How is £5k anywhere near enough for a deposit? I suspect prices in Aberdeen may be higher but that much higher?
I'm more or less in the same boat. I spunk money away on rent (someone else' mortgage) every month and pay the mental petrol prices that everyone has to pay and it doesn't leave me with a lot to save. In fact very little.
When you're younger you're telt to leave school and go into higher education because it'll help you get a job. I was in education for 5 years after leaving school (working part time through out) and aye it got me a job. I've never struggled for a job (and for that in itself I'm grateful having seen others equally or better educated than myself struggle) but the facts are that A, you need more of a deposit than you've ever needed before to get on the property ladder and B, even if you have a deposit it's more difficult than it's ever been to secure funding and you can bet your bottom dollar that those that do manage to get a mortgage pay more for it than ever before too. I'm not saying (and never have) that it was ever easy. I'm not saying older generations didn't have to work hard. No one is suggesting that but it was a lot more doable back then. Certainly according to many of the older people I've discussed this with.
Folk have a chip on their shoulder about young folk "moaning" and 99 times out of a 100 I'd agree. Young folk tend to be fucking knobs. But then so do most older folk. Facts are facts. It's a shite time to be trying to get on the property ladder and FFS fuck sake I reserve the right to fucking moan about it. Right?