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Rightmove have put the kibosh on propertysnake

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  • thelawnet wrote: »
    How odd. Why should a new graduate living in say Greenwich be bitter that he could have bought a house for £65,000 in 1997, when median salaries were £16,000, but would now pay £245,000 in 2007, with median salaries at £22,500.

    He is obviously to blame for being born 10 years too late - clearly he is simply inferior. He should not be jealous or bitter in the slightest that ten years of property ramping has tripled the real cost of housing. The people that have profited from this are deserving of their spoils and having missed the boat being born in the wrong year he should just quietly sign up to 25 years of paying off a quarter of a million pounds for a 1-bedroom flat.

    Tripling property prices since 1997 can only be a good thing for society and anyone who expresses any doubt about this whatsoever is a fool. In fact, expressing any contrary opinion should be made illegal -- such as expressing the non-approved thought that tripled house prices makes it nearly impossible for young people to afford family homes, meaning that fewer children will be born, causing demographic problems and pension shortfalls.

    As tripling the cost of things is self-evidently wonderful, we should encourage it wherever we can - if we triple the price of all food, this will benefit farmers, and non-farmers will not be jealous at having missed the farming boat. We can also triple the cost of books - this will affect all the jealous people foolish enough not to have got an education yet, but it's their own fault for missing the boat. Just as it's obviously great to ramp up the cost of shelter/housing, ramping up the cost of food, education, etc. would all also be great for everybody! Hurrah. Somebody tell the Bank of England - forget 2% inflation targets, let's ramp it as high as we can, 20-30% on everything per year - it will make Britain a better place.




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    That is ACE

    You Can add all the staving kids -
    Tough Luck you were born in East Africa.
    If I have Offended you. Thats Great :j
    If I have Offended your Religion, Race, Sex, Country, Hair Cut and your taste in Biscuits.:mad:
    Now Thats Bargain:T
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