Your parent’s place, or mine?
I remember as a teenager watching the cast of The Hills and thinking, ‘I can’t wait to be in my twenties with a great job in the city, my own apartment and partying every weekend with my money’… Let’s all laugh together . Little did I know I would still be living at home because I can barely afford a flat share in the city, let alone my own apartment. A genuine problem amongst ‘millennial's’ is that despite how much we want to move out for good, financially -it’s not easy. The prospect of buying your own house in your mid-twenties, which was something perfectly doable in our parents’ generation, is just not as attainable, especially if you are single (another repercussion for being 4eva alone). Sure, there are government enforced schemes which are supposed to help us, but to what extent do they enable young people the option of stepping on the property ladder? Unless you have 15k + spare for a deposit, in addition to a high enough wage that your mortgage offer would cover the pr...
