London Housing

[VENOM]

"LIVE AND WORK".... how come you only talk about the "and live" part?

[Yung bawse]

Because the people driving to London to work or even wanting to work there are the minority not the majority, which backs up my points, not yours

[Captain Planet]

 

Recently I've learnt that during the 90's and early 00's Asians would buy anything, especially the Pakistanis. They would spend like 110k of family money on a derelict warehouse to let out to illegal immigrants because they simply knew no better.

Fast forward today and they're holding developers to ransom with inflated asking prices on their land.

Cool story.

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This whole matter is being exaggerated anyway, it's getting boring.

Asians are rife for this still mate. Buy a house on your average mortgage, split it into multi occupancy. Rent each room out for 400 pm.

Its happening a lot

 

 

I'm talking about development land, not houses...

[Yung bawse]

Like I said in my first comment, a lot of born and raised Londoners are soo gassed that they actually think they're better than everyone else and everyone out of London wants to be there when that's not the case at all

And as a Londoner you're biased

[VENOM]

what is this minority? what is your claim based on?

 

have you based your claim on the people who travel equal distances to other parts of the uk? I am saying that a disproportionate amount of people within the uk are both migrating to live, and also as working economic migrants into london in comparison to any other part of the country, just as foreign landlords and property developers are buying up valuable land/property to revamp with little consideration to those who work AND live in london. 

 

do people travel from birmingham to work in Hull in large numbers daily? or from huddersfield to Shepley? or what minority are you talking about.

 

secondly, I am not even londoner so meh

[Captain Planet]

Has nothing to do with 'gassed'.

 

Has more to do with, economic hub, country's CBD, contribution of ~22% to the entire GDP of the country, economies of agglomeration, world class business infrastructure, amenities, attractions, scale and diversity.

 

This is why people go to London and capital cities in general.

 

This is why there are commuter hubs and satellite towns.

 

This is why Crossrail, HS1 and soon HS2 exist as expensive as they are.

 

Nothing to do with 'gassed'.

[Yung bawse]

What has travelling to other parts of the country got to do with anything, you said in response to yuri "all of America isn't rushing to work and live in New York" implying all of the uk is rushing to live and work in London and used packed trains to London as your reasoning, Iv also noticed in other posts that the general consensus for Londoners is that they think everyone would work/live in London if they could which isn't true at all, it's obviously the most attractive option for investment and foreigners the same with most capital cities.. Just because more people travel from out of London into London than travel out of london into other parts of the uk doesn't allow you to claim everyone's in a rush to work and live in london.. Like I said if you made a survey of how many people from the majors cities (excluding London) asking them if they would rather live in London I would put big money on the majority % saying no

[Supermalt]

Just because more people travel from out of London into London than travel out of london into other parts of the uk doesn't allow you to claim everyone's in a rush to work and live in london

Sky is blue?

No one wants to go podsmead. Accept it.

[Yung bawse]

Now I remember why I stopped coming on here, can't even have a debate without people getting angry or immature

And I'm not Jmoney mate nice try

[Niall Ferguson]

Thread makes me cry.

[Mame Biram Diouf]

Thread makes me cry.

 

When can we expect them pics you took in Mayweather's gym from when you got invited to train there? Really looking forward to seeing them, must've been a great experience!

[Pro]

The UK GDP is way too centralised in London.

[VENOM]

Now I remember why I stopped coming on here, can't even have a debate without people getting angry or immature

And I'm not Jmoney mate nice try

by "all of america" i meant large numbers...its a figure of speech. Youre the one being immature rattling like a baby bcos you think i literally meant all of the uk. if you cant understand the statement i made in the context of this thread then stay out and stop crying.

[underwriter]

life is just too literal people need to realise when someone says a statement they dont mean all

 

its just common sense

[Captain Planet]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2015/apr/09/kensington-london-liverpool-election-inequality-video

 

mod embed pls

[dub]

Radio 4: Thinking Allowed

Division of Domestic Labour - Gentrification amd Working-Class Residents

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05strvl

 

dropped one quote from the 1960s (when gentrification was going on in Liverpool)

"theres no one as easy to rob of their culture as those who don't know they have one"

[dub]

a girl last week told me she just bought a 1 bedroom flat 1 minute away from Edmonton Green, over £200k

 

surely this isn't life?

[Captain Planet]

lol they are selling 3 bed houses on hertford road n9 for 490, i was disgusted when I saw that being advertised

[ONELOVE]

standard 3 bedroom houses in hackney going for a million..or not far off....SHIT IS CRAZY.

[Badman]

a girl last week told me she just bought a 1 bedroom flat 1 minute away from Edmonton Green, over £200k

 

surely this isn't life?

 

What kind of girl is this?

 

she might be part of the problem

[Meticulous]

fuck ever buying a 1 bed unless its got potential for expansion

 

might as well get a 2 bed

[LS]

 

a girl last week told me she just bought a 1 bedroom flat 1 minute away from Edmonton Green, over £200k

 

surely this isn't life?

 

Fore Street flats are going for 250k.  So nearly went for them but i cba to wait for the rich people to move to Edmonton, it will take years.  Besides, Fore Street (Angel) must be one of the worst places to live community wise.

 

How does a house on Hertford rd go for nearly half a mil? The house next to me sold for 390 and IMO, is arguably on the nicest street in the area.

 

Got a very good price for 1 bed apartment in Bush hill and we get 1k now and over 1k next year.

 

Going to give the rest of my savings to my dad for him to buy a house and convert it into two flats.  That's the goal these days. 

[Greens]

Angel is a truely horrible area.

Saw a 2 bed in Palmers going for 250 not long back, would much rather live there.

[dub]

I wonder how much these are going for (Hertford Road, just south of the Bounces Road junction) https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.62809,-0.056333,3a,75y,96.91h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sY75Ljs2KBPXc1QbdsCWu1Q!2e0!6m1!1e1

Every time I go past them I think they look like the nicest houses in the area

[Captain Planet]

Didn't even need to click the link to know, I've always wondered.

 

I think they're owned by a housing association or something because the refurb job was done all in one go. A land registry/planning check should clear that up but I cba.