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So you're not a property snob, but you are a TV snob eh?! I remember an advert from maybe 15 years ago about a couple selling up to go abroad, cutting from the

So you're not a property snob, but you are a TV snob eh?! I remember an advert from maybe 15 years ago about a couple selling up to go abroad, cutting from the couple's brilliant new life to their snarky friends at a dinner party, one person saying 'where have they gone' with another responding 'straight to the bottom of the property ladder'. I guess the agency behind it must have thought it would be a familiar concept back then, and the property market has got even worse in the meantime. Middle class Britain can be a competitive place, no? Also I think The Good Life satirised this type of outlook even further back.

GordonS 8y ago
My Channel 5 comment was meant to be in jest. I didn't see it, but I'm not sure the point of the scene you mention was 'property snobbery'; it sounds like it was perhaps a dig at those people with a chip on their shoulder who hate when others have something they don't and will grasp at any pathetic attempt to mock them.
- growlist 8y ago
  Back to your original query. Its easy to find sources that mesh with my choice of words. 'Renting carries a stigma. "There is a social expectation to own a house at a certain point. You're made to feel like a second-class citizen if you rent."' 'But in the UK it can feel like a second-class system. There are limited protections' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22952667 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22952667 And the ad would have no poignancy unless there were something recognisable about there being status attached to property, would it? Anyway I think you are being deliberately obtuse or picking up on my choice of words whilst ignoring the main point, which is that property ownership is a critical differentiating element in life chances in the UK, and with that I bid you adieu.
  - GordonS 8y ago
    > Anyway I think you are being deliberately obtuse I was absolutely not. I am however, also very much done here.

GordonS 8y ago

My Channel 5 comment was meant to be in jest. I didn't see it, but I'm not sure the point of the scene you mention was 'property snobbery'; it sounds like it was perhaps a dig at those people with a chip on their shoulder who hate when others have something they don't and will grasp at any pathetic attempt to mock them.

growlist 8y ago
Back to your original query. Its easy to find sources that mesh with my choice of words. 'Renting carries a stigma. "There is a social expectation to own a house at a certain point. You're made to feel like a second-class citizen if you rent."' 'But in the UK it can feel like a second-class system. There are limited protections' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22952667 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22952667 And the ad would have no poignancy unless there were something recognisable about there being status attached to property, would it? Anyway I think you are being deliberately obtuse or picking up on my choice of words whilst ignoring the main point, which is that property ownership is a critical differentiating element in life chances in the UK, and with that I bid you adieu.
- GordonS 8y ago
  > Anyway I think you are being deliberately obtuse I was absolutely not. I am however, also very much done here.