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Microflats the future of housing in cities
squeezed replied to coypondboy's topic in House prices and the economy
Well, it looks like the UK population is going to keep on growing https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationprojections/bulletins/nationalpopulationprojections/2020basedinterim and there won't be more space available to common folk (unless there is a radical land reform or a revolution happening) so brace for more and more extreme solutions, folks. This terraced 2 bed in Burnley might be a sound investment in the next decade, after all. -
I have asked my last employer for a small 15% raise. They said "no, we can't do that" so I have left. It was a good move as I make 4 times more now.
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Mass changes to UK immigration requirements
squeezed replied to maffo in oxford's topic in House prices and the economy
There are thousands of Costa and Starbucks coffee machines in places like WHS, making coffee without human being present, no price difference though. A double espresso is still 2.80 or thereabouts, just like in staffed outlets, the only difference being you ca enjoy your drink without having a brief conversation with a "highly trained and professional barista" who invariably pronounces espresso "expresso". -
Twenty-eight-year-old Hayley Tillotson is the first person in the UK believed to have been made bankrupt because of the cladding crisis. She bought her first home in Leeds two years ago but learnt that it was clad with flammable material. Overwhelmed with the extra costs of dealing with the problems, she had to hand back her keys. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-55847260
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Mass changes to UK immigration requirements
squeezed replied to maffo in oxford's topic in House prices and the economy
I see from your comments on this forum that you know the future. Can you tell me what should I do right now? What should I invest my money in? -
Absolutely everything is "Chain Free"
squeezed replied to Locke's topic in House prices and the economy
I didn't realize the proces of putting the property on the market is that fast in Hampshire. The house is listed before the deceased got cold. It doesn't look like that around my endZ. The most recently listed properties are from the end of last year. -
Mass changes to UK immigration requirements
squeezed replied to maffo in oxford's topic in House prices and the economy
Well if you know one Pole on good money that means that you have very limited network of personal contacts, nothing else. Anecdotal evidence means here the same as it does anywhere else that is f all. Maybe you could meet more rich Poles living in Britain if you moved out of your council bedsit in Burnley you are currently occupying? -
Latest Grand Designs - £4.5m four year conversion
squeezed replied to telespy's topic in House prices and the economy
Free to those who can afford it, very expensive to those who can't. -
Of course it hasn't affected anyone on this forum. Opinionated economical internet gurus from HPC forum; they know it all, share their priceless advice here daily but despite sounding solid it somehow is never right and IRL they live in squalor in council-paid homeshares in worst areas of Burnley and Blackpool, nourishing themselves with diet consisting of £1 frozen pizzas from Iceland and cheapest Lidl crisps, their marriages long ago broken and their kids no longer talking to them : )
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I'm thinking of giving up on work
squeezed replied to phantominvestor's topic in House prices and the economy
Sounds like a very good plan. I would take this money and go to Japan to study buddhism Zen for a couple of years if I were you. -
Looking back I see that it turned out to be a very good advice, I wonder if she did as I told her.
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In WM area the answer is very simple - old house is bought by Asians, next stage is: enter the Asian building company employing illegals. They seem to be working on every other project in Bham. No H&S, no PPE, no English spoken, no questions asked, just the job getting done quickly and cheaply. Last stage: freshly pimped-up 3bed house sold for 50k more than it was bought a month ago.
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Buying a house - Mining survey
squeezed replied to user not found's topic in House prices and the economy
Also, the house might be standing on a formerly excavated site that has been afterwards backfiled with all sorts of rubbish and remains unstable. I have seen a house like that in Smethwick. One wall had cracks all over because that side of the building was slowly sinking into such a pit. -
University Bubble Making Hissing Sounds
squeezed replied to Sancho Panza's topic in House prices and the economy
IDK how very relevant it is to the main topic but I have just went past the gates of the University of Birmingham in Selly Oak and what stroke me was that this section of the Bournbrook Rd, right next to the uni gate, https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4464586,-1.9276255,3a,60y,344.79h,88.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVDYTl83ImlUG0HliH7AzOg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 is plastered with "TO LET" signs right and left. Same goes for this area, always bursting wih (mainly Chinese) students in the autumn season, now seems eerily empty... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4495473,-1.9474241,3a,75y,118.14h,74.58t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1VFdwoEzJpOAkGFhAs8wew!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 I didn't go around the whole Selly Oak area which is basically one big cluster of BTL HMO students terraced houses but if the most popular spots look like that, the rest probably fares no better. -
I tried to get an adviser from them unbiased.co.uk, gave them my details, joint income of 24k pa, 25k deposit, want to borrow 125k. Got an email today. Nope. None of our advisers has time right now. They won't speak to likes of you. Get your finances in better shape and come back. That's basically what they said.
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Examples of big & multiple drops
squeezed replied to user not found's topic in House prices and the economy
Not surprised why it won't sell. The decor. Too many not-matching items crammed together in this flat. I got sensory overload from just looking at those pictures. If I want to get on a psychedelic trip I will drop an acid. Living in that place would mean I was on a very bad trip all the time.