What will London be like in 10 years time?

THE_MASKED_TURNIP

London in 10 years time will be transformed for the better and this is just the beginning. In my dream I see zones 1 and 2 devoid of the renter classes as homeowners and foreign investors stamp down there monies and authority on owning these prime zones. Tower blocks of small luxury apartments could then be built over the brownfields and greenery on zones 3 and 4 to house the renter worker bees who provide and facilitate the goods and services to the homeowners off the inner zones. This would help us all clearly distinguish who is from which class of person.

calicocat

THE_MASKED_TURNIP wrote: »

London in 10 years time will be transformed for the better and this is just the beginning. In my dream I see zones 1 and 2 devoid of the renter classes as homeowners and foreign investors stamp down there monies and authority on owning these prime zones. Tower blocks of small luxury apartments could then be built over the brownfields and greenery on zones 3 and 4 to house the renter worker bees who provide and facilitate the goods and services to the homeowners off the inner zones. This would help us all clearly distinguish who is from which class of person.

I had to read that twice! Albeit it's late.

System

Something like Venice?

Road_Hog

Conrad wrote: »

We're entering an unprecedented era of prosperity,

No, we're not. The top few percent are doing very well, the avergae Joe on the street is suffering wage stagnation with crippling inflation. I know Mark Carney and co say that inflation is just over 2%, but anyone that has to pay an energy bill, shops for food or runs a car, will know that prices are going through the roof.

And no, I'n not some poor person who is bitter, like you I'm a LL.I just know that life isn't rosy for everybody. If you've got money, then you can make loads of money, but if you haven't then times are hard.

CLAPTON

Road_Hog wrote: »

No, we're not. The top few percent are doing very well, the avergae Joe on the street is suffering wage stagnation with crippling inflation. I know Mark Carney and co say that inflation is just over 2%, but anyone that has to pay an energy bill, shops for food or runs a car, will know that prices are going through the roof.

And no, I'n not some poor person who is bitter, like you I'm a LL.I just know that life isn't rosy for everybody. If you've got money, then you can make loads of money, but if you haven't then times are hard.

my records show I was paying 1.39 for petrol late October : yesterday I paid 1.29

dryhat

CLAPTON wrote: »

my records show I was paying 1.39 for petrol late October : yesterday I paid 1.29

You know how food manufacturers reduce the contents of packets but keep the price the same to hide the inflation?

Well guess what?
Petrol station operators do it as well. That litre of fuel you just bought was actually something like 0.97L

CLAPTON

dryhat wrote: »

You know how food manufacturers reduce the contents of packets but keep the price the same to hide the inflation?

Well guess what?
Petrol station operators do it as well. That litre of fuel you just bought was actually something like 0.97L

I also keep records of my miles per litre: probably they are shortening the miles too

Loughton_Monkey

CLAPTON wrote: »

I also keep records of my miles per litre: probably they are shortening the miles too

You cannot do miles per litre. You can only do kilometres per litre. Or miles per gallon. Otherwise, I am convinced you must be breaking some law of Brussels.

A further EEC Directive is being introduced that will make kilometres expand by a miniscule amount every year, while a mile gets shorter by an equivalent amount. Same for the gallon and the litre. By the year 2075 we will have complete European "Harmonisation" and the world will be a better place......

But ironically, by that time you won't be able to drive a car any more, or buy petrol.

AlexMac

If any of you have read 'The Book of Dave' by Will Self you'll recall that his future, post apocalypse London envisages a few primitive survivors scrabbling a living on the few bits left above the flood such as islands like 'Ham' (Hampstead),

Food's short so they paddle out annually to the rotting ' Stacks' (presumably the remains of Canary Wharf etc) to engage in the life-threatening task of culling rancid sea-birds (reminiscent of the ritual 'guga' hunting still conducted annually by the men of Ness in the outer Isles of Western Scotland)

This depressing vision (admittedly, maybe a little more than ten years down the line) is all the more likely because society is riven by cruelty based on divisions of class, gender and religion!

So nothing like the London of today, eh?

antrobus

AlexMac wrote: »

If any of you have read 'The Book of Dave' by Will Self you'll recall that his future, post apocalypse London envisages a few primitive survivors scrabbling a living on the few bits left above the flood such as islands like 'Ham' (Hampstead),....

No, but that's essentially the same idea as Ballard's The Drowned World (1962) or indeed Jeffries's After London (1885) for that matter.

Of course, you first need an apocalypse.:)