Quote Originally Posted by Legs View Post
House prices may in some part be an indicator of wealth, but they are not an indicator of a residents disposable income, in fact if you look at the link the price fluctuation highlighted for the period is driven by people who may not even be residents of the area, as it notes its people seeking to avoid the upcoming tax on property they don't live in.
Remember the highlighted words, they are yours.
The key factor in assessing disposable income is income, without that you can't do anything with the statistics on house price, then you would need to factor in owner occupation, with and without outstanding mortgage, then the rental sector, then social rental sector then local charges, then transport costs and on and on and on.

The statistic provided means nothing in relation to local wealth or local disposable income, indeed with the article used it doesn't even mean local people.
House price indicates rental price, rental price indicates disposable income, as do the cost of mortgage re-payments, actually. Greyblades' argument was flawed in its simplicity, not its logic.

How is it offensive?
I was tempted to refuse to dignify this with a response but that would be pointless.

It was offensive because you dismissed the feelings of others as irrelevant, then described their opinion as drivel and nonsense, which are both insults.

Try real life face to face. For example I had an interesting discussion with an archtiect and two engineers today, words you describe as offensive were used plus some actually offensive ones, no one stormed out or wanted to throw things, an agreement was reached on the contended issues based on practicality and facts.
I try to be nice to people in real life - I get more hugs and free drinks that way.