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Ed.Kloonk:

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 In this city /..
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Which city, mate?

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: nctnico on July 17, 2020, 03:50:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 17, 2020, 11:18:04 am ---
--- Quote ---We all have the choice of living in a more modest place
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Really? When there is a housing shortage it's just a game of musical chairs where those with money get a seat and those without being fucked. The reason there aren't more people on the street is because of couch surfing and living with parents. Plus even if you can afford a place to live, if that's soaking up the majority of your income then you're basically living in poverty.

'What the market is willing to pay' is inappropriate here. You could say the same about food, and sure enough if you're skint you can buy ridiculously cheap frozen ready-meals.

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I fully agree. Too expensive housing is killing any chance for young people to have a decent place to live. Currently there is a movement going towards 'tiny houses'. Oh so cute but realistically it is just poverty with a thin layer of chrome on top to make it shiny.

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Doesn't population growth factor into it?  There is only so much land...

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 17, 2020, 03:49:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on July 17, 2020, 12:15:31 pm ---As Dave said to someone else, before locking them out...

EEVBLOG
Please STOP posting Covid threads on this forum.
Locked.

Unless of course it is HIS thread, with over 87000 views
and nearly 2000 replies.

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It's one things contained to one thread, and another to have people like you starting new covid and other off-topic threads all the time. Just stop it.
I deleted your latest covid thread.

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Whilst I appreciate the full-time job of maintaining the forum to a certain degree, we need to realise that covid is all that is happening from a news standpoint, so it's all that some want to talk about. We are bombarded by rubbish on TV and twittter.

I suggest going after these lying, fuckhead Journos on twitter. It's not Dave's fault for any of this. If you care that much, attack the problem at the source.

coppice:

--- Quote from: nctnico on July 17, 2020, 03:50:35 pm ---I fully agree. Too expensive housing is killing any chance for young people to have a decent place to live. Currently there is a movement going towards 'tiny houses'. Oh so cute but realistically it is just poverty with a thin layer of chrome on top to make it shiny.

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If you want house prices to come down get interest rates back up to where they were when housing was cheaper. Buying a house will always be financially painful. It was damned hard to buy a house in the 70s and 80s, when house prices were relatively low, but interest rates on a mortgage could be eye watering. If you reduce interest rates, house prices naturally rise until the eye watering readjusts to its old level. Only in places like Texas, where there is a lot more land than people, do you see long term lowish house prices. Even there things are now being distorted in places like Plano by companies fleeing California, who bring with them a bunch of people with a huge pile of cash from selling their overpriced homes in California.

paulca:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 17, 2020, 05:20:25 pm ---Doesn't population growth factor into it?  There is only so much land...

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It plays in a lot, but the largest generation (still) are the boomers.  The millennial generation was quite small.

It's to be expected that the largest generation would vote the way it wants the world to be.

Unfortunately that is not exactly what the future generations needs.

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