Panorama tonight: The Great House Price Bubble?

Graham_Devon

michaels wrote: »

So you don't have similar age kids that you bathe in the same water / when you were a child you never shared the bath water with a similarly aged sibling? May be you only bathed once a week so there was less environmental consequence of each using their own 300l of water?

I took it that you were saying you shared the bathwater throughout the family, something that's a step too far for me too currently. Sure, if we were in abject poverty, fine, we probably would. But under all other circumstances I wouldn't really want to share bathwater with other adults out of choice to save a few pence.

I think most bath 2 younger kids together.

Road_Hog

ILW wrote: »

How do teh french manage to build 3 or 4 times as many houses pa as the British?

They don't seem to be concreting over all their farmland and villages.

They have the same sort of size population as we do, but they have a country three times the size of ours.

They bus all their immigrants to Calais and then pay their ferry fare to Dover.

michaels

ILW wrote: »

Compared to heating, it is a tiny proportion.

To be honest I believe you but why do the media go on about the pressure on 'water resources' in the SE and all that 'turn the tap off when brushing your teeth', 'put a brick in the toilet cistern' stuff?

ILW

michaels wrote: »

To be honest I believe you but why do the media go on about the pressure on 'water resources' in the SE and all that 'turn the tap off when brushing your teeth', 'put a brick in the toilet cistern' stuff?

It is a delivery and storage issue rather than environmental.

cells

Road_Hog wrote: »

They have the same sort of size population as we do, but they have a country three times the size of ours.

They bus all their immigrants to Calais and then pay their ferry fare to Dover.

Scotland is larger on a per capita basis so why don't Scotland build more than France on a per capita basis?

Scotland builds virtually the same as England on a per head basis even with 6-7x as much land.

What that shows is that land mass is irrelevant its government policy


Also France has lots of immigrants I recall reading an article saying they had the most in Europe which presumably mens more than the uk too.

Also France and the uk have groqn by virtually the same population over the last decade although UK is projected to add nore over the next decade than France.


So france has immigrants france is growing by almost tje same population uet it is building 3x as many homes.

mayonnaise

ILW wrote: »

It is a delivery and storage issue rather than environmental.

Yep, there is no pressure on water resources, to claim there is in a country with a climate like ours is laughable.
However there is a chronic underinvestment in storage and distribution.

dktreesea

cynicalgit wrote: »

As night follows day bust follows boom.

True, but bust doesn't need to mean the absolute value of houses fall, just their real value. That has already happened in the UK. They buying power of the pound vis a vis the UD dollar and the Euro has dropped by USD.40 to the pound and Euro$0.20 to the pound since 2008. Given that most the things we import are priced in USD, that has not just meant a rise in our cost of living, but also a real fall in the value of assets in Britain.

You could have a situation where the price of your house rose, from say, £200k to £210k over the course of the recession, but in terms of global buying power, the real value of the £210k is way below what it was when you bought the house.

Road_Hog

cells wrote: »

Scotland is larger on a per capita basis so why don't Scotland build more than France on a per capita basis?

'cause they're !!!!!!! lazy barstewards who spend most of their time drinking and eating deep fried Mars Bars.

Apologies to all Gers supporters, who are exmept from the above comments.

dktreesea

mayonnaise wrote: »

Yep, there is no pressure on water resources, to claim there is in a country with a climate like ours is laughable.
However there is a chronic underinvestment in storage and distribution.

Isn't there pressure on water resources in certain parts of the UK, like the SE of England? That part of the UK seems to suffer from drought every now and then. The media mentions how the underground water in aquifers isn't being replenished as quickly as we are going through it.

Loughton_Monkey

Graham_Devon wrote: »

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Interesting to see people make up their minds on the programme before they have even watched it!

It will likely have extremes in it, yes. But hopefully there will be some middle, more common, ground which is can create an evaluation on.

I will watch it before commenting upon content. That makes just as much sense as reading people's posts before replying with vilification for what the person didn't say!

Slightly off topic, but I do hope the language in it remains respectable. I find that Panorama uses language so vile and so unacceptable that even MSE edits it out!

I cannot quote that word, nor any smart variations of it because it will get through the computerised edit, but will then be manually edited out.

What is the word? I'm not going to say, but search this particular page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012m01y