I am literally about to start earning £34,987 salary as a system engineer for one of the biggest energy providers in the world. I am 22, I am extremely lucky to be guaranteed a lucrative position after my apprenticeship. This is not the case for the majority of university students at the end of their course. Even with this extreme luck I still can’t afford to buy a very basic flat in the UK. The rental market is absolutely fucked. An 11 bedroom house share, not even in the centre of Bristol, is £800 a month. The average person can no longer afford average mortgage.