rondy
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I'm not making any assumptions.
For what it's worth I agree with most of your analysis here, but not your conclusions. The bureaucrats AREN'T to blame. That's like blaming the copilot for crashing a plane after 2 engines fell off. The fault lies with the sector as a whole. The system is rotten to the core. How many academics on here bemoan target setting and bureaucracy on one hand, but moan about government funding cuts on the other? They've thrown themselves at the mercy of the system, they don't like it, but they;re of the opinion that somehow more of the same is the answer. It's insane.
The guy above who said they'd thought of giving PhD students some responsibility so they could give them all the 5hitty jobs sums the sector up perfectly. It's full of idiots from top to bottom who have no idea how to run anything.
You have no understanding of academic life. Everything you write is 100% rubbish.
Why do you want to look like a clown on public forums?
Get a life loser!
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I Both at Russel group unis (not that that's worth anything) but I'll not go back until I'm well past my peak
Offered the jobs to do what? Clean the toilets or remove the rubbish?
You really sound like somebody in great demand, being as stupid as you are.
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Well, I'm afraid I can't agree that there is a 'glut' of properties in Majorca (certainly not compared to the coast from Valencia to Gibraltar) or that all areas of Spain have been transfored into 'rubbish'. Obviously you are not a big fan of the country and you're entitled to your opinion, but I think you'll find its still a v. popular destination for many. Personally I think prices will fall in most places (Majorca included) but crash in areas where the developments got badly out of control (ie. Costa Blanca particularly). There's a difference in the scale of the damage.
I am a big fan of Spain. But the area around Torreivieja is rubbish, as is the area between Vera and MOjacar in Almeria, as are some spots on Granada Coasta and around Almeria city. Some places in CDS tend to become rubbish too. I expect prices there to reach very low bottoms.
There still are some excellent places like many on Costa Brava. I only know partially Majorca and a bit of Ibiza so I cannot comment much on balearics.
And yes, prices in Majorca will fall much less than the ones in South Costa Blanca, Murcia or Almeria.
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I, at times, live in Gijon. Asturias, "Natural Paradise" and it certainly is! Never too cold, never too hot and the scenery, particularly around the Picos and Llanes is spectacular. Like a warmer Wales.
However.........nowhere is safe from the blight of half finished apartment blocks, they are all over Asturias too, amazing, I have no idea who they thought were going to live there, it is a notorious job blackpsot. Every town and City in Spain has these ghost builds, I went to place called Cuidad Real last month, a dog of place in the middle of nowhere, Spain's Stoke. The whole place is dotted with half finished blocks, I went for a walk around them pretending I was Kurt Russell in Escape from New York. They are hardly ever 3 bedroom places either, they are 90% 1 or 2 bedrooms, cheap as chips, boxes, they can't screw people with these cages anymore, the tables have turned. Nobody will ever want them.
Go to Teruel, it is not overbuilt. Probably because Brits have not heard too much about it...
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I couldn't live anywhere 365 days a year but, all things being equal, I wouldn't mind having a place on Lanzarote.
Fuerteventura is one big beach! Not been to Sotavento but Ive been to Jandia in the south of the island - bit too desolate for me (or at least it was in 1988).
Well, you have Corralejo or Caleta de Fuste for noisy area and Jandia, Costa Calma and Cotillo for quiet area.
Jandia is still quite empty.
I liked Fuerteventura and other Canary Islands but I would rather go twice to mainland Spain for the same price. During the winter holidays I prefer to go skiing so cold weather does not bother me. Otherwise Cape Verde could be a better choice than Canary.
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Id stay away from Tenerife then, its got a bloody big mountain on it 12 500ft high!
Seriously, if it were me, Id pick Lanzarote any old day of the week, more aesthetically pleasing (no high rise) less chavvy than Tenerife and just as easy to get to.
Could you live in Lanzarote 365 days/year?
Fuerteventura has better beaches than Lanzarote. Have you ever been on Sotavento?
Tenerife is attractive to me especially because of Teide. You can find non-Brits areas, especially in the NOrth.
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What do people think prices will do there? (years and % of going down)
Which are the very nicest Islands and why?
I can't do cold at all nor hills (very damaged heart and strokes)
I don't want a place where it's infested with chavs or find some pissed yob wearing a 'kiss me quick' hat is going to throw up on my door step whilst shagging some slapper he has just pulled in a club.
You should go visit. You can find £50 airfares to any Canary island by Easyjet.
You should see them all and decide which one is the nicest for you. I prefer Tenerife and my wife hates it. She like Fuerteventura which I find acceptable.
There are chavs everywhere, try to find areas like Costa Calma in Fuerteventura with bigger German retired populaiton, they tend to behave less chavy.
About hospitals, probably the best bet is Tenerife, I do not think there is any good hospital in Fuerteventura or Lanzarote.
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So you're saying that property built on a beautiful island with strict planning controls, limited space, and popular with those who have serious money won't hold its value better than property built by corrupt speculators, without any planning permission and located right next to ugly blocks of similar properties built by yet more corrupt speculators, without any planning permission. Hmmmm.
Look at fotocasa.com and you will see a huge number of properties on Majorca.
Maybe Menorca could do better, definitely Formentera will do better.
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I don't need or want to sell, the small mortgage I had is now paid off. I agree if 'financial armageddon' strikes Spain, everywhere will fall (- maybe I'm missing a trick by not selling now and buying back later do you think?) Frankly a huge crash in prices all over Spain is not a done deal.
Each area has to be taken on its merits - looked at property on the Costa Blanca before buying on Majorca and knew that it was a bad investment, as well as somewhere I wouldn't want to spend leisure time. Skyscraper apartments, development as far as the eye could see, not enough local infrastructure - fine if you want to spend your life/holidays on a building site. The islands are very different. I didn't buy to make enormous profit so if prices fall 15% I can handle that - I bought for the lifestyle. If prices fall 15% on the Balearics you can guarntee the fall on the mainland will be at least double (as I personally hope it will be in the UK!!).
We all know Costa Blanca , especially South from Alicante, is mainly a bad area and the Brits enclaves there are going to be inhabited.
But Majorca also has a big glut of properties so the prices are going to fall there too.
Formenterea might be the only safe place, as they did not have time to transform it into rubbish.
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I own a half-share of a property in Majorca (bought about five and a half years ago - very frustrated at UK property prices, the property in Spain was much better value, I love Spanish way of life, plus may want to live there/spend lots of time there when I'm older). I don't care if values go up or down (within reason) as I get a lot of pleasure time I spend there and a get a very small amount of income from lets to people I know.
Anyway, the point is that the falls aren't universal in Spain. Development on the Balearics has been better controlled, the resorts have better infrastucture and property is not as over-supplied. Therefore prices haven't really fallen much there (although new builds are not selling). Agree that on mainland Spain it is a bloodbath.........
The usual "it is different here" point of view.
The bloodbath will be everywhere. SEll and rent while you can.
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Those crafty Germans with any savings left will soon be buying up swathes of the Costas. A 2 bed appt for 1 year's wages, for example. There are winners and losers in any cycle. This time it's the Germans. For the last 15 years it was the Brits and their mew'ed lifestyles that built the Costas. The Spanish
Germans already bought in Spain. There is no one left in Germany without Spanish property. Even the DDR guys...
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will be able to soon, they will be giving them away, and with all the problems people have with property over there,
add all this to it, spain property = worthless
i for one am laughing ,
And you know something? Some idiots on other forums are still pretending they have reached the bottom in Spain and prices will start growing?
Easy to guess that they all are estate agents...
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Ok guys I would never normally do this, but this is a special case probably (if indeed he is not talking out of his **** for attention).
Your IP has been logged, which gives a pretty close 300m radius of your location. Officers in that area have been contacted (funnily has to be faxed lol in this day and age indeed).... with these details and the information you posted in this forum.
Vehicles will be checked and should be easy enough to narrow down to the type of vehicle you drive.
What if he/she was joking? You would have wasted your precious time and police precious time for nothing.
If somebody on this Forum would claim that is the reincarnation of Michael Jackson, would you call the doctors?
I am sure you are joking too.
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An investors’ club has started organising bus tours for bargain hunters looking for distressed property on the Costa del Sol, according to a recent article in the Spanish daily El Pais. On offer are luxury properties on new developments with discounts of up to 50%. “We are going to see real bargains,” participants in the first tour were told.
Organised by Círculo Financiero Internacional, an investors’ club, the tour is free for members but cost 20 Euros for non-members. “The market is stagnating, and developers need to shift new homes that in some cases they have built and paid for, and in other cases are being repossessed, or belong to the banks,” explains the tour guide.
20 Euros a bus ticket in Costa del Sol?? Is inflation that bad over there?
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I wonder if the figure includes the seasonal unemployed. If tourism is one of Spains biggest industries then surely the unemployment figure is a lot higher in Autumn/Winter. May be this is factored in already. Does anybody know?
Also because such a large amount of work is done cash in hand in Spain it doesn't surprise me that this figure is so high and is aways historically higher than Northern European Countries.
In the UK the real unemployment figure is just over 18%, so a little bit worse than Spain (Source BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7753037.stm) if not a lot higher if you include illegal immigrants plus all the added fat in the Public Sector in places like N.Ireland etc (taxpayers propping up employment figures in deprived areas).
Unfortunately there are lies, damned lies and the UK Government. Europeans cant have the wool pulled over their eyes but the only way the British Public would really understand the precise unemployment problem in the UK is if Jordan and Peter Andre wrote a song about it.
Here comes the Spanish advocate!
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I have been looking at Spain to make an early retirement home there. I was there again in December 2008. Parasitically anywhere on the coast is a terrible concrete jungle. Now I move on to the prices, with employment passing through 17% and moving up to 20% and predicted to go further, for anyone to say prices will not fall further is simply extremely naive at it's very best. The average debt per person is third in the world, the UK is first, Ireland is second. So you can drone on about parts of Spain where it will turn a round, but to me it's very much like going to a party and hearing some bore of a person say "well in my road properties always sell, there in such demand you see, prices will not go down as in other areas". At the moment you can see properties will 50% knocked off the price. That's what you have to do to sell.
I crossed Spain off my list, I won't be buying there even with 50% or more off. Spain has good weather for a lot of the year but not all of the year. There are much better places to live and get away from the sheeple
Don't take Adibrown seriously (or Einstein how he call him nowadays). He is not naive, he has vested interest in rampin Spanish property.
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If saying that prices will fall and dont buy in Spain for investment makes me a "ramper" then I hold my hands up. I for one have no intention whatsoever of ever selling my one house in Spain that I paid cash for many years ago t any point so what would I ever have to gain from "ramping" up the market there?
You never said don't buy in Spain. You have always said that you were in bidding wars for properties and such.
There are many posters on the Overseas Property that know that you are a Spanish property ramper.
About buying in Spain, it is still far for the bottom.
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I visit Spain regularly as I used to live out there. I chose to come home after 2 years to take a business proposition but I am 100% moving back there in 10 years time. When I visit all my friends out there I see a different Spain to the one I read about in the British Press or watch on Trevor Tonight. People laid back, healthy and happy enjoying life to the full. No one appears trapped, stressed out...no one is being conned etc. No one gives a fig about the price of houses or Spanish Banks in trouble. The same bars are open, the same tapas are available and the little place on the harbour doing the menu del dia is still packed every lunchtime. The fresh fish is still there as are the markets selling every vegetable fresh and in big bags for a euro. The sun still shines, the BBQ sizzles and the wine flows.
Listen, and this may come as a shock to many people, but the majority of expats in Spain are happily living in the sun and believe that moving to Spain is the best decision they have ever made in their lives. The speculators have been burnt, the developers have gone bust.....great news for most expats living in Spain, they all wanted the building/development work to stop and now this is finally happening.
Ignorance is bliss.
Again shame on you for degrading the name Einstein.
Still ramping Spanish property like a broken record?
In 2006 you were saying that Spanish property prices will not go down as all Northerns and their dos want to move there.
Now, after 30% price decrease, what the hell are you still saying? If anybody followed your stupid advise to buy in 2006, they would have lost lots of money.
Sorry Adibrown, you still sound stupid after all these years.
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You wouldn't by any chance live south of Watford, would you?
Unfortunately I live in Merseyside. The good thing is that I live in Wirral so only have contact with Liverpoodlians when walking from Lime Street Station to University and back.
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Not if you set a-levels such that the top 10% get A, then the 15% after get B, then 15% get C etc
That way, the top 25% of kids are quite clearly highlighted, doesn’t matter how easy or hard the exam is, as the % would be the same year on year.
But then Guardian and such will scream that the blue-collar-fmaliy children are disadvantaged because they had a slower start in life, etc.
The best way would be an entry exam in Universities.
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No one can credibly argue against requesting kids to have at a minimum BBB to go to university.
Make this requirement and be sure that at least 50% of the secondary school graduates will have a minimum BBB.
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Should photography be taught at university? Does it really take 3 years to learn how to take photos?
No. No,
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The most stupid assumption made by the government, “teachers” and universities is that the kids need to be taught.
Humans have the ability to teach themselves and we do every day. Even “advanced” subjects can be self-taught with the Internet and books.
Humans have the ability but lose it during the years of computer-game--childhood followed by boozy and sex-filled adolescence with Big Brother and WAGS aspiration.
A vast majority of secondary school graduates are not useful for the society, they do not know how to think and do not have many goals in life.
The Universities are their last chance to finally put their brains on the right track. Many waste this last chance.
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yes you can tech yourself quantum mechanics by reading a book. i did just that, so did perhaps 80% of my physics class.
lectures were ok but the vast majority of learning was the individual with books or friends teaching each other.
how about you limit university places to those with a minimum of BBB at a-levels, then the money work is done at secondary schools and colleges.
I am not the government...
I just need to take the students and teach them something such they are not useless for the society.
You might have learned Quantum Mechanics by yourself, but most of the students cannot learn by themselves even how to solve a second order equation or to draw a y = 2 x +1 graph. It is that bad.
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Last time they went into administration they had excellent deals for children clothes, 90% off. NOt bad quality either.
They might have the same now.