those with 40k living in the basement lol
 
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