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Last month two colleagues (less than 30yr old) bought their own houses. There are young people in the UK who can afford it. They saved for years...


Means nothing without quantifying income and location.

Since you're on HN I'm assuming you and your colleagues are SWEs, which is already painting a poor picture since SWEs often have a well above average income.


It's London. Colleagues do have slightly above average salary but nothing extraordinary.


So ~50k then? They must have been saving a lot to afford a place in London.




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