"Orchid XP v3" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>> I fail to see how getting a place of my own is going to help in any
>>> way, shape or form.
>>
>> Grown up women in the UK generally don't mind that their potential 
>> boyfriend live with his mother?
>
> Well, I'm 27, she's 25, not sure if that qualifies as "grown up".

Eh???

Are you sure if the Sun qualifies as "bright", or if the Atlantic Ocean 
qualifies as "deep"??  Helloo??!!  Yes Andrew, twenty-five is VERY grown up. 
Childhood and teenage are far gone for both of you.  Even she finished high 
school eight years ago, and could easily have taken a different path and 
have her own children by now.

Sometimes, you say things that are so gauche, they're unintentionally funny 
and child-like.  Unfortunately, that's because you've experienced nothing of 
the adult's world, and that's because you 're still at home, in your 
bedroom, being cared for by Mum.

>>> (Never mind the minor detail that I already know
>>> I can't afford it...)
>>
>> I'm curious. How can that be, when you have a job? Do you have some huge 
>> expenses or do you only work part-time or something?
>
> Housing prices in the UK are currently astronomical. (But don't worry; the 
> prices are going to start going down any minute now... OK, maybe in a 
> minute or two... no, really, they can't just keep rising forever...)
>

Yes, buying is getting hard and harder.  I agree totally.  But that doesn't 
justify a strategy of "give up".  What happened to the job replacement 
search?  That story's gone quiet for a while.

You've got to do *something*!  Rent a room, live in a caravan, live in a 
tent, live in a hostel, share accomodation.  If you carry on with the "do 
nothing" option as it seems now, soon you will be 30 and still under Mum's 
care.  People will think you are one of those mentally retarded kids who 
HAVE TO be cared for by their parents after they're adults.

And doesn't your Mum deserve a break?  She's been a parent for a long time 
and surely while she's still young enough to enjoy it, she would like some 
of her old free life back that she used to have before the first baby came 
along...

-- 
Brian

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