To the ultimate in fascism: apartheid S Africa.
It was - interesting and a wee bit dangerous. Being caught between two sides you didn't have a lot of time for..
But as my aussie friend said 'at least you will get meat three times a day' and fundamentally yes, I wasn't hungry and broke any more.
I came back cured of a social guilt after three years and set about becoming a millionaire.
I can't think of two less attractive concepts. Azerbaijan. Eurovision Song Contest.
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I would hope that most people have more interesting lives than for that to be the high point.
Colin Bignell
Absolutely, far too much effort required. The ratio of energy in to enjoyment out is pretty lousy. But then, i'm a pensioner and fresh out of brown paper bags ;) Where TF is my raspberry. Rodders will know :D
There is a woman involved.
Also, who can honestly say that the first time was the best sex they ever had?
Get some more. There is evidence it helps reduce the risk of prostate cancer.
Colin Bignell
If you think that, then you clearly know nothing about the seventies - or many other decades for that matter. But if you guide your view of the seventies from newspapers or Thatcher's lies then that is understandable
- to both of them the 'truth' was something they only had a fleeting relationship with.
Crikey. You've got good staying powers.
I remember in the 70's that a man could have a job and buy a decent house with a large garden.
I remember the State was not interefering with personal life even 1/10 of what it is today.
I remember school (primary) and what we were being taught was actually less/worse than my kids are being taught today - and I still think state schools are weak - so heaven knows how bad they were then!
As usuall, it is swings and roundabouts...
It was the decade of becoming an adult. A driving licence, no money worrys, legally allowed in pubs, no kids. I loved it.
That is very true - I bought this house while on a distinctly average salary from the BBC, in '74. A few doors down - near identical house - is on the market at 1.1 million. How much would you have to earn to buy that as a first time buyer with a 10% deposit?
that wa teh late 60;'s
By the 70s all I had were money worries.
I could npt afford to buy a house till 1993.
The difference then, as now, was that you were a public sector employee.
Then you should have learned how to work harder. Or how to spend what you earned wisely.
Last time I was a 'public sector' employee was 1976. So less than a third of my working life spent as such.
I spent my 70's weekend evenings with my brother sat in my Dad's Capri/Cortina (whatever new car he had bought that year) in the pub car park whilst he was in the pub getting pissed. Every hour he gave us crisps and pop.
At some point Ford altered the wiring on the cars so that the cassette player (we had The Wombles, Blondie and Boney M cassettes) only worked with ignition on and we had to be left with the car keys. And yes we did crash the car. I cannot remember if that was also the same night we burnt loads of holes into the vinyl seats with the cars cig lighter.
10% of 1,100,000 =3D 110,000. Leaves =A3990,000 to pay back over 25 year= s =A339,600/year just for the capital and nothing for anything else. So to allow for eating and bills a gross salary of at least =A360k+.
What's that got to do with it? Income is income no matter the "sector" you are in. A BBC salary at that time was "average". I started in late 1978 on =A32,500/annum gross.
Lots of work then? Were you in some sort of engineering?
What social guilt?
Did you succeed?!
Had a friend who worked out there for a couple of years as a project manager for an oil company, probably 10-15 years ago. He couldn't wait to get back. I can't remember the specific reasons now, but he did have a gun pointed at him a few times.
I think she was emailing me too...
When I bought my first house (1986), max mortgage was up to 3 x salary, and ideally a 20% deposit (you could drop to 10% if you paid a one-off extra insurance premium against repossession with a drop in house price).
I wasn't following the market, but I think at the peak (just before the crash), you could go up to around 6 x salary, and 100% mortgage (but possibly not both together). So you would probably need to be on £170,000.
No idea what the current rules are, but I'm pretty sure you'd need to be on a lot more than that nowadays for the same price house.
Of course, if you did buy at the peak, the house would now be worth somewhat less than your mortgage.
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