blueskyinmarch Sun 28-Jan-18 09:16:31

Me and DH are baby boomers and have done very well with housing as we managed to buy a house (low prices and zero interest mortgage) when we first married in our early 20s and have never rented. We didn't work hard for it, we just got it because DH worked for a life assurance company and it was a job related benefit. We now own a lovely house in a lovely area but we have never been smug about this.



Out DD1 on the other hand, at age 25, earns well but lives in London and knows she is unlikely to ever be able to buy a house, no matter how hard she works. She knows that is just how it is. She is aware she could buy a house of she moved elsewhere but she loves her job and London. I don't think she resents our good luck having been born at a different time, she gets things are not the same now.



She and DD2 will be quids in when we pop our clogs though!