r/Glasgow Tools

Title
Author	ResidualBiscuit
Comment	I tried to get a place in Castle Gait when I was still living next to Mr Kebab. It was affordable (at a push) but aye, anything over 450 is totally unrealistic for me (21k, yas). 600 for a place seems normal to some people. It fucking isn't. Honestly 300 to 500 should be where we are at as an average range for your basic decent nick 1 and 2 beds, obviously not accounting for area. If I was to pay that I'd be fuether and further in the red every month. Just don't have the capacity. I've tried looking at HA's and that as well as MMRs but they all are allocated and pretty much always go to families. Totally unattainable. Even their prices are up. I fear being pushed out further afield just to be able to live. It's like gentrification without the upscaling of the area, in a way. I feel the same overall. I genuinely feel that we are in the early stages of societal collapse. It won't get _too_ bad for us but the next generations are done for. On the verge of another global war nobody seems to want to avoid, ecological and environmental decay are accelerating, inequality and poverty rising exponentially, resource scarcity, eventually the water becomes a problem and that's when things get real bad. Fuck me we are even seeing a resurgence of fascism, including the beginning sparks of it in our own government, and nobody seems too bothered by it. It is happening. And pretty much everyone knew yet nobody done anything to avoid it. Instead we just pretend it's all temporary and fine and better days of prosperity are ahead when they sure as fuck are not. Call me defeatist or pessimistic if you feel I am but I see that as the harsh reality of where we have allowed the gross misnagement of our world to lead us.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/y3v8g5/anyone_else_feel_completely_worn_out_at_the_world/isblvpq/
Created	Fri 14th Oct 2022 7:43pm
Status	normal ()

I tried to get a place in Castle Gait when I was still living next to Mr Kebab. It was affordable (at a push) but aye, anything over 450 is totally unrealistic for me (21k, yas).

600 for a place seems normal to some people. It fucking isn't. Honestly 300 to 500 should be where we are at as an average range for your basic decent nick 1 and 2 beds, obviously not accounting for area. If I was to pay that I'd be fuether and further in the red every month. Just don't have the capacity.

I've tried looking at HA's and that as well as MMRs but they all are allocated and pretty much always go to families. Totally unattainable. Even their prices are up. I fear being pushed out further afield just to be able to live. It's like gentrification without the upscaling of the area, in a way.

I feel the same overall. I genuinely feel that we are in the early stages of societal collapse. It won't get _too_ bad for us but the next generations are done for. On the verge of another global war nobody seems to want to avoid, ecological and environmental decay are accelerating, inequality and poverty rising exponentially, resource scarcity, eventually the water becomes a problem and that's when things get real bad. Fuck me we are even seeing a resurgence of fascism, including the beginning sparks of it in our own government, and nobody seems too bothered by it. It is happening. And pretty much everyone knew yet nobody done anything to avoid it. Instead we just pretend it's all temporary and fine and better days of prosperity are ahead when they sure as fuck are not. Call me defeatist or pessimistic if you feel I am but I see that as the harsh reality of where we have allowed the gross misnagement of our world to lead us.