Is overcrowding to blame for high house prices?

IveSeenTheLight

C_Mababejive wrote: »

The days of holocaust will come when men will kill eachother in massive numbers for the scarce space,food and water available on the planet. Its already happening now but on a smaller scale.

I heard a story the other day of a story in Egypt where people were fighting each other just to squeeze onto a bus to go home for the weekend.
As one was pulled off the bus, another tried to squeeze on and the mass fight on the main ring road ensued.

Of course, it's nature for man to look after himself and his family and I'm sure if the Mad Max days were to come to fruition, we would see man kill each other for survival.

Of course to a lesser extent, that mother nature gene that ensures that man looks after his family is there for all to see.
It's what drive most people to succeed and prevail despite others failures.

It's in us all to defend, look after and provide for our famailies to the best of our abilities , so lets not chastise people for doing so.

IveSeenTheLight

jamesmorgan wrote: »

I agree most people use the term 'real terms' to compare with RPI (or CPI). In practice it is attempt to measure affordability of an item and as such is usually better measured against wage inflation.

I would agree in this scenario that you are measuring "real term affordability", but not house price real term value dropipng 75%as per the initial topic of conversation.

C_Mababejive

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

I heard a story the other day of a story in Egypt where people were fighting each other just to squeeze onto a bus to go home for the weekend.
As one was pulled off the bus, another tried to squeeze on and the mass fight on the main ring road ensued.

Of course, it's nature for man to look after himself and his family and I'm sure if the Mad Max days were to come to fruition, we would see man kill each other for survival.

Of course to a lesser extent, that mother nature gene that ensures that man looks after his family is there for all to see.
It's what drive most people to succeed and prevail despite others failures.

It's in us all to defend, look after and provide for our famailies to the best of our abilities , so lets not chastise people for doing so.

Indeed..we already kill our fellow man to ensure that we have the best to live on. We allow thousands to die in African and asia,to keep them in subjugation and stifle their development simply because if they did develop,they would swallow resources and compete with us. It is only charities who try to keep them alive and Governments making token gestures to cover up their real agenda. Mans biggest enemy is himself...