But the Soviet Union had low crime. It doesnt make it a great place to live. A bit like Singapore. I praise civil liberties. I suppose I just value my rights a bit more.
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But the Soviet Union had low crime. It doesnt make it a great place to live. A bit like Singapore. I praise civil liberties. I suppose I just value my rights a bit more.
peteblue
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i honestly don’t know, a mate of mine is a land buyer for a major builder and he said it’s crazy at the moment..,
Low reported crime, keep it in mind.
A lot of bribery also. Completely unrelated, I assure you.
I suppose just statistically mate. The targets that are being given arent being met, and the numbers arent as much as in years gone by.
I'm sure some people are busy, but from a quant sense, the number of new houses is not as high as it has been.
peteblue
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Perhaps but I can only say as I see…..
Of course. But that's the point isnt it? Often these alleged low crime areas that are being held up as utopias are just more adept at fiddling figures. I'm not having that Singapore, Dubai, Qatar etc are wonderful places to live for most people.
Of course. And I'm not trying to knock your subjective interpretation of what you are seeing. I'm not trying to be snarky, I imagine you're seeing lots of building and know people who are busy.
It's more that statistics say otherwise. Of course, my partner would always tell me to question statistics, but I'm a quant at heart so it's never going to happen!
Over 200,000 new homes were built last year. But when 2- bed flats are £230k and houses are £325k, they are not affordable. Landlords buy them and people have to rent at high prices and then unable to save for a deposit that will work at these for sale prices anyway.
There's not enough affordable housing.
But 200,000 is a lot less than the target, and also a lot less than previous decades.
However I agree, developers also build the wrong type of housing.
I accept that. So say the target is 300k - what changes from the current scenario? People will still be priced out and forced to rent?
Sort of unrelated to the topic of Sunak, but related to the crime thing, so sorry for a small derail here:
During our glory communism days we had no crime, as it is known - proper utopia here, everyone smiling and playing, everyone's respectful...
Definitely not because all the crimes were either swept under a massive red rug or just never actually reported (the English is very basic, but it's one of the few full English articles I've found, sorry). As are all the happy people committing suicide because of the massive depression and relative misery (you have a job, you work all day, you get a bunch of money, but the money is practically useless paper). But it was a happy life, definitely, utopian even. Recently had a chat with my dad and one of his childhood friends, they realised how many of their other friends are no longer with them for tragic personal and unnecessary deaths...
Sorry again for the derail.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Anyway, back to the useless lily livered waste of space ( and Liz Truss can't even qualify.)
It's the sicko's and the alright jacks that are happiest with the current never ending fiasco. And it appears they enjoy it for both financial reward and for the entertainment of others pain.
And for the two peas in a pod, the caste systems that operate in your beloved facist states, are founded upon racism and entitlement and brutality. Quite the parallel.
It's inexact, but since 2001 the number of dwellings has risen by 13%, while the population has risen by 17%. If you then factor that more people live on their own...
In raw numbers, the population has grown by 8 million and there have been 3.5 million new dwellings.
Someone is going to make a fortune converting office blocks with their perfect inner city locations, and great transport links, especially as the clean air zones movement gains momentum. WFH attitudes need formalizing.
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