I promise you, you’ll be even more infuriated when you see the price it was bought for in 2003.

Infuriating but the only way one could have protected themselves from gentrification was for our parents to purchase their property back in the day. https://twitter.com/brickzwithtipz/status/1296074989876076544

Some of our parents had the foresight as well as the capacity to buy their yards in zone 1 & 2. Others weren’t so fortunate or privileged. Many of our parents were 1st gen immigrants and trying to survive and give their kids a better foundation to excel in England than they had.

So when I see some of the language used to discuss and describe their parents for “lacking” and not taking advantage of the prices back then...I can’t help but feel irked.

A lot of OUR behaviours fucked over our parents BTW. Because us as the young gen were getting into fuck shit and in a bid to keep us safe and out of trouble, some of our parents moved many of us and the families away. Selling in zone 1/2 & leaving behind their potential fortunes.