| Comment | Mate. I live in Paisley. I moved here cos cheap. Before I found Mt current place I remember seeing this utter dive place listed for 300. The same place is listed now for 550 with a paint job and a carpet down.
You used to be able to find half decent 1 beds for 300 to 400. Now they're al 500, 600.
A girl I used to know lived at those wedge flats next to where the Pure gym and that are. Maybe 2 years ago? 3? It was 800. Its now listed at I shit you not 1600 a month.
I want to move to a 2 bed as my partner is moving in with me but they're absurdly unaffordable. Like honestly I pay 350 and I an barely make ends meet working 50 hours a week.
We are fucked.
Anyone who thinks this is temporary and prices will go down in 2 years when enough people have died are fucking lunatics. We are living through a period of mass wealth transfer on a scale we haven't seen in a long time. This isn't some unavoidable cause of the Glorious Free Market Never To Be Defied, but a calculated and deliberate shafting of those at the bottom to maintain the lifestyles of those above.
Keep an eye on the suicide rate over the next 12 to 24 months. |
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