Sticks and stones will break my bones, but my last mortgage payment was 3 years ago.
My late grandfather paid £10,000 for his house in the 1970s.
Do old people even say stuff like that here?
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>lmao
It’s really Pauline that’s laughing though isn’t it!
The difference being that Ireland was a shithole country back then with no prospects. You’d think the way people go on how easy it was to buy back then that everyone was living the dream. So how come emigration was so high in the 80s? Why do we have so much immigration now?
And people are always like “my parents bought in D4 for 10k pounds”. Sorry to say but they were priviliged. My parents were too poor to buy and had to move in with parents and their siblings.
One time my grandma complained that she had 3 houses back in the days and it was difficult.
Interest rates were a lot higher back then, +10% so it was cheap but the difference was you could go visit the bank manager and make your case for getting a mortgage. Now it’s “computer says no”
£17,000 in 2004
Grandad paid 8k for his 3 bed detached house. Now he’d get around 800k
You’d forget that people made a hundred pound a week back then.(I’m wrong) The average wage was 56 punt in 1975, equating to roughly 390 euro in 2015.
6 grand was a lot of money back then bro
I was changing a shower in a guys house a few months ago.This property had 6 bedrooms in it, all of which were numbered units. He told me he bought the house for 24k back in the day and it was the most expensive of the 4 houses he owned. I’ll never be getting a call off him again as that was the most expensive shower I’ve ever fit.
SO’s grandfather built his own house in 6 months by using half his wage each week on supplies and getting someone in to help him now and again. Can you imagine being able to afford the supplies for a house on 3 months wages?
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Sticks and stones will break my bones, but my last mortgage payment was 3 years ago.
My late grandfather paid £10,000 for his house in the 1970s.
Do old people even say stuff like that here?
[deleted]
>lmao
It’s really Pauline that’s laughing though isn’t it!
The difference being that Ireland was a shithole country back then with no prospects. You’d think the way people go on how easy it was to buy back then that everyone was living the dream. So how come emigration was so high in the 80s? Why do we have so much immigration now?
And people are always like “my parents bought in D4 for 10k pounds”. Sorry to say but they were priviliged. My parents were too poor to buy and had to move in with parents and their siblings.
One time my grandma complained that she had 3 houses back in the days and it was difficult.
Interest rates were a lot higher back then, +10% so it was cheap but the difference was you could go visit the bank manager and make your case for getting a mortgage. Now it’s “computer says no”
£17,000 in 2004
Grandad paid 8k for his 3 bed detached house. Now he’d get around 800k
You’d forget that people made a hundred pound a week back then.(I’m wrong) The average wage was 56 punt in 1975, equating to roughly 390 euro in 2015.
6 grand was a lot of money back then bro
I was changing a shower in a guys house a few months ago.This property had 6 bedrooms in it, all of which were numbered units. He told me he bought the house for 24k back in the day and it was the most expensive of the 4 houses he owned. I’ll never be getting a call off him again as that was the most expensive shower I’ve ever fit.
SO’s grandfather built his own house in 6 months by using half his wage each week on supplies and getting someone in to help him now and again. Can you imagine being able to afford the supplies for a house on 3 months wages?