conaero
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Indeed, I do sympathise. But, with 2 people and 2 salaries, it is still achievable according to your man maths.This is interesting, young Matty. In our yoof we were encouraged to get a foot on the housing ladder, often with a >100% LTV mortgage. Now, the poor buggers can't even get a toe on because the average house price in the UK is £227k and the average full-time salary is £35k. At a 3x salary multiplier, today's yoof would need to save £120k in cash before they could buy the average house on their average salary. So they may as well go and lease a daft car and spunk it all on the latest Apple stuff.
Still, it's certainly true that the world is massively overpopulated. I quite like it here, though, and I'm looking forward to LM 2020, so I won't yet be volunteering for the cull.
Suppose the sensible thing to do is to start to syphon money from the parent estate fund to get the kids house started (2 kids in one house, half each) and let them have it early rather than later.