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  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    As I posted earlier "Council houses do become vacant, people get LHA, people who can afford to move out and commute like I did and people will stay living in crowded accommodation."
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »
    There's enough green land in Surrey to satisfy the local housing need for at least 1,000 years. Running out of land is hardly a contemporary issue, is it?

    Cant see it myself, plus who wants to live surrounded by tower blocks and everybody rammed into one area.

    Lets get rid of the countryside and build housing estates on it.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Jimmy_31 wrote: »
    A 25 minute car journey or 35 minute bus journey. not really the end of the world is it.

    No bus £210 a month on train quite a chunk of their £1000 take home pay.
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »
    So you accept that we need to build more social housing?

    No we wouldnt need to build more if the current situation was stopped.

    Its not really working is it, people leaving school and starting a family and not even having their first job lined up never mind a house.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »
    There's enough green land in Surrey to satisfy the local housing need for at least 1,000 years. Running out of land is hardly a contemporary issue, is it?
    Why spoil Surrey, it would be simpler and better for the country to just discourage those that cannot support themselves to stop having more kids.
  • Wee_Willy_Harris
    Wee_Willy_Harris Posts: 7,512 Forumite
    Jimmy_31 wrote: »
    Cant see it myself, plus who wants to live surrounded by tower blocks and everybody rammed into one area.

    Lets get rid of the countryside and build housing estates on it.

    Still plenty of room though.

    Surrey population density = 667 per sq km
    Monaco population density = 16,923 per sq km
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    As I posted earlier "Council houses do become vacant, people get LHA, people who can afford to move out and commute like I did and people will stay living in crowded accommodation."

    And as i stated before the population is constantly increasing, and while we are at it were are all these thousands of children going to end up working because there is not an infinite amount of jobs in this country.
  • Wee_Willy_Harris
    Wee_Willy_Harris Posts: 7,512 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Why spoil Surrey, it would be simpler and better for the country to just discourage those that cannot support themselves to stop having more kids.

    Sounds like a NIMBY argument.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »
    Still plenty of room though.

    Surrey population density = 667 per sq km
    Monaco population density = 16,923 per sq km

    Do you live in Surrey
  • Jimmy_31
    Jimmy_31 Posts: 2,170 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    No bus £210 a month on train quite a chunk of their £1000 take home pay.

    Bicycle.
    or is that to much effort.
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