Multiple car ownership

"Uno Hoo!" <kev@dropthisbigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> The fact that so few young adults are prepared to actually grow up and
> become independent today is proving a real problem when single households
> can often have four or five car owning members.

Maybe its not there reluctance to move out, maybe they cant afford a
house/flat to move into with the boom in the housing market and the recent
rise in interest rates?

Steve

Uno Hoo! wrote:

> All very true - but what is more important? And they are only
> putting off the inevitable and storing up even more problems for the
> future. The sooner you get on the property owning ladder the better.
>

Isn't the root of the problem that there's too many older people pricing the
following generation out of the market?

JackH wrote:

> I don't disagree with that - renting is dead money... but when it's
> the only option, (regardless of whether you live the life of a monk
> or not), that will put a roof over your head, then so be it.

Since you always have to spend money on somewhere to live, when do you ever
resurrect the money you paid the mortgage lender? The interest on the loan
being completely dead money.

"Uno Hoo!" <kev@dropthisbigfoot.com> wrote in message
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>> On the other hand, the cost of buying a car, new or otherwise, has fallen
>> in
>> real terms - go figure.
>
> All very true - but what is more important?

My car, thanks.

"Uno Hoo!" <kev@dropthisbigfoot.com> wrote in message
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>>> All very true - but what is more important?
>>
>> My car, thanks.
>
> Thus fully supporting my argument that young adults today would rather
> spend > their money on luxuries and sponge the necessities of life off
> their parents for as long as possible.

I wouldn't call it sponging.

Are you bitter becuase your parents kicked you out at 16, or something? ;)

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:13:41 UTC, "Uno Hoo!" <kev@dropthisbigfoot.com>
wrote:

: Thus fully supporting my argument that young adults today would rather spend
: their money on luxuries and sponge the necessities of life off their parents
: for as long as possible.

Aren't you in favour of more cohesive family structures in society?

Ian

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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:08:25 UTC, Dave J <requiem@freeuk.com> wrote:

: I don't know the situation now, but about 5 years ago there were still
: old people in institutions who had been there since those days, kept
: there to the point of becoming 'institutionlalised', never leaving.

Yup, I had a friend who worked in the Littlemore bin in Oxford before
they kicked all their victims out on the streets, and she worked with
several littleold ladies who were in for getting up the duff in the
fifties. There was even one little old man who was in becuase his
presumed-insane single mother gave birth to him there and he was
therefore presumed insane too. He had lived in a mental hospital for
over seventy years...

Ian
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