Travel.

[Scrumpy]

I have put this thread up because I was interested in what others were saying on Village News..

I have travelled to many countries...
As a child we were excited to go on a (yearly) coach trip to Littlehampton..
Mum would bake pies and make sandwiches .. We went with a group of friends.. Stopping off at a pub along the way.. We were all happy and sang as we travelled along..

My children/ grandchildren travel far today, thinking nothing of it..
They talk in thousands.. !!!  I don't remember having a thousand pounds when I was young..
I doubt I even said 'Thousand' when talking about money..

[klondike]

You need rather a lot of those to get a house these days. My first cost £2,500 but shortly after there was a huge boom in prices - I'm not sure quite why and when I moved about 18 month later it sold for £5,400 not that it helped me particularly as the one I bought cost more. I don't recall the exact price but know it was over £6,000. There were other houses I had that pretty much doubled in value but none in so short a timescale as that first one. It would be worth a bit over £200k now going by the prices others in that area sell for.

[Mups]

Yes Klondie, I remember those days too.
Our first brand new-build home at Irchester, was around  £2,400, too.   Hardly seems possible now, does it.
We had the option of having an attached garage built too,  for an extra £220.   
You could barely buy a decent tent for that now!

Mind you,   wages and cost of living  were also far less than they are now, too.

[Michael Rolls]

Susa n, my first wife, and I bought a three bed semi in 1958 for £5999. It. Was in Surbiton although not the most expensive area, a house we really liked was £10k.
A couple of years ago, perhaps a bit less, an identical house a couple of doors away was on the market 'offers over £750,000!'

[Mups]

I wonder how these unrealistic house prices can be justified?   
I mean,  what's changed?  A house is still the same bricks and mortar,  garden size,  driveway,  etc that it always was,   so why such ridiculous  price increases?
And even many posher areas that were,  are no longer as desirable as they were years ago, with many new-builds swamping every bit of greenery there was.