Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Another senior appointment

I don't think anyone has suggested that, I know that to afford a house when I did took a great deal of sacrifice and the mortgage payments consumed most of my earnings. If I hadn't bought when I did, the house that we did buy and sold on TWO years later had nearly doubled in price, and we had done nothing to it. And the second house we did buy within FIVE years had more than doubled in price. These were the days when the building society determined how much equity you kept, they kept all my equity from the move so I had to pay the estate agent and solicitor's fees out of my own funds.

This was a time when well paying jobs in the UK were gone, and I had to work for a US Corporation travelling the world, taking the next 10 years of my life living in hotels most of the time rarely home. So please don't tell me the baby boomers had it easy, all the jobs disappeared overnight in the Midlands my home as the industrial heart collapsed and like many of my school friends who either moved south or abroad to find work, having to leave friends, family and their home towns behind. Many people that stayed behind with now redundant skills sets eg machinists, tool setters, lathe operators have not faired so well in the intervening years.