Originally posted by marinakatombGhandhi once also said "I have to go really, really bad. Where is your hole in the dirt?"
Gandhi once said...
'Make yourself the change you want to see in the world'
And on another occasion he was heard to utter "Anybody seen my watch? I need sand to wash my fingers."
😛
Originally posted by marinakatombWell...
It's a real mystery to me. I live in London, house prices in the last decade have gone through the roof! I have never owned a property, now that i want to i find that i'll need to find about £200,000. Why so much? Well, PROFIT seems to be the main reason. Houses are a great way to make yourself rich, buy one (or two or three, etc..) and you can sell t ...[text shortened]... now, you should PM me (if it's that's great, we don't want everyone knowing about it, ayy 😉)
You are willing to pay for a house. For water. For gas. For heating. For clothing. For the products you get paid less to produce...
Yet, you would probably freak out if some one wanted to charge you for the air you breathed.
Why? Because air is natural?
Well...so are the rest. They are natural things a human needs to survive on.
But as long as people accept it, you're gonna pay over the odds for what is rightfully yours!!!
Own land???
hahahahahahahahahaha
Originally posted by xm1092house prices are equally expensive outside of london...it's pretty ridiculous. A small terraced which cost £25,000 10 years ago are asking £120,000 now.
supply and demand.
If you want a cheaper house, move out of the city.
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Thought i would add, i live in the country, and an apartment costs about $500 US a month. If i were to go to New York City, decent 1 bedroom apartments range between 1500-2000 a month. See a difference? But, on the other hand, in my profession, i can make 30k-40k a year in small towns as opposed to 70k-120k in a city(after i get my degree)
Originally posted by shavixmirI keep having this re-occurring dream were i find myself on the American frontier way back when the States was first discovered. Life is really hard, there is lot's of suffering and battling against the elements, but somehow it's a real life. It's as if that's how it should be. It's left me with a profound sense that our time hear isn't a right, it's something that has to be earned. I find working in an office, eating canteen food to be a shallow, worthless existence. Where is the struggle? The passion? the pain and joy? On TV we have all of these things, but life is fast proving to be a poor imitation.
Well...
You are willing to pay for a house. For water. For gas. For heating. For clothing. For the products you get paid less to produce...
Yet, you would probably freak out if some one wanted to charge you for the air you breathed.
Why? Because air is natural?
Well...so are the rest. They are natural things a human needs to survive on.
But as ...[text shortened]... re gonna pay over the odds for what is rightfully yours!!!
Own land???
hahahahahahahahahaha
Originally posted by marinakatombI have a recurring nightmare where I find myself living in a time where people die of appendicitis, where only a handful of people sample the true variety of live on earth, where education is not known and where the human condition is unredeemably nasty, brutish and short.
I keep having this re-occurring dream were i find myself on the American frontier way back when the States was first discovered. Life is really hard, there is lot's of suffering and battling against the elements, but somehow it's a real life. It's as if that's how it should be. It's left me with a profound sense that our time hear isn't a right, i ...[text shortened]... ain and joy? On TV we have all of these things, but life is fast proving to be a poor imitation.
I then wake up in dear old Blighty in 2005; it's as if this is how life should be.
If you're young and educated (I think you score on both counts) get off your arse and get yourself trained up in an area that needs the skills - IT or plumbing. Then get some experience and you should have no problem pulling down at least £50K a year. You should be able to buy a property with that.
Else move to Wales and farm goats...
Originally posted by marinakatombTeachers in the country here get to live in nice government supplied houses for next to nothing rents. And there's all those holidays they get, plus, teachers in government schools have to do a country stint so there's a shortage of good ones in the bush.
I'd really like to teach actually, but there's no profit in it 😞[/b]
I know this is a drastic step, but you really need to consider leaving London, and the South East generally. I live in Hampshire, but I go to uni in Glasgow. Much as I enjoy the SE, I'm seriously considering living Up North later on. Houses can be bought for the price of a car, wages aren't much lower.
Originally posted by marinakatombSounds a bit like a guy I heard once complaining about having to polish all that brass on his yacht.
It's a real mystery to me. I live in London, house prices in the last decade have gone through the roof! I have never owned a property, now that i want to i find that i'll need to find about £200,000. Why so much? Well, PROFIT seems to be the main reason. Houses are a great way to make yourself rich, buy one (or two or three, etc..) and you can sell t ...[text shortened]... now, you should PM me (if it's that's great, we don't want everyone knowing about it, ayy 😉)
You have it better than 90% of the world´s population. And 99.99999% of your ancestors, who lived in squalor, and died young.
Enjoy it.
Originally posted by steerpikeSpoken like a prison rat with a true knowledge of what is right and wrong. Really. ..... really?
Sounds a bit like a guy I heard once complaining about having to polish all that brass on his yacht.
You have it better than 90% of the world´s population. And 99.99999% of your ancestors, who lived in squalor, and died young.
Enjoy it.
The point is that this dude did "brag" about what a big whiff he is... being "locked up" and all then forgoes the apology that one would expect from a clown who robs old ladies of their purses.
Right? Why should we pay any attention to you? Steer Fuc%er? Oh! Scuse me.... "piker"... not Fuc%er. Sorry.
errrr.... Who? ... other than bbarr thinks you are a wonderful citizen because you side with him against svw?
In case you two missed it... that is a direct challenge for you to "join" your two great intellects in a debate. Ahem.... svw kind of smiles at the thought of these two intellectual midgets hooking up....
Much as I enjoy the SE, I'm seriously considering living Up North later on.My wife's cousin, a property man, sold his modest abode in Streatham and bought a whacking big three-storey house in New Brighton. It is immense, especially if you're used to London hutches. Then the rest of the cousins copied him, and now they all live within a few streets of each other.
I bought a studio flat in Poole (UK south coast) in 1991 for £21k and sold it 6 years later for £28k (a pretty good 33.33% profit, which I was pleased with as it funding my wedding) and moved to rented accommodation.
2 years ago (2003) my little old studio was on the market for £89k and now similar properties in that area are going for £100k+. That is £100k for a bedroom come living room, small kitchen and small bathroom!!
Jeez! I should have got a loan for the wedding and held onto the flat. Oh well.
A friend of mine bought a bedsitter off the Lea Navigation towpath from the South Tottenham council for 120K last year. You could fold the place up into a matchbox. Ironic, really, considering that the rest of the people on the estate don't have to pay anything (she now suspects that the council put hers up for sale because there might be something wrong with the structure and they don't want to take the insurance risk).
Originally posted by marinakatombdoes Canada still offer free land to immigrants/homesteaders?
I keep having this re-occurring dream were i find myself on the American frontier way back when the States was first discovered. Life is really hard, there is lot's of suffering and battling against the elements, but somehow it's a real life. It's as if that's how it should be. It's left me with a profound sense that our time hear isn't a right, i ...[text shortened]... ain and joy? On TV we have all of these things, but life is fast proving to be a poor imitation.
enjoy life now, when you're old your job will be done by a robot and you'll pay 120k for a refrigerator box ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot
"Some scientists believe that robots will be able to approximate human-like intelligence in the first half of the 21st century. Even before such theoretical intelligence levels are obtained, it is speculated that robots may begin to replace humans in many labor-intensive career fields. The cybernetics pioneer Norbert Wiener discussed some of these issues in his book The human use of human beings (1950), in which he speculated that robots taking over human jobs may initially lead to growing unemployment and social turmoil, but that in the medium-term it might bring increased material wealth to people in most nations."