Watch: 'Why You'll Never Own a House'

Home ownership: Aspiration, necessity, chimera. Wherever you lie on the spectrum—and I as a London-dweller know exactly which side of my chimera bread is buttered—here’s a funny little video from the guys at now-otherwise-shell-of-its-former-self Cracked covering the trials that await those people who do actually make it to the opening stages of the mythic process known as ‘buying a house’: