dub Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 In the run up to the 2015 general election, a war is going on for the right to live in London. Rapid gentrification – praised as "regeneration" by local councils and property developers, derided as "social cleansing" by critics – is breaking up established communities. In some cases, families who've lived in London for generations are left homeless; in others, they are forced to move across the city or out of it completely. Meanwhile, the real estate opportunities are making lots of people – many of whom do not actually live in London – very rich. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest babatundestacks Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 Living in london isnt as hard as peoplw think. If you look you will find 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshie Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 Living in london isnt as hard as peoplw think. If you look you will find Good advice! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afroman Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 It's all immigrants fault vote ukip 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thun Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 It's all immigrants fault vote ukip It's actually rich foreigners who buy property to rent out at extortionate rates or leave them sitting empty most of the year It makes hard working Londoners impossible to own a property even if on 80,000 a year 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dub Posted April 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 foreigners, not immigrants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elementalism Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 London is overrated. Cop two yards in Brum for the price you'd get get a flat in London. Not sure why people are so gassed (OK, I can think of reasons) - but Britain needs a bit of a shake up. Not enough pull factors for me, nuff friends live there but as long as I'm along the M40 I'm nice to hit London in an hour. Don't let this new rail system gas you into thinking you're onto some certi investment. Those sort of investments belong the the generation before ours. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dub Posted April 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 it is overrated, but its still ahead of the other cities enough for many people not to want to settle truth be told, I haven't tried Manchester yet, but there's definitely enough about London to make me want to sacrifice the idea of living comfortable in Birmingham or Bristol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuri Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 What major city iant this the case in thoigh? Find me a young person who can afford a house in NYC, or Paris etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Reds Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 Out of towners come around, they getting juugged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
time_bomb Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 would rather leave the country than live in brum 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underwriter Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 would rather leave the country than live in brum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supermalt Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 would rather leave the country than live in brum or manny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dom dom bullets Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 would rather leave the country than live in brum di real Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badman Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 would rather leave the country than live in brum di real Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VENOM Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 What major city iant this the case in thoigh? Find me a young person who can afford a house in NYC, or Paris etc But rent is not as bad. I don't know about Paris but my friends in NY in Brooklyn that's quite expensive nowadays rent for about £600/m and have much bigger properties. And.im talking about one beds not shared. You can't also compare london and NY or Paris cos Paris itself is very small..its like zone 1and 2 of london... And America isn't just about New York there's plenty of viable social mobility. All of America isn't rushing to work and live in New York. The uk may be small compared to France or US but there's plenty of viable land to build on..which isn't happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niall Ferguson Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 Look the poor shouldn't be given free housing in central London If the apsirng middle classes can't afford it Why should the feckless undeeclas be given free flats Agreed. The problem is however, that if the poor don't live there, it's unlikely that the aspiring middle class will too. The properties will just be wholly commercial. I'd rather poor + rich than just rich tbh. I do agree with the sentiment though - meritocratic based living arrangements. / I flipping hate the socket that presented this btw AND trust that faggot Dub to post a Vice doc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yung bawse Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 What major city iant this the case in thoigh? Find me a young person who can afford a house in NYC, or Paris etc All of America isn't rushing to work and live in New York.. All of the uk isn't rushing to work and live in London either but more time people born in London are soo far up their own ass that they think that's the case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dub Posted April 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 I've heard NYC is as bad as London for housing. San Francisco was looking as bad as London when I looked as well. Saying that, I don't think the rooms were as ridiculously small as what's offered in London for the same price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Planet Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 Look the poor shouldn't be given free housing in central London If the apsirng middle classes can't afford it Why should the feckless undeeclas be given free flats Agreed. The problem is however, that if the poor don't live there, it's unlikely that the aspiring middle class will too. The properties will just be wholly commercial. What do you mean by wholly commercial? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mame Biram Diouf Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 Look the poor shouldn't be given free housing in central London If the apsirng middle classes can't afford it Why should the feckless undeeclas be given free flats Agreed. The problem is however, that if the poor don't live there, it's unlikely that the aspiring middle class will too. The properties will just be wholly commercial.What do you mean by wholly commercial? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8BALL Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 He probably means non-residential. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dub Posted April 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 Does anyone know why many of these new places are offered to the Chinese first? Where is the sense in it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Planet Posted April 7, 2015 Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 Pre selling units makes it cheaper to fund with finance. Sell them before anything goes in the ground and you get more favourable debt terms and leverage less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dub Posted April 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2015 and British people aren't prepared to offer that investment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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