Atlantic Xpat

Nostalgia was so much better in the good old days...

BristolUK

if I'd not seen Breaking Bad I wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about

scrubbedexpat091

I just started watching breaking bad a few days ago, good show. Almost done with season 3.

dave_j

Bomb sites in London that were adventure playgrounds without supervision, wonderful for children. All built over within years and nobody asked us if we kids minded.

Jingsamichty

In 1989 me and my mates were renting a flat in Kilburn. We decided to rent a telly so went down to Radio Rentals in Kilburn High Road, chose an old telly for about 15 quid a month, and the guy just unplugged it and said 'there you go'... We had to go and nick a trolley from the supermarket down the road and wheel this huge great beast of a thing back to our flat.

Renting a TV.. something our kids will probably never have to do.

Danny B

Radio rentals, what a throwback. I remember my Nan used to rent a VHS recorder from them at one point.

Shard

And now you can get a 40" flatscreen for £150 in Tesco's!

dave_j

No.. but they'll be renting flats and houses instead, they won't be able to afford to buy them.

When my father returned from the war, that's WW2 that is, he tells me he could have bought a house in SE London for £400. He continued to rent from the council for the rest of his life. His brother later bought a huge victorian semi for £12k and we thought him mad... more fools us.

mikelincs

My first house cost £2000 in 1967

Jingsamichty

When I was 16, in 1985, I got an evening/weekend job as a waiter at a hotel for £3.00/hour. I was still at school, making about £40-50 a week which went to running my Vespa and an extremely vigorous social life.

Fast forward thirty two years and my 17 year old son is working part time in the local shop during his A levels for £4.00/hour. 33% rise in 32 years...

And he's expected to then pay £50k to go to University (when we went for free), AND fund the older generation's pensions through BTL rents.

Remember when one generation always hoped the one after it would be better off than themselves... ? No, neither do these Tory thieves.

Shard

It really is a sorry state of affairs for today's youth. I don't specifically blame the Tories, it does seem to be a (developed) world wide phenomena.

The only other depressing thing is learning that even you are younger than me.

scrubbedexpat091

I remember in the 1990's when 15/hr seemed like a lot of money....

Not so much now.

Jingsamichty

Thanks mate, you've made my day. How old are you then, and what the hell do you want to move to Canada for as an old man??

BristolUK

Chocolate came in foil wrappers

scrubbedexpat091

I remember those days, when I was a kid/teen some bars still came in the foil with a paper wrapping, may even had been like that into the early 00's.