Renting a house/ flat

[Niall]

Tom young people can happily rent once they have a suitable income. Getting a mortgage is obviously substantially more difficult because you need a huge deposit and even then, seems like you need a huge combined wage. Tbh it's only this country that has a real obsession with owning a home. There's no reason you can't rent but obviously each has its own benefits but now that house prices are rocketing and young people struggle to get any sort of decent mortgage, people are going to have to either stay at home with their parents till there 30s or rent.

Kingy, completely agree. It pisses me off that generally people on benefits are better off than people who work but saying that you might as well go on benefits because your better off makes you no better than them. Last year Fiona was working part time in a shop when at the time, that was the only work she could get. We sat down one evening and worked it out and she would of been fully eligible to go on job seekers allowance and every other benefit under the sun and be earning more than she was in her shitty job. It's too easy to not work and get paid but she didn't because that's unfair on the people who genuinely need them benefits and makes you as bigger wanker as all these people who do just want to get on benefits so they can get their council house or rent paid.

Pellowe, everyone should have the choice to raise a child. You seem to be one of the decent guys who would rather work to support his family but what I don't think that people should be doing is having a child when they can't financially sustain it and therefore need to go on benefits.