Nine years on, I still can’t buy a home

Monday 4th August 2008, 2:59PM BST.

From Karl Renouf.
I AM 25, have been employed ever since leaving school at 16, and still cannot afford to move out of the family home.

I’ve heard all about these first-time buyer houses being built and that things will be easier for younger people to move out, but I see nothing to this effect. This Island is fast becoming a laughing-stock, and I want out as quickly as I can.

Luckily for me, my grandparents were born in England after their parents were evacuated during the Occupation, so I don’t have that ridiculous stamp in the back of my passport which stops me working elsewhere in Europe.

Maybe States Members in charge of housing should take a severe pay cut and try living here. They have it easy. They get big wages and allowances.
8 Mont Pellé,
Tower Road,
St Helier.

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jerzy

August 5, 2008 at 10:13 am

I am a Jersey man and live abroad and worked day and night to buy my own property, I was 38
and had worked for 22 years before I could afford my own house, so what? you do not have some sort of right to own your own property, Stop winging and work a bit harder and one day, you may be able to get something.

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