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So if cheap houses are so good for the economy....
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: ».....why are ministers being urged to "abandon Northern cities" which have some of the cheapest land and house prices in the UK?
Surely the North of England should be booming by now?
And Detroit should be the boomiest city in America?
Just sayin....:D
You can have cheap houses becuase they are plentiful and you can have cheap houses beauce there is no activity in the area leading tonpeople leaving
This is actually wjat happened in London decades ago.
The population fell from over 8 million to around 6 million whole additional units were added. As such by 1990 London was cheap as otbhad the most homes per capita than the other regions
This has of course reversed since then with london adding two million people and building the least homes of all the other regions
So what was better for a family
London in 1990 when you could buy a house
Or
London today where you can't. Owner occupation is now below 50% in London
You should know better mr hamish0 -
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Loughton_Monkey wrote: »pjt tthyt inn yr pjpe nd smopke it Hamish!
Loughton old boy, I had no idea you were now the proud owner of an ipad.
Well done.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Loughton old boy, I had no idea you were now the proud owner of an ipad.
Well done.
No choice, I'm afraid. Incontinence!
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Omigod - I just ordered a pad from Amazon, and I have to wait until the end of next week for delivery. I ordered the cheapest pad I could find because I want to be able to read the paper at 6am instead of listening to the !!!!! on radio 4 (sorry, Michelle Hussein - I wish you well, and I would like you to be my wife). I guess I now have to buy the paper version so that I can clean up after myself.Loughton_Monkey wrote: »No choice, I'm afraid. Incontinence!
TruckerTAccording to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.0 -
Omigod - I just ordered a pad from Amazon, and I have to wait until the end of next week for delivery. I ordered the cheapest pad I could find because I want to be able to read the paper at 6am instead of listening to the !!!!! on radio 4 (sorry, Michelle Hussein - I wish you well, and I would like you to be my wife). I guess I now have to buy the paper version so that I can clean up after myself.
A scrunched up copy of the Daily Mail works just as well. Don't try the Guardian, though, it's not particularly absorbing.0
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