can someone please confirm that i'm being an arsehole?
specifically. someone posted the tweet on facebook about a girl having spent £100k in rent in 12 years so never being able to afford a house. that makes £700 a month. her twitter handle suggests she is mancunian so i questioned whether she needed to spend that much to rent in manc.
when i was doing my masters, 12 years ago, i rented a nice room in a flat share with one other person for £250 a month, my current house when I was sharing was less than £400 per month (both in manc which is why i feel like my opinion on rents here is valid). so i think this girl has made some fucking poor decisions about where she rents and that's why she can't afford a deposit, its not some landlords fault.
what is it that i'm not seeing.
its pissing me off, they are telling me my rent is only so cheap cos i must be overcrowded/in a shit area/mouldy house/lacking facilities when in fact its the going rent in my area and i have a nice place.
i agree that the housing market is fucked and puts a lot of people at a disadvantage but surely the buck stops when you opt to live somewhere that costs hundred per month more than you need to pay for a decent place.