Guest mattsta1964 Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5187096.stm An example from this webpage Myself and my fiancé are moving to Berlin in the not so distant future. We have purchased a house in a very nice area of Berlin for 160,000 Euros; the equivalent house and area in London would be in the region of £600,000! From an economic point of view, the German economy is still depressed so I will have to commute to London on the Monday morning (depart 06:30) and back on Thursday evening (depart 20:10). I am sure it will become tiresome but what¿s the alternative? This country has a great economy but it has got to the point where it is so expensive to live that living aboard and commuting is a realistic alternative. Especially when the healthcare and education systems are on par or better than the UK. Mark, London Says it all doesn't it! How much more fekkn ridiculous can it get?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realistbear Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5187096.stm An example from this webpage Myself and my fiancé are moving to Berlin in the not so distant future. We have purchased a house in a very nice area of Berlin for 160,000 Euros; the equivalent house and area in London would be in the region of £600,000! From an economic point of view, the German economy is still depressed so I will have to commute to London on the Monday morning (depart 06:30) and back on Thursday evening (depart 20:10). I am sure it will become tiresome but what¿s the alternative? This country has a great economy but it has got to the point where it is so expensive to live that living aboard and commuting is a realistic alternative. Especially when the healthcare and education systems are on par or better than the UK. Mark, London Says it all doesn't it! How much more fekkn ridiculous can it get?? A lot more if Gordon gets his way. 50% increase in HPI in the next 4 years, or so he may think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzMosiz Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Talk about two faced ***k**s at the BBC "Fed up with over-priced cities and overcrowded trains?" Yeah fed up with you funkers ramping house prices!!! :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancypants Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 I saw this piece earlier today - another classic piece of lazy space-filling journalism from the Beeb. Basically, a travel agent has produced a report stating that we will all be travelling much more in the future. Marvellous. and utterly, utterly wrong of course. Not to mention dangerously at odds with the reality that is slowly dawning on the populace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzMosiz Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 I saw this piece earlier today - another classic piece of lazy space-filling journalism from the Beeb. Basically, a travel agent has produced a report stating that we will all be travelling much more in the future. Marvellous. and utterly, utterly wrong of course. Not to mention dangerously at odds with the reality that is slowly dawning on the populace. Yeah and when Spain/Germany etc are a bit too expensive you can move to Antartica and commute to work on a boat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cddiment Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Totally agree about the ramping, still you can only ramp so far before it stops having effect. You know how you run to keep an old kite in the air, but at some point you run out of land to run on and the kite falls? No wind=no flight Talk about two faced ***k**s at the BBC "Fed up with over-priced cities and overcrowded trains?" Yeah fed up with you funkers ramping house prices!!! :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Als Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 I saw this piece earlier today - another classic piece of lazy space-filling journalism from the Beeb. Basically, a travel agent has produced a report stating that we will all be travelling much more in the future. Marvellous. and utterly, utterly wrong of course. Not to mention dangerously at odds with the reality that is slowly dawning on the populace. This is typical of the BBC. They are unashamed progressivists. This is why I stopped watching their morning program. It just got too depressing getting up in the morning to hear how 'we' are all travelling much further to work, or 'we' are all living in smaller houses, or how it is somehow a good thing that 'we' are living in a sh*t-stained stresshole of a country. Notice the 'we', like we're all mates and a big happy family with old mother BBC looking after us. Give me GMTV with little Johnny and his Leukemia at ten to eight any day. You actually feel less pissed-off in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoredTrainBuilder Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5187096.stm An example from this webpage Myself and my fiancé are moving to Berlin in the not so distant future. We have purchased a house in a very nice area of Berlin for 160,000 Euros; the equivalent house and area in London would be in the region of £600,000! From an economic point of view, the German economy is still depressed so I will have to commute to London on the Monday morning (depart 06:30) and back on Thursday evening (depart 20:10). I am sure it will become tiresome but what¿s the alternative? This country has a great economy but it has got to the point where it is so expensive to live that living aboard and commuting is a realistic alternative. Especially when the healthcare and education systems are on par or better than the UK. Mark, London Says it all doesn't it! How much more fekkn ridiculous can it get?? I've been thinking about doing this for a long time, makes a lot of sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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