Comments by "Roger Smith" (@rogersmith8339) on "Debate: How do we fix Britain's housing crisis?" video.

😅When I used to listen to some of the younger guys at work talking about their houses it was very clear why they were struggling with their mortgage. I remember describing my first actual house to one of them (a one bedroom starter home) and they couldn't believe anyone would want a place like that. Most had much bigger houses than I live in at present. I had the last laugh when I retired early with no mortgage, buying a yacht for the same as I paid for my house pretty much cash.
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@missrockafella9432 People's expectations have become quite unrealistic of late due to the "entitlement" they think they have (often from watching too much TV / internet).
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@francescapowell1538 Too many poor people would be poor again in a month if you gave them 10k
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@etiennedelaunois1737 I guess you must be from the entitled generations who think the world owes them and everything they see on TV and in adverts is normal.
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That poor single mum with two children can hardly afford to feed herself, just look how skinny she is!
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More like "ordinary people" are out of touch with the real world!
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@maggieadams8600 A corrupt democracy will always be worse for the masses than an honest dictatorship.
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@missrockafella9432 Please get real. I could not dream of affording a house until I was about 25 (1983) and then it was only a studio flat which I needed a 3x salary mortgage for. I had no telly or even a phone. Thinking a little further back to when I learnt to drive, my first car was two years older than me! Even my first real house (1 bed starter home) needed a pretty big mortgage compared to my salary. You say about uni loans but you don't have to go to uni!
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The biggest problem these days is that what many people consider to be a reasonable house is so far above what my generation would have been more than happy with. That cannot be right.
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@raven-sf3di You got it spot on there, expectations aka entitlement. People think that they are entitled to all sorts of unrealistic things, just because they see them on TV / the internet. It is all part of the capitalist trap to feather the nests of the rich at the expense of ordinary people.
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