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!'