Some People Still Think This Will Be All Over In A Few Years!!!

Masomnia

treliac wrote: »

Agree with most of your post but I don't want people to suffer who bought in all innocence - those genuine buyers who worked and saved their butts off in order to buy their own home - and were manipulated into a sickening trap!

Couldn't agree more with you. Hopefully those people should be ok as they bought their house as a home, not as an investment, and plan to stay indefinitely. Short/medium term drops won't affect them too much hopefully.

robpw2

aboard but abroad will be fine too

Darth_Marty

Whilst I am fully aware that "realism" is good, what makes you Geoff, so well informed that you are so certain of what will happen?

I could say I am so sure that within 5 years we will be back to 2007 prices and that this is indeed a blip, I could say it with all of the optimism and hope that is mirrored with your bitterness and negativity, but that wouldnt make what i say right. Just like what you say isnt right. It is merely one of a myriad of possibilities.

I dont think ive read a more negative poster in any forum ever, you really are a barrel full of laughs mate.

dad-of-4

geoffky wrote: »

carolt i reckon we will have at least two years of job losses and the four day week will enter the arena at some stage.
where the take up of new jobs starts and in what industry god only knows and all the crap stuff that people have believed makes thier life better is being built elsewere so i think alot of these jobs that are being lost will never return.. not what we want to hear but i just do not see where future job gains are going to come from unless they mange to pull off the great escape and find oil and gold in slough...

as a nation were so reliant on consumerism, it almost makes us expendable if we cant buy from the world, were not actualy that much use to the world, sad to say, but prety much true.

i honestly think we will need to become a migrant workforce to dig our selves out of this, prety much like many of the eastern europe countries have had to do.

mewbie_2

Darth_Marty wrote: »

Whilst I am fully aware that "realism" is good, what makes you Geoff, so well informed that you are so certain of what will happen?

I dont think ive read a more negative poster in any forum ever, you really are a barrel full of laughs mate.

Geoff is one of our more balanced moderates.

Darth_Marty

mewbie wrote: »

Geoff is one of our more balanced moderates.

:D:D:D ha ha ha ha I didnt realise i was in the comedy thread!!

fc123

treliac wrote: »

If we're to climb out of this mire, we need to come up with something of value to trade with the rest of the world.

I'm working on that...start supplying Bahrain in Spring.

geoffky

Darth_Marty wrote: »

Whilst I am fully aware that "realism" is good, what makes you Geoff, so well informed that you are so certain of what will happen?

I could say I am so sure that within 5 years we will be back to 2007 prices and that this is indeed a blip, I could say it with all of the optimism and hope that is mirrored with your bitterness and negativity, but that wouldnt make what i say right. Just like what you say isnt right. It is merely one of a myriad of possibilities.

I dont think ive read a more negative poster in any forum ever, you really are a barrel full of laughs mate.

well if i am wrong it will cost me lots of money.. so in your world what do you think is going to happen?
no bitterness from me i am protected from all of it unless the whole of society falls apart.
some people get uncomfortable with reality so here you go m8
biggest boom in history is going to followed by the shortest bust
levels of personal debt has not overshot our gdp £1.33trillion and we are all going to pay it back next year.
house prices are going to stop falling from the fastest rate ever
European shares bounce back from the biggest fall ever
shops regain from biggest fall ever
everyone is going to be able to buy a car next year
and father xmas is real.....
get real.....

Really2

geoffky wrote: »

well if i am wrong it will cost me lots of money.. so in your world what do you think is going to happen?
no bitterness from me i am protected from all of it unless the whole of society falls apart.
some people get uncomfortable with reality so here you go m8
biggest boom in history is going to followed by the shortest bust
levels of personal debt has not overshot our gdp £1.33trillion and we are all going to pay it back next year.
house prices are going to stop falling from the fastest rate ever
European shares bounce back from the biggest fall ever
shops regain from biggest fall ever
everyone is going to be able to buy a car next year
and father xmas is real.....
get real.....

But Geoff what happend last time as put you in a better posission this time.
But why you would be any better at seeing the future this time round is beyond me.
Last time you got it wrong so this time you are bound to think it is going to be worse as it was so bad for you last time. (also you are prepared for the worst so you kind of want it otherwise your preperation may have not been partialy wasted, although sensible)

The vast majority will still get through virtualy unscathed. Unfortunatly we don't know who.

miamidice

The reality is no-one and I mean NO-ONE has an effing clue what the hell is going to happen. Even the most well-educated, experienced and intellectual economists and analysts are predicting things which turn out to be way off mark on a daily basis through this difficult period.

How much worse/better is it going to get and when? You're guess isn't worth the IQ it's thought out of - just the same as mine.