DementedTuna

So basically some people made a giant 3D printing system for building houses of any desired configuration without the cost and safety hazards of the current construction industry. The houses include steel reinforced concrete walls, full plumbing, and full electronics wiring and networking. All done by a rather straightforward robot, and from bare foundation to finished product in 20 hours. The application potential for low cost, high quality housing across the globe is staggering. Essentially the cost of the home comes down to renting the machine, buying whichever house format file you like, and the materials needed. To hell with printing money, it's time to start printing houses! Lets see how valuable they are after this happens.

No chance of this happening. Euro is going down and things are going in reverse.

At this point I'd like to note that the (scrapped by the Labour government) Thames estuary windfarm project which would have permanently supplied 2% of the UK's energy needs.. would only have cost £2bn. The NHS costs £100bn/year to run. We have now spent more on banks during the recession than we have on healthcare. Spending on healthcare and construction projects also generates jobs, which helps further with reducing unemployment and stimulating the economy. Going "here banks, have a free £50bn to play with" does nothing. Didn't work back when it was £150bn total. Didn't work back when it was £200bn total. Didn't work back when it was £275bn total. Didn't work back when it was £325bn total. Current government policy = Hurr Durr, maybe if we give them another fifty billion to raise that total to £375bn then that will cure the recession? The sad thing is, no-one will riot because they don't understand that the recession is *caused* by this, that the rising prices on their weekly food shop is a direct result of them having to pay all this back through inflation (which is massively higher than the reported figures).

Even if it doesn't work out in the end, it'll have been a smart way to spend the money. £11k, that's 2 years of rent in some random shithole. Okay, the bus itself might qualify as "random shithole" especially in the winter, but at least they won't be paying extra for it after the second year, and can drive wherever they want and enjoy themselves. If they live there for 5 or so years until it gets a bit knackered, they'll have saved £15k or so and might even be able to sell it to a traveller who wants a really s*****y ride.

This dumb bint is my MP.

I turned 25 just over a month ago. Thank ****** too, if you're under 25 you get *nothing*, no matter how much tax you've paid in the past. - You get £20/week less JSA, which makes it even more miserable than it already is. - You don't get working tax credit. - Soon you won't get housing benefit either, so even working youngsters will have to live at home or find a cardboard box until they hit 25 if they're unfortunate. Young people don't vote, so governments feel free to take a sloppy great shit on them, without realising that they might grow up, start voting, and start holding a serious grudge. I know my mum hates the tories with a passion, and that largely stems from her being treated like crap as a young person in the 80's by the tory government back then. This kind of consistent "screw the young" policy is one of the main reasons why we keep ending up with huge support for labour later on as the people who had it rough under the tories grow up.

So, basically, in short, the answer is "It's a ******ing mess"?

If I were an employer, I'd fire my staff, then re-hire them for free after they've joined the dole queue, all on the government's pocket. Winner.

Signed! These things tend to tail off fairly quickly, but this one should at least hit the 100k mark and trigger a debate. I didn't sign the "EU referendum" petition, because I don't think it makes a lot of difference whether we're in or out... we're tied to Europe economically, and will be tied to it regardless of what the technicalities are. Wrong question, wrong time. Immigration issue is a million times more important than taking a few plonkers out of Brussels.

I am currently expecting a nice, slow crash, not in terms of the actual asking prices being lowered significantly (I see a 10-20% asking price drop dragged out over the course of many years the way things are going)... ... but in terms of inflation going steady at 5% or more per year, for a very long time. After a decade of that, we'll have our 50% fall, and the public won't even be aware that house prices have actually crashed. I think HPC simply needs to recognise that it's simply not going to see the crash occur in the epic crash and burn 50% drop over 2 years fashion that it wants. 50% off over 10 years though, with this fact largely hidden by inflation to fool the ignorant masses? Yes, that could easily occur.

No, it's accurate, in the UK we treat a billion as having 9 zeroes. In America, they consider a billion to have 12 zeroes.

Reports coming in of stuff kicking off in Wolverhampton as well, it's all over the place.

Keeping lettuce crisp is easy, just wrap it in a paper towel.

Planning permission. Even if you bought the expensive land that's round where you live, you wouldn't be allowed to build that log house on it. Over the years there have been several people who have built their own houses, mostly hidden away on farmland that they own, but without the correct "permission". They got bulldozed. If you can live there for 4 years without anyone knowing, you get to keep it. If not, you get bulldozed.

I'd say that the women on mumsnet are mostly the stay-at-home type with not much better to do. The average working mum probably doesn't have much time to be messing around with sites like that what with the job and the kids and everything.

Injin, I would rather work in a min-wage job for 2 days per week, than have to go down to the job centre and deal with their government shit once a week, and grovel like some sort of whimpering dog for the honour of being granted barely enough money to survive. Going on benefits is not freedom, it's slavery. Even more so than work.

I am 23 years old. I was on benefits for a few months a while ago. I don't think you have ever been on JSA and had to queue up in the rain with all the chavs then face some jumped-up tosser of an interviewer who probably got beaten up a lot in high school and now enjoys taking it out on the unemployed, otherwise you wouldn't have made that post. No ******ing way am I ever going back on them... you basically get treated like a piece of trash, you have your benefits cut and withdrawn for arbitrary and petty reasons. You receive random phone calls early in the morning asking you a ton of personal questions which get recorded and put on your file.. it's psychological terrorism designed to make the unemployed feel as miserable as possible. As if they didn't have enough problems already with our ******** Daily Mail culture resulting in the popular opinion of "no job = you are scum". You have to practically beg and grovel to get any money from the government, and even then you can expect to wait weeks or months for them to bother to respond to you while you starve. What the fucking HELL are you smoking? Life on benefits is fucking SHIT. Especially if you're under 24 and only get £50 JSA instead of £67.50.

Yeah, I can see yearly falls of 5% over the course of 5 years being much more likely than the 20% crash we had in 2008. Naturally, happening while IR's and/or inflation creep up. Can easily see 30% falls without the country even realising that it's happened. This one's gonna get real stagnant.. pretty sure it's not gonna be headline crashes/ mass repos like the 90's.. we'll get exactly the same number of repos, they'll just be spread over about 4 years instead of occuring in one. So it'll never make the news.

Expect the unaccepted, or accept the unexpected! Because expecting and not accepting.. just leads to abortions.

So, the poet's descendants seriously decided to make a quick buck by selling off his tomb, yanking out the corpse and putting it up for sale for someone else to inhabit? Bastards!

You need to start thinking beyond the obvious. For example, did you know that Costa Rica is a mostly full of english/spanish speaking european immigrants, and is an excellent place to live with a tropical climate, a genuinely excellent government and very low housing costs? Can you point to costa rica accurately on a map? Don't worry, most other people can't either, inlcuding a lot of people who have already left the UK!

Well, it's such a shame that there physically is no more land to build on around these villages, if only there was a few hundred square kilometers or so of empty space between the village and the nearby towns then there wouldn't be a problem, we could just build more houses for the young people to live in! Wait, what's that skippy? There's a state-funded land ownership cartel designed to artificially restrict supply? Well ********, they didn't mention that in the article. I wonder why?

Here's a better, non-stupid-newspaper article on the topic: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/google-launches-uk-property-search-service-696871 Pretty good move overall, it's been on the cards for some time.

More like he's just been given the "I want a house" message. For a lot of women that seems to be a bigger priority than having a husband. Lemme guess, Mr. Fling has a bit of a wedge on him?

There's more to life than money, and personally I'd be happier to increase our space budget about 5x to bring it up to the level of France and Germany's spend. There are very few activities we do on this planet that are not entirely pointless, most of them have their own counterparts within ant colonies or bee hives. We work, eat, we mate, we live, we die, repeat. Yawn. Progression to a point beyond that is the only thing that has ever mattered throughout human history.