I hate Britain [Rant thread]

**BDC** · 03-06-2007, 19:04

Originally Posted by The_Emperor

We wouldn't have the need for all these new homes if the greedy yuppies didn't keep buying second third or even fourth homes pricing ordinary people out of the market.

There needs to be a limit on how many houses you can own, even if your buying to rent.

I don't know, I think it's more all these divorced people who buy out new homes to live on their own. So instead of a family taking up 1 4 bedroomed house, it now takes up two.

Maybe you could give tax breaks depending on how many people live in a house...

Buying to rent doesn't really cause sprawl. It just means people end up renting. Sooner or later the market is going to fall though, looking at prices there is no way even a couple can get onto the market without being investment bankers or inheriting a fortune.

**doc_bean** · 03-06-2007, 21:37

Originally Posted by BDC

I don't know, I think it's more all these divorced people who buy out new homes to live on their own. So instead of a family taking up 1 4 bedroomed house, it now takes up two.

Maybe you could give tax breaks depending on how many people live in a house...

Buying to rent doesn't really cause sprawl. It just means people end up renting. Sooner or later the market is going to fall though, looking at prices there is no way even a couple can get onto the market without being investment bankers or inheriting a fortune.

I don't know, I don't know a lot of empty houses around here.

**Hosakawa Tito** · 03-07-2007, 00:28

The grass always looks greener over the septic tank.....

**Tribesman** · 03-07-2007, 01:32

3) The land that was the wasteland used to be an old textiles mill. I could see them digging up the old cellars today .

So any devolpment there would be brown site not green belt and subject to different planning laws .

4) Yes, actually, the rabbits and pheasants are native animals.

Nope they is damn immigrants

just like the grey squirrel .

5) To be quite honest, yes. Heck, if it would make more of the country beautiful, i'd demolish about 60% of houses around here, including my own, to make the countryside more beautiful, but it wouldn't be more beautiful for the sake of my eyes - it would be for the sake of the environment. I believe that as a country gets richer, people should allow the lands to return to the state they were in before we buggered it all up.

Yep make everyone move into the cities , and of course stop the farming which makes the countryside look the way it does and of course non of that set-aside rubbish since that stops the land returning to its original state (if that were at all possible ) .
BTW Thanks for the answering the questions