The Next Nail in the Coffin

chucknorris

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn wrote: »

I'll tell you.

You'd never conversed with Chuck before & you where immediately hostile.

Even without the benefit of hindsight I am amazed that I missed that pizza laddie (anchovypizza) was foxy, I really can't explain how I missed that, so I am now a bit more wary now of newcomers. This time (or should I say last time as he seems to have disappeared) he managed to stay sensible for far longer than his previous reincarnations.

Jack_Johnson_the_acorn

economic wrote: »

i suggest you do some proper research instead of selecting and making up things,

i have conversed with chuck before towards the end of last year when he advised me to keep my flat when i was thinking about selling - that was the first time i saw a post fro chuck.

i never boasted about my wealth. chuck asked me if i was poor and therefore didnt have anything better to do given i cant afford it. i simply answered his questions.

i dont care if my grammer isn't 100% in ths forum. its not a english grammer test. its just a forum. why does earning 100k got to do with grammer?

i sugest you check your facts before making silly accusations.

I haven't made any accusations, I've made observations.
Ok, sorry "boasted about" was meant to be "posted about".

I just expect someone on a high salary to have a better standard of spelling, grammar & punctuation. I'm not attacking you, it was just an assumption, possibly an incorrect one.

May I ask what sector you work in?

economic

i work in banking.

padington

economic wrote: »

i work in banking.

I've got to say, even I presumed you were someone like 'bubbles' in disguise. You've flip flopped on things like whether you will buy a house a little bit too quickly at times to seem like a 'normal' person.

mwpt

cells wrote: »

you are having your brain chemistry worked on by the hpc group think

Firstly and most importantly, house prices in half the country are about one third cheaper in real terms than they were ten years ago so stop talking like its a national think. So stop posting 'UK Housing Market' when what you mean is the London and to a lessor extend the SE housing market'

austerity was not caused by the bust. largesse was caused by the boom in financial services and capital management plus oil/gas output back in 2007 was a good deal higher. Neither can be blamed positively or negative to house prices they simply had nothing to do with house prices. or maybe you would like to explain how the uk oil output is linked to hose prices or how private equity managing assets in other parts of the world are linked to house prices?


Also you might need to look into a mirror to see what the cause of high house prices in London is. Are you not a foreigner who bought in London not long ago? You are more than welcome in my books to do that. But stop blaming landlords for high prices when its demand (you) concentrated mostly in London (you).

That is your view. My view is really quite simple. Were it not for QE, slashed rates and other measures, we would have experienced a larger property crash, even in London and prices would be lower today. But we've had that argument before, you pretty simply refuse to believe that interest rates have had a part in determining prices, so no point in rehashing.

cells

chucknorris wrote: »

Like I said, luck plays some part, but ultimately it is how you deal with the ups and downs that life deals you, but that is where your luck ends, and your true talent shines (or doesn't) and that decides how you do in life. I don't buy into it for one minute, that where you end up in life, just depends on luck.

even the way you think and act will be determined by chance. Think of the friends you had in school age 5-15 they would have shaped the person you become the way you act and feel and think. You didn't make a judgement age 5 which school you would go to or who would be in there with you in your class or even who was sat next to you.

Maybe there is an element of both. the road we take is mostly chance but what we do on that road is maybe more down to effort. I think for most people the road determines their lives not their effort or smarts (both of which too are impacted on the many roads you've walked down to that point).

Even roads you think you may have chosen or earned were a collection of roads of chance that got you to that place to choose or earn

westernpromise

economic wrote: »

ill be interested to know what your views are on the london property market in terms of where prices go from here and also in highgate (which i know you own a property in, as do i). thanks

Over a 10 year horizon I'd expect prices to be higher than today's with probably an episode within that span when they are lower. We're getting due for a routine correction.

cells

mwpt wrote: »

That is your view. My view is really quite simple. Were it not for QE, slashed rates and other measures, we would have experienced a larger property crash, even in London and prices would be lower today. But we've had that argument before, you pretty simply refuse to believe that interest rates have had a part in determining prices, so no point in rehashing.

Did they not QE or Slash rates or 'other measures' in stoke on trent? So why did prices not go up there or the half of the uk where prices are lower now than a decade ago??

The difference is you Mr MWPT you choose to come to the uk (glad to have you) you chose to come to London (double thanks) and you have bought a house in London (tipple thanks). You and the 100,000 like your good self who choose to make London their home are what's pushing up prices in London town. If you the other 100,000 a year who add to Londons population had come to live in stoke-on-trent or France or Germany or USA or anywhere else but London then London prices would be lower.

Keep blaming 'QE, slashed rates and other measures' for the boom in London prices but I think if you look into a mirror you will see the answer.....demand

chucknorris

cells wrote: »

even the way you think and act will be determined by chance. Think of the friends you had in school age 5-15 they would have shaped the person you become the way you act and feel and think. You didn't make a judgement age 5 which school you would go to or who would be in there with you in your class or even who was sat next to you.

Maybe there is an element of both. the road we take is mostly chance but what we do on that road is maybe more down to effort. I think for most people the road determines their lives not their effort or smarts (both of which too are impacted on the many roads you've walked down to that point).

Even roads you think you may have chosen or earned were a collection of roads of chance that got you to that place to choose or earn

If that is what you think, we are so different, we might as well come from different planets. I think that luck plays a part in our lives, but then how we decide to deal with what hand we have been dealt determines our future, but you seem to think that fate determines our future.

cells

chucknorris wrote: »

If that is what you think, we are so different, we might as well come from different planets. I think that luck plays a part in our lives, but then how we decide to deal with what hand we have been dealt determines our future, but you seem to think that fate determines our future.

yes I think its fair to say that I think fate/chance determines our future to a much larger extent than anything else.

I used to think more like yourself when I was younger. only now when I look back I remember many many times where a road taken differently would certainly have meant I was in a different place even a different person than what I am.


Edit: Actually fate is a wrong world as it means predetermined. I dont think events are predetermined I think everyone has a huge number of variations so much so that if you lived your life over a thousand times you would likely be in 1000 different places