Heart breaking story in the Daily Wail

[Mich the Tester]

"For a family with four children (Flo, 13, Annie, 11, Monty, nine, and two-year-old Dolly) living in the South-East it’s a minimum £450,000 for a four-bedroom house (we need five but I don’t want to sound fussy)."

muppets

well spotted

[Arturo Bassick]

Unless I missed something, I don't see why the house price crash forced their sale. So long as they could afford the payments, who cares what the house was worth. Buying at the top of the market and selling at the bottom is pretty stupid by any standard.

I read it that they bottled it and didnt want to be in negative equity so sold up, only later realising that they were paying as much in rent without having (even devaluing) assets. They were caught by circumstances as they jumped off the property ladder to resize only to find they could no longer get a mortgage.

[Doggy Styles]

I'm not going to knock them.

There's not a contractor on here who doesn't aspire to better things, apart from AtW perhaps, and none who haven't made financial mistakes and couldn't have been better off "if only..."

[Sausage Surprise]

I'm not going to knock them.

There's not a contractor on here who doesn't aspire to better things, apart from AtW perhaps, and none who haven't made financial mistakes and couldn't have been better off "if only..."

Good point mate - me included...

[Arturo Bassick]

I'm not going to knock them.

There's not a contractor on here who doesn't aspire to better things, apart from AtW perhaps, and none who haven't made financial mistakes and couldn't have been better off "if only..."

Fair, but most of us are not bitching about being skint in a national newspaper are we.

[Mich the Tester]

Fair, but most of us are not bitching about being skint in a national newspaper are we.

We would if they paid us to do that.

[Sausage Surprise]

We would if they paid us to do that.

Got there just before me

[sasguru]

What a pair of tulips you both are, to enjoy others' misery so.

Classic indicators of hollow unfulfilled lives.

Where did I say I enjoyed their misery?
Like them you have a typical New Labourite mentality that stops people taking responsibility for their choices and actions.
If they were uneducated chavs I'd have more sympathy, but these are supposedly "educated" people who just seem spoilt and think that money grows on trees. Decadent as Mich noted.

No. all in all, I stick to my original post. Their fate is well-deserved.

[scooterscot]

To make it worse, the same bint wrote this;

I couldn't survive without my live-in housekeeper | Mail Online

FFS woman, sort your life out.

We have cleaner come round once a week, €30 for a few hours. Dusting, hovering, mopping, ironing, washing up. Allows me and the wifey to live between invoicing. I don't see the harm in that whatsoever but we're nothing like the woman pictured in this article.

[scooterscot]

Unless I missed something, I don't see why the house price crash forced their sale. So long as they could afford the payments, who cares what the house was worth. Buying at the top of the market and selling at the bottom is pretty stupid by any standard.

Probably for spooked. Happens at that age, so I hear.