Expensive Car, cheap area.
09 July 2009, 09:24 AM
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Expensive Car, cheap area.
I often look around a number of different car forums, looking in the for sale sections for any deals.
Recently Ive noticed the amount of adverts for cars, with pics, that show a expensive cars in a crappy / cheap / poor areas.
Okay, so this might not be the person's house, but why would you want to take a pic of a nice dear car in a cheap area ?? So, more than likey is.
I would rather have a nice house, in a nicer area, than an expensive car in a **** hole.
No doubt this will cause a few angry replies :-)
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Recently Ive noticed the amount of adverts for cars, with pics, that show a expensive cars in a crappy / cheap / poor areas.
Okay, so this might not be the person's house, but why would you want to take a pic of a nice dear car in a cheap area ?? So, more than likey is.
I would rather have a nice house, in a nicer area, than an expensive car in a **** hole.
No doubt this will cause a few angry replies :-)
SBK
09 July 2009, 10:14 AM
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Some people, even those in less desirable area's can get car finance.
Some people live with their parents still. Just cos mum and Dad are lazy layabouts who sponge of the state, doesn't mean their offspring can't have a job that allows them to buy a nice car.
Some people live with their parents still. Just cos mum and Dad are lazy layabouts who sponge of the state, doesn't mean their offspring can't have a job that allows them to buy a nice car.
09 July 2009, 12:16 PM
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I often look around a number of different car forums, looking in the for sale sections for any deals.
Recently Ive noticed the amount of adverts for cars, with pics, that show a expensive cars in a crappy / cheap / poor areas.
Okay, so this might not be the person's house, but why would you want to take a pic of a nice dear car in a cheap area ?? So, more than likey is.
I would rather have a nice house, in a nicer area, than an expensive car in a **** hole.
No doubt this will cause a few angry replies :-)
SBK
Recently Ive noticed the amount of adverts for cars, with pics, that show a expensive cars in a crappy / cheap / poor areas.
Okay, so this might not be the person's house, but why would you want to take a pic of a nice dear car in a cheap area ?? So, more than likey is.
I would rather have a nice house, in a nicer area, than an expensive car in a **** hole.
No doubt this will cause a few angry replies :-)
SBK
09 July 2009, 12:35 PM
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Quite possibly a lot of chavs now cant afford the repayments and have to get shot ...
...prolly cant afford a tenners gas to shoot it outside some country residence
...prolly cant afford a tenners gas to shoot it outside some country residence
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09 July 2009, 12:38 PM
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Plenty of rough areas around here and when you drive through them many have £20k+ cars such as Discoverys, Pathfinders and X5's on the driveways or parked on the pavements outside. I do wonder why these people live in such a rough area if they have that much money to spend on a car.
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09 July 2009, 12:51 PM
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Plenty of rough areas around here and when you drive through them many have £20k+ cars such as Discoverys, Pathfinders and X5's on the driveways or parked on the pavements outside. I do wonder why these people live in such a rough area if they have that much money to spend on a car.
You can't get much of a house for £20k though
09 July 2009, 12:59 PM
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I think you're all missing the point!!!!
All these people are laughing their bollocks off at us because during the 90s they had the 'right to buy' their council house for 30p and now they are mortgage free with their house worth anything upto 200k (examples in my home town of Harrogate) hence why they can afford to have 'expensive' cars.
All these people are laughing their bollocks off at us because during the 90s they had the 'right to buy' their council house for 30p and now they are mortgage free with their house worth anything upto 200k (examples in my home town of Harrogate) hence why they can afford to have 'expensive' cars.
09 July 2009, 01:04 PM
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No but that £20k might have been better spent when buying the house and living somewhere less rough. Only how I see things no right or wrong, just find it strange some people prefer to have an expensive car and live in a rough area. To me a house is the most important thing you ever buy so I spend every penny I can when buying a house and then have much cheaper cars.
09 July 2009, 01:20 PM
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Everyone thought I was some sort of drug gang lord and left my car well alone
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09 July 2009, 01:47 PM
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No but that £20k might have been better spent when buying the house and living somewhere less rough. Only how I see things no right or wrong, just find it strange some people prefer to have an expensive car and live in a rough area. To me a house is the most important thing you ever buy so I spend every penny I can when buying a house and then have much cheaper cars.
As said above. Could be a mix of bought from the Council for 30p, and/or they just feel comfortable there. Mixing with the same crowd. They all know each other etc.
Guess it's what you're used to. When I met my G/F, she lived in a very rough area. I wouldn't live there. Fighting on the streets every weekend, and sometimes through the week. I found her a larger house in a better part of town. Not great part (where I live) but better. She's been in a couple months now, and admits she's finding it hard to adjust. Prefers it where she is, but lived for so long in her old part of town, it's all she was used to.
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09 July 2009, 01:52 PM
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I think you're all missing the point!!!!
All these people are laughing their bollocks off at us because during the 90s they had the 'right to buy' their council house for 30p and now they are mortgage free with their house worth anything upto 200k (examples in my home town of Harrogate) hence why they can afford to have 'expensive' cars.
All these people are laughing their bollocks off at us because during the 90s they had the 'right to buy' their council house for 30p and now they are mortgage free with their house worth anything upto 200k (examples in my home town of Harrogate) hence why they can afford to have 'expensive' cars.
My inlaws live in a ditchwater estate and those houses owned by the state have had thousands spent on each one - new central heating system? state pays. New driveways and garden walls and pretty much everything - state pays.
Everyone is on the sick and those that aren't on the sick are working - there are that many people working that nobody says anything because they are all at it.
They can afford decent cars either because they get it off the state or because they don't have to pay for anything other than themselves and they can still obtain loans of thousands of pounds.
The sink estate where I live, just about all the cars are 3 years old or less. I know one family who are blatantly on the sick and the dude walks with a cane - a cane? They have an 09 mini and she is dressed like an overweight unattractive J Lo.
09 July 2009, 04:20 PM
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I guess if you got the house off the council for peanuts and its free living then it makes it an easy choice to stay there and have every penny you earn being spending money.
09 July 2009, 04:41 PM
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Not even that to be honest, just the area, i.e. rough council estate in Maidstone. Wouldn't matter what it is like on the inside and again pretty much like spending loads on cars you see many 'cheaper' houses with very done up insides where lots of cash has been spent.
I guess if you got the house off the council for peanuts and its free living then it makes it an easy choice to stay there and have every penny you earn being spending money.
I guess if you got the house off the council for peanuts and its free living then it makes it an easy choice to stay there and have every penny you earn being spending money.
09 July 2009, 04:56 PM
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Prefer to live in the nicer area myself, as it is generally less hassle in the long run, i have mates who still spunk thousands into cars, but live at home with the parents, big shock coming up for them when they finally move out!
09 July 2009, 05:04 PM
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I'd be one of those to be honest with the older car on the driveway. I'd rather have the nice house and not pay for a nice new car and other stuff as the house is more important than anything else to me, it's where my kids are spending their childhood and I want them to have the nicest house to grow up in as I can stretch myself to.
My choice would be to be in this situation and not live mortgage free in an ex council house that i'd have bought for next to nothing.
My choice would be to be in this situation and not live mortgage free in an ex council house that i'd have bought for next to nothing.
09 July 2009, 05:15 PM
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I'd be one of those to be honest with the older car on the driveway. I'd rather have the nice house and not pay for a nice new car and other stuff as the house is more important than anything else to me, it's where my kids are spending their childhood and I want them to have the nicest house to grow up in as I can stretch myself to.
My choice would be to be in this situation and not live mortgage free in an ex council house that i'd have bought for next to nothing.
My choice would be to be in this situation and not live mortgage free in an ex council house that i'd have bought for next to nothing.
My brother is a bit of a wideboy, likes to flash the "imaginary" cash, letting people know he is "loaded" but he lives in the local bosnia, and is currently trying to get a "nicer" council house, i would not live where he lives, infact i couldnt anyway, as the local scumbag drug dealer lives 2 doors up from him, and he once stole a cd player from my car, unfortuantly it ended up with me going around and smashing all his windows to ****ery
and then grabbing hold of his faggy gay gang members one by one to explain the situation, somebody told me once that a reward?!? was once set at 50quid for anybody that found me and put me in hospital 
NICE ESTATE!
09 July 2009, 05:21 PM
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There is also the why not thing, just because you have a modest house it doesnt mean you are any less of a car enthusiast, also those that live in smaller cheaper houses whether bought off the council or not tend to have smaller bills, a smaller house costs less to insure (ok, area is related), less to heat, less for Council tax and potentially based on socio economic factors people may live cheaper, cheaper food, cheaper clothes and not bother with private schools or medical insurance, gym memberships, horses, house in France and all the other middle class trappings and just go for cheap fun and instant gratification freed from the need to live up to a lifestyle. They may earn as much as someone in a posh area as well but dont see the point of doing wthout stuff for a "better" house when the one they are in serves its purpose, sometimes I think we get envious of spending power of people alledgedly further down the ladder, the ones that go to Magaluf three times a year when we are skinning ourselves to pay for and run a bigger house in a better area, I do !
Ok, if they are leeching money from the state or massive debt then thats bad but if its just working folk then its down to priorities and there is no law to dictate what you can and cant have based on Postcode.
We live in a nice area in Cheshire, 4 bed detached, three kids at private school, Bupa and all that but I cant afford at the moment to take the kids on much of a holiday, cant afford to change my car etc etc, I earn more than double the national average salary.
Who's the mug !!!!!
Ok, if they are leeching money from the state or massive debt then thats bad but if its just working folk then its down to priorities and there is no law to dictate what you can and cant have based on Postcode.
We live in a nice area in Cheshire, 4 bed detached, three kids at private school, Bupa and all that but I cant afford at the moment to take the kids on much of a holiday, cant afford to change my car etc etc, I earn more than double the national average salary.
Who's the mug !!!!!
09 July 2009, 05:24 PM
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They have the mug, you have the nice little tea cup that you can drink from (little finger pointing out) while you look down on the great unwashed 
Its fackin great up here is it not?
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Its fackin great up here is it not?
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09 July 2009, 05:38 PM
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You'll also often find the people who live in these really rough areas and have nice cars, are the roughest people there ( often a big extended family as well ) so dont need to worry about getting the car stolen or damaged as nobody would dare.
They also dont need to move to a better area, as they are the ones who make their estate such a dangerous hole for other people.
You cant always tell from appearances though - my parents live in a very expensive house in a pretty exclusive village, and if you looked on the drive you would see my mums old Corsa and a modest mid range 4 year old Golf - not because thats all they can afford but because for daily driving they arent bothered about having flash cars ( and the weekend toy is safely out of site in the garage ! ).
They also dont need to move to a better area, as they are the ones who make their estate such a dangerous hole for other people.
You cant always tell from appearances though - my parents live in a very expensive house in a pretty exclusive village, and if you looked on the drive you would see my mums old Corsa and a modest mid range 4 year old Golf - not because thats all they can afford but because for daily driving they arent bothered about having flash cars ( and the weekend toy is safely out of site in the garage ! ).
09 July 2009, 05:43 PM
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Excluding lottery winners, genuine hard working people and all bonifide legal ways of earning money, the rest are chavs & other scum involved in organised crime, to fill up there personal money vault whereever that maybe at.I bet all the paperwork "seems" in order too.
09 July 2009, 05:52 PM
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the other thing here is i'm not generalising on council houses. Anyone I was 'looking down on' i'm talking about the roughest of the rough estates around here with boarded up houses and burnt out/smashed up cars who seem to have lots of cash and NOT just anyone who lives on a council estate, a big difference in my book. Some of the council houses around here are done beautifully with their gardens etc and the owners, a lot of them elderly, have every right to be proud of their house.In fact Mike has answered my question there and is probably spot on with the ones with the money in the really rough areas are more than likely the ones that control what goes on on those estates and quite happy with their lifestyle.
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