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| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: paulca on July 17, 2020, 05:33:49 pm --- --- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 17, 2020, 05:20:25 pm ---Doesn't population growth factor into it? There is only so much land... --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- Everything's the Boomer's fault, huh? :) Edit: I didn't watch the 47min vid, but that vid title is provocative enough. Esp when posed as a question. |
| paulca:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on July 17, 2020, 05:36:50 pm ---Edit: I didn't watch the 47min vid, but that vid title is provocative enough. Esp when posed as a question. --- End quote --- It's the Royal Institute Lecturers. Done in the same very lecturer theatre as people like Faraday gave their lecturers. I believe that desk IS the SAME desk. And, "fault", no sure, but they have a momentum in society that allows them to pull society with them and continue to favour them. |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: coppice on July 17, 2020, 05:28:20 pm --- --- 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. --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- I remember paying 18% interest on the mortgage... yes, houses were cheaper, but... |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on July 17, 2020, 11:18:04 am --- --- Quote ---We all have the choice of living in a more modest place --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- I think what it comes down to is there are just way too many people. I've watched the population in the area where I live explode throughout my lifetime and tens of thousands more people keep pouring in all the time, I don't even know where they're all coming from. There are far more people than there are nice locations where people want to live, as long as that's the case there will be housing shortages and people priced out of the market. We can't build our way out of this either, the more housing they build and the more affordable they make it, the more people flood in to fill it. It's like where they widen the roads over and over adding lanes and traffic never gets better. |
| james_s:
--- 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. --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- Yes, Covid is kind of inescapable and all-encompassing right now, it is affecting all of us and is essentially impossible to avoid. It's nice to have a place to discuss things related to it and I think for the most part things have remained very civil. On the same note, I completely agree that it should be contained to ONE thread. It has already permeated all parts of day to day life, I don't want it to permeate all parts of every forum I'm on too. |
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