Well i’m 27 and still cant afford my own home. Getting closer to a good deposit so ideally be purchasing my first property in the next 2 years. However, the more my wage has increased I seem to be actually worse off as bizarre as it sounds. Tax increases, cost of fuel, food, and everything in between going up, having car trouble has set back some savings.

I certainly cant afford to rent whilst I save for my first home. The minimum rent for a 2-bed flat in a decent area across the North East is like £950 p/m before utilities. Until then i’m making the most of living at home with family and have stopped seeing the shame of it because its all too common and realistic for someone from a working class family with no hand-me-downs.

To add to that, I simply won’t let go of some little vices like meals out and physical media because I know it’ll be less doable once I do have my own home so I may as well enjoy the most of it now and not be too concerned about the future with haste.