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Reasons to be cheerful 2022

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited August 2022
    Kili said:
    I know its about the rebuilding cost but, house prices here have gone bonkers. A 3 bedroom detached property here is now advertised on average at £950,000. I wouldn't have a hope in hell if I was a young man starting out here in the channel islands now of buying a home.

    Not just the channel islnads.
    The one bed, ex council flat my daughter rented in Brixton for £1,350 a month was worth £330,000. 
    If you can't afford a one bed flat, where DO young folk get on the property ladder?
    Especially if you factor in :
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-62237170
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Top marks to South West Water,  our water will be cut off tomorrow so they brought me this,  I’d rather not have had it TBH,  more plastic bottles,  I could have run ours into jugs and bottles,  but at least they brought it just in case. Would really have been rude to refuse. They know I’m  just a weak and feeble old lady😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    Hostafan1 said:
    Kili said:
    I know its about the rebuilding cost but, house prices here have gone bonkers. A 3 bedroom detached property here is now advertised on average at £950,000. I wouldn't have a hope in hell if I was a young man starting out here in the channel islands now of buying a home.

    Not just the channel islnads.
    The one bed, ex council flat my daughter rented in Brixton for £1,350 a month was worth £330,000. 
    If you can't afford a one bed flat, where DO young folk get on the property ladder?
    Especially if you factor in :
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-62237170


    Absolutely @Hostafan1. The turning of private homes into investments for the well heeled and investment companies encouraged by governments providing cheap money to the banks and ultra low interest rates is nothing short of criminal for the young people of today who have literally no chance to enjoy the chances that our generation had.

    Who's responsible?

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Love it, Lyn! Courtesy water! 
    My reason to be cheerful is that it is actually raining here! Sitting by the open window listening to it, and smelling the dampness of the ground. Hope it carries on for a while.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    We've had lots of rain, enough to run through the agapanthus pots and fill up their saucers. Hurrah.
    Devon.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Save some for us!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Nice steady , fairly heavy rain. No wind, no battering stuff about, just lovely.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Start filling the bottles @Hostafan1 … we may need to bring some home with us … 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I've just bought a 2 gallon metal watering can and 10 Kg of BFB hugely reduced in my local Homebase closing down sale.   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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