how do people live

LegacyUser

Ive been looking into renting recently and like seriously how do people live - renting? Ive been living at home, paying my way at home, and its about time i leave the nest! I earn minimum wage and rent, bills, food is going to take all my wage. I have been trying to haggle rent prices down but noone is budging. I can't imagine what it is like for those who are struggling with unemployment, those with families, etc.

mobilecore

Thats why people share alot of the time.
Personally, I like my place to be my place. To be 100% mine or shared with a girlfriend.

Have you looked into sharing acc?

LegacyUser

mobilecore wrote: »

Thats why people share alot of the time.
Personally, I like my place to be my place. To be 100% mine or shared with a girlfriend.

Have you looked into sharing acc?

Hi, thanks for the reply.
Sharing is not an option for me. I've looked into it and there is nowhere nearby work for sharing accommadation. And I have noone to share with me so I'm all alone. Besides, I don't want to go renting with a stranger because god only knows what they would be like. Some family has brought enough problems being inconsiderate to those who have to be up in the morning and I want to move for peace and quite.

Currently i'm at home but I know one thing - I need to leave.

Another problem I'm faced with is that my accommadation is a good three miles away from work. I have no car and I won't be able to afford one. So I'm on foot walking everywhere. Walking at 7 o clock in the morning to work on a wet, and wintery morning - thats going to be a problem as well. I have looked into renting for the past year or so and there is nowhere closer to my work.

ash23

renter wrote: »

Hi, thanks for the reply.
Sharing is not an option for me. I've looked into it and there is nowhere nearby work for sharing accommadation. And I have noone to share with me so I'm all alone. Besides, I don't want to go renting with a stranger because god only knows what they would be like. Some family has brought enough problems being inconsiderate to those who have to be up in the morning and I want to move for peace and quite.

Currently i'm at home but I know one thing - I need to leave.

Another problem I'm faced with is that my accommadation is a good three miles away from work. I have no car and I won't be able to afford one. So I'm on foot walking everywhere. Walking at 7 o clock in the morning to work on a wet, and wintery morning - thats going to be a problem as well. I have looked into renting for the past year or so and there is nowhere closer to my work.

It depends on how badly you want to move out.

Look for the cheapest place you can find and sit down and do up a budget. You might not have 3 nights out a week, or a takeaway every weekend. You might have to scrimp and save but if you need to do it you will.

If you needed to move out you wouldn't be letting walking in winter put you off. Get a bike or a moped.

Don't know what area you're in but rent prices have dropped. As a single person you can rent a room. Again, sharing wouldn't put you off if you really wanted to move out of home.

I'm on a bit more than min wage but I have a child. I rent a house by myself, pay childcare, run a car and feed and clothe the two of us aswell as paying my bills etc......
It shouldn't be overly difficult for you if you really want to do it.

The Big Red Button

renter wrote: »

Hi, thanks for the reply.
Sharing is not an option for me. I've looked into it and there is nowhere nearby work for sharing accommadation. And I have noone to share with me so I'm all alone. Besides, I don't want to go renting with a stranger because god only knows what they would be like. Some family has brought enough problems being inconsiderate to those who have to be up in the morning and I want to move for peace and quite.

Currently i'm at home but I know one thing - I need to leave.

In my opinion you really need to give sharing more thought. There is little difference between the rent you'd pay on a one-bed and a two-bed apartment in a lot of places - meaning that you could end up almost halving your rent expense by sharing with just one person. If you're lucky enough to find somewhere with an en-suite or your own bathroom, even better. You will meet the person/people that you'll be sharing with before you move in, and you should be able to get a good idea of what they'd be like to live with. If they're party animals who'll be up making noise all night, then they won't be afraid to make that clear as they'll be looking for someone similar to live with. Find a place with 1-2 young professionals who also have to get up early in the mornings, and make it clear that you're looking for a quiet house etc. Seriously, at least go to view a few rooms in shared houses/apartments before you rule them out altogether.

By the way, I don't really get why you say there's nowhere near work with shared accommodation? Are there only one-bed apartments in the area and nothing else? Or is it just that there doesn't happen to be any shared accommodation advertised on Daft or whatever just at the moment? Seems a bit odd, that's all!

renter wrote: »

Another problem I'm faced with is that my accommadation is a good three miles away from work. I have no car and I won't be able to afford one. So I'm on foot walking everywhere. Walking at 7 o clock in the morning to work on a wet, and wintery morning - thats going to be a problem as well. I have looked into renting for the past year or so and there is nowhere closer to my work.

Is your family home all that much closer to work than these other places? Or is that a problem you have currently as well? Is there a possibility of getting a lift in the mornings with a colleague?

I, along with an awful lot of people, managed to survive college living off a lot less than minimum wage. You compromise, you live in a shared bedroom in a house with six other students with no heating; you realise that it actually is entirely possible to survive on a packet of Tesco Value pasta and nothing else for a week; you walk everywhere in the wind and rain with heavy bags because it would be incomprehendible to actually spend a euro on the bus ... you just deal with it, and enjoy it, because the negatives are outweighed by the positives. So how about you? You could afford a decent room in shared accommodation ... you've already pointed out the negatives of this, but do these outweigh the advantages of getting away from home? You're the only one who can actually decide that ...

OS119

renter wrote: »

Hi, thanks for the reply.
Sharing is not an option for me. I've looked into it and there is nowhere nearby work for sharing accommadation. And I have noone to share with me so I'm all alone. Besides, I don't want to go renting with a stranger because god only knows what they would be like.....

sorry mate, every other bugger - bar people with very rich daddies - has to house/flat share before they end up getting their own place.

whats so special about you?

there almost certainly are house/flat shares around you, you just haven't noticed them before. if there are people between the ages of 18 and 26 in your area there will be shared housing. the best bet for finding them is small ads in the local paper, shop/newsagent windows and webites like Gumtree - and you will, reasonably comfortably, be able to afford to house share in a minimum wage job

if you live in a hyper-rural area where there is literally nothing but farms - no villages or towns at all - then you have a problem, and the only way you'll get to leave home is to get a job in a town.

prinz

renter wrote: »

Ive been looking into renting recently and like seriously how do people live - renting? Ive been living at home, paying my way at home, and its about time i leave the nest! I earn minimum wage and rent, bills, food is going to take all my wage. I have been trying to haggle rent prices down but noone is budging. I can't imagine what it is like for those who are struggling with unemployment, those with families, etc.

You don't say what age you are OP. I am 25 and only managed to get my own place a few months ago, also on little more than the minimum wage. Prior to that I shared and saved. If you're late teens/early twenties then you just have to take it on the chin and suck it up

renter wrote: »

Hi, thanks for the reply.
Sharing is not an option for me. I've looked into it and there is nowhere nearby work for sharing accommadation...

I find that hard to believe if your work place is close to any sort of town.

renter wrote: »

And I have noone to share with me so I'm all alone. Besides, I don't want to go renting with a stranger because god only knows what they would be like..

Do you think everyone who shares knew their housemates before they moved in together or something? I think you need a reality check tbh. In my time in Dublin since 2006 I lived in 5 shared apartments/houses. Not one time did I know anyone in those places prior to moving in, and I am still friends with people I shared with going back to '06.

Like ash23 I have my own place, pay rent, bills all living expenses etc for myself and my OH (while she finishes a masters) on little more than minimum wage. The only way we can manage to have our own place now is due to years of sharing and saving.

LegacyUser

Why not get a second job - maybe part-time or somefink.

Acoshla

Go live with some strangers, it'll make that fabulous day when you no longer have to do it even better

Seriously though OP don't go living on your own for your first move out of home, go share with some people and see what it's like, the majority of the time it's a good laugh. Get a bike and get to work like that, I used to have a half hour walk to work at 6am in one of the houses I lived in, again, makes it all the more glorious the day you don't have to do it!

It's a great experience and even if it goes horribly wrong you can always move out, the only time I truly bailed on a place was when I rented a teeny room in the centre of the city, 3 weeks of leaf blowers, late night drunken sing songs outside and kegs being rolled into pubs at 7am and I was outta there, but hey it was an experience!

Don't mean to be harsh but......welcome to the real world. Wouldn't we all love to be able to afford a nice 2 bed flat for ourselves? The reality is either sharing with strangers or using your whole paycheck to pay for your own place (unless you have a decent salary). If you want to live on your own, then you have to make sacrifices. That is what the rest of us do. I'm 24 and have been house sharing since I was 18 including when I was on minimum wage and studying full time. I'd absolutely love to have a flat of my own but it's just not going to happen anytime soon. The best I can do is move in with the bf, into a one bed flat. The idea of owning a car is laughable right now. That's just life, unless you're very rich very young. I've houseshared with people who were professionals well into their thirties. You seem to need a bit of a reality check tbh.

I live alone and have done since May 2008. It's very pricey though, the only reason I manage to keep on my feet is that I'm pretty much a loner and I don't drive. I also can't save very much if anything. I did share from March 2007 to May 2008 but I hated it. Still, just because it didn't work for me it doesn't mean it won't work for you. You should give it a go at least.