Più giovani dicono che le fatture in aumento ora fermano loro

i am terrified for my future and especially worried about the younger generation who have nothing to look forward too

It’s more the absolute stagnation in wages for the last, what, 15 years while the price of everything has gone up.

Wage stagnation apart for those at the top, obviously. 

I moved out at 27 on 25k, into a shared ownership one bedroom flat. I basically had nothing left every month, and I progressively got more and more pay increases over the next five years and it felt like nothing changed.

I went from 25k, to 28.5k, to 31k, and then to 35k. It was ONLY the jump to 35k that felt like it made a difference to my lifestyle and finances. Every other pay increase felt immediately nullified by increases to rent, mortgage, electric, gas, or god knows what else.

I’m 32 now and on 40k, which is above the UK average, and I feel comfortable. But I won’t ever be able to get a bigger mortgage, or a bigger property. I’m happy in a one bedroom apartment but any dreams of a house or bigger flat might as well be a work of fiction.

I don’t blame anyone for living with their parents for as long as possible to be honest.

I’ve got 4 kids, my 2 daughters are 19 and 21, and are unable to get work that pays enough to move out. My boys are getting too big to be sharing a bunkbed. Something needs to change

I moved back home and retrained a fe years ago and now cant afford my outgoings and savings i maxed out my credit card just to survive the retrain and now I feel like nothing worth it tbh. Its very bleak for so many

I got an Email from British gas saying my monthly electricity bill is coming down 5 quid a month. I couldn’t believe it

Landlords are always going to be greedy gits that want to extract the most money out of people. 

However, they are able to do this because the rate of immigration far out strips our creation of new housing. 

Supply slowly trickling up and demand massively shooting up, means that landlords can keep jacking up prices and people will pay because they have no choice. 

Nearly 30, stuck living at home with parents working a shit dead end job. Every attempt to get a better paid job has failed because there’s fuck all out there. Can’t afford to move for any better job because housing costs are stupid. Everything is stacked against you if you’re a normal person trying to get by. Even living rent free I still can’t afford the deposit for anything worth living in. And renting would end any hope of saving for a house.

Just feels like there is no viable route to any independent life worth living, and that living with parents indefinitely while shit is the least bad option I have. Just a feeling of powerlessness, and what’s the point of any of this. Sitting there, unable to really live any life or achieve anything. Existing rather than living.

And when our generation complains about our futures having been stolen from us we get shitty sneering attitudes and “just work harder” from a generation who largely own their homes outright, having bought them when they were much more affordable. The whole thing is utterly rage inducing and radicalising.

I’ve got a mate who’s well into his 40s and still living with his mum in their family house in a nice part of London.

He said to me years ago that with how expensive it is in London he’s better off just staying put until his mum isn’t here anymore and he’s got a nice house in a lovely part of the city for nothing while saving an absolute bomb on rent.

I would lose my mind still living at home into my 40s but I totally understand the perspective.

I remember first sitting down to rent my first flat, and was advised to go for somewhere where the rent was 1/3rd of what I made in a month. To ensure it can always be afforded.

Now? If you’re trying to rent you should be prepared to be giving up at least half if not more.
I’m very lucky to have my rent frozen and I know my landlord can’t afford to not have me as an income stream and so am enjoying very cheap rent and can afford to put away… £300 a month.
If rent was equal to the other properties in my building? I’d be paying £350 more a month.

It’s going to collapse, the issue is will debtors be dragged into this as young people desperate for freedom from their parents rack up unaffordable debts desperately waiting for their big break.