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News articles about people asking things like "I have £1 million in savings and a £1 million pension pot. I own my 7 bedroom mansion outright with no mortgage and I own three other properties that I rent out. Can I afford to retire?"

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

More like “My dad gave me everything I have including my false sense of accomplishment. Can I afford to stop pretending I am a contributing member of society and just go back to what I do best? Spending someone else’s money on things that I can claim make me successful.”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

I’m so sick of hearing about rich people problems.

Want to make retiring easier, have we considered NOT making housing a luxury for the rich? Why should anyone care about property values when raising property values just destroys the quality of life?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't know, they sound too paranoid to retire. Maybe they should give away the three other properties to someone else...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I'll gladly take one. Really, we need laws against hoarding homes, or at least a huge tax on multiple properties. But this will never happen because politicians and royals make money from hoarding homes. Prince William is a landlord, IIRC he owns around 600 rental properties and his tenants have been complaining that the homes are damp, mouldy and nobody ever fixes the problems.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

A person should not be able to have more than one place to live in. Like, you cannot physically be in two apartments at the same time. It's that simple.

And the royals were always shit, of course they don't take care of the rentals they have. Too busy being royal to do such a "pedestrian" thing. Fucking hate it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Come now, not a single tourist would visit TERF island is there were no royalty. Wouldn't want to be like that tourist repulsing hellhole, France, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

This is ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

His dad had a similar problem.