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He can't find a flat big enough for 3 people?
You can't be serious. You do know that some homeless people have good degrees? That was just an example that not everything is as easy as getting a degree, working hard and jumping into a well paid job. Suceeding in life isn't all about putting the effort and a bit of elbow grease in, personal and social circumstance play a major part. I think you need to calm down tbh. I think blagsta hit a raw nerve.
Where the fuck's he looking? Park Lane?
Yerascrote - yeh, he hit a nerve. I know my dad's salary is way above average. I didn't say that it wasn't, but that wasn't my point. In his current situation he can't afford the kind of house that he needs (or will need) - that was my point.
Also, I know that circumstances play a big part in these things, and I know my dad is lucky to be where he is (he wouldn't be earning nearly as much if he still worked over here, but hey), but MOST of it was because he did work hard. He had a pretty shitty life, but he's taken himself out of the shithole he grew up in and taken himself right to the top. I know it's not always possible to do that, but it IS possible.
And that doesn't take away from the fact that they were being irresponsible by having more children than they could afford, really.
Surely you mean the house he wants, not needs?
Of course it's possible, but to expect everyone to do it, simply on the merits that it's possible, merely disregards the complexities of life.
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You didn't read about it in a tabloid did you? They're not exactly strange to manipulating and twisting stories to suit their agenda.
Who told you that? Dodgy Dave down the pub?
Well, yes and no. He needs a house big enough to house him and his family, as well as to provide enough space to keep a hyperactive 5 year old with a tendency to run around ANYWHERE entertained. But yeh, the house he wants. But what he wants is hardly Buckingham Palace.
I know that. I wasn't saying that every single person in the world can do it, but there were people saying things like "he had no qualifications, therefore no prospects", which isn't automatically true. I'm sure if he had *really* wanted to, he would have been able to get a promotion from shelf stacking. Plus (and this is what Rich said when I showed him this story) if he doesn't work, why doesn't he study to GET some qualifications so that he has a better chance at a better job?
IMO (bolded so that nobody starts calling me snobbish or whatever, it is my opinion), I don't think either of them are being particularly good role-models for their children. If my parents had 12 kids and didn't work, but got to live in a £500k house, I would see that as how people should live, if I was an impressionable kid. It wouldn't give me any motivation to work for a living, and so I wouldn't. I know everybody is different, but that is how it would be for me.
I would feel exactly the same.
How do you know he isn't? Yet another irony here. If he worked, he'd have to pay for any college course he wanted to go on. If he doesn't work, he gets to do them for free.
I have no sympathy with your whinging. Your dad can afford a decent house, he's on over 4 times the average salary. He can afford a 4 bedroom house in Cirencester
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/search.rsp?lo_u=329&lo_n=Cirencester%2C+Gloucestershire&se_c=1&poi_e=0&poi_n=0&nh_st=1&stc_s=false&p_t=1&mi_b=4&tr_t=buy&pa_n=5&eventsubmit_dosearch=1&initial_search_time=1185474787831
If he lived here and earned that, maybe. But not right now. Until you know exactly what my dad's circumstances are and what his plans are, I suggest you shut up because you actually haven't got a clue.
Aww well what a shame. He's chosen to live and work in a forgeign country. He can buy a house to suit his needs there instead.
If you're gonna whinge about how unfair it is that your dad earns shit loads of money then you're gonna get stick for it.
Of course he can afford it.
Sofie, £100k in Kenya = £100k in th UK, because it's the same amount. £ sign is a bit of a hint...
No, I was backing you up.
Yeah I know that...
Oddly enough, he actually wants to live near his other 4 children, and he wants Naomi to have most of her education here.
Tbh, I don't even know why I'm bothering anymore. It wasn't even a massive part of what I was trying to say, and none of you will be able to understand unless you can see what he's doing anyway.
Where was I whinging about how much money he earns? I wasn't even whinging ffs. I was saying what I thought.