18 November - Boring & Property

A party, in the City. Lush drinking is provided and canapes to exploding arteries level. There is entertainment, and a Bond theme. Yet, some colleagues are glued to a table and their martinis. Two late twenties colleagues who never have much to do with each other realise they're both from South Africa and go down the ‘I didn’t think you were South African!!!' (yeah like, the accent is so not noticeable). Then they progress to where from: 'Durban and you?' Something else I don't catch. And then on to the price of property as turns out she has purchased 2 flats about 2 years ago ('now everything has gone up') , he’s buying one and wow with the World Cup coming it will all go ballistic in terms of prices, rental yields and so on.

And there you have it. Property is the #1 boring subject the world over. I bet there’s a couple of people as I write now discussing the shack they’ve just bought in Cuzco or downtown Harare and how they plan to buy one more and rent it out etc etc.
And of course it starts early. Wonder what the exact age is… at 18 no thought of house market, then suddenly at 22? Bang, obsession or later at 24? Who knows? Clearly I was part of this circle of hell as I bought at 26 so must have been pondering it seriously from..... 25.
Thank god they have repeats of This Life so current 20somethings can see that sharing a house leads to interesting intercouplings and arguments, should they fail to make the deposit.