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Maybe it had to be this way in order to attract viewers, or at least to get made, but I found it rather a confusing mish-mash of themes, as if there were several different programmes trying to get out.
1) wealth-porn: planes, cars, watches and so on 2) non-doms who made money abroad and lived in London 3) people who made money in Britain but kept it all rather than paying thousands of employees 4) ordinary people being priced out 5) etc, etc. |
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If you're going to be specific to london and its economy, there was a two part documentary a few months ago on the BBC that was far more professional and objective, showed every side good and bad in a balanced way.
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Just Checking,
They wouldn't need all the new housing if they hadn't let so many foreigners into the country. There's your problem - too many people. |
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Well maybe/probably crippen. I'm trying to be as objective as possible here.
More people = more demand. More demand with static supply = higher house prices. There are other factors (more people living alone, people living longer, that's where the jobs are for resident UK people) but it'll obviously be a factor. If other parts of the UK were more attractive, e.g. there were good jobs in Manchester/Liverpool and it was attractive to live there, people earning similar money would be rolling in it buying similar property for a fraction of the price. Immigrant or lone occupant or not. |
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... so the question is, why aren't they moving there?
What could be done to encourage business and thus jobs to move there? When you see the cr*pholes you can get for extortionate sums in london, if there were similar job options for those people elsewhere, where you could get a house twice the size for 2/3 the price... It's almost like it's an open door to be pushed to move jobs elsewhere. |