Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, toxicity and dog-whistling are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
7) No Hit-and-Run questions.
Please don't delete your post for no apparent reason. If you plan on deleting a question later, say so in the post, or if you feel that you have a good reason to remove it, message a mod beforehand. It's not fair to the ones who took their time to answer, and it's not in the spirit of the community.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
5x20=100
The most modest house I could find last time I looked (about 8 years ago) was £200k and they wanted a deposit of £80k because my income was only the national average.
No life, because if you were saving £10k a year on minimum wage then at the current rate you'd have about £10k/year after tax to cover all bills ... remove car & insurance (or public transport costs), a single rented room including utilities at the normal rate of about £500/month, plus tax etc, and you wouldn't have much money left over.
Cars cost a shitload, so I didn't get one and just walk/cycled to work. Spent that money on rounds at spoons instead.
Also plenty of flats for less if you are buying on your own. Expecting an entire house on your own is probably a bit much for most people.
That's fair, for most of my life I've had to commute further than public transport could take me ... and now you come to mention it, I did once buy a flat for £20K (though it needed everything)
£20k sounds like a long time ago or a complete dump. But a bit more can get something alright. Depends what you want to spend of course.
I either moved to walking distance of work or only looked for jobs I could walk/cycle to.
I didn't have the option of moving or being selective about jobs.
It was a complete dump. A little old lady had died there, she was a chain smoker and nothing had been cleaned or fixed in the previous 30 or so years.
Sounds not too far off the house we got tbh. Though no obvious signs of smoking, just a musty damp smell. Replacing the 4 layers of wallpaper was fun and then plastering the patches where the plaster just about fell off the wall.