The boomers ate all the avocados
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Maybe not your family, but people do commute from Dorset to London. I ride with a few who either have done it or still do it. Usually staying up there for a couple of nights. The closer you go to London, the more people do that.
You have chosen to live in an expensive city to be close to your family. You're not in the office everyday from what you have said.You also want to be very close to the station. You could probably find a biggeer property a bit further away from the station for similar money.
You have made your choices, and perhaps using less aggressive language might make people more sympathetic to your views.
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Omg can we stop making this about me?
it isn’t about me is it. I’m an illustration of a problem that affects millions.
That the solution you lot offer is to not do build mors houses as that’s “impossible” but suggest commuting *across the country*, so far you must *stay the night* rather than build enough houses to live in the city you work in is remarkable. Can you even hear yourselves?
The system is screwing a whole generation.
When I talk about the US, you all cry “inequality”, but this system, as per the FT article is creating the most unequal generation we’ve seen since before the victorians. But that’s ok, right?
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But if most of the jobs are in London, most people are going to have to live near London.
Of course there are jobs in Dorset, but not enough for everyone to move there. If there were suddenly loads of jobs in Dorset, loads of people would move there and house prices would go up.
It is a choice, but a pretty restricted choice for most people.
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Eh?
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IME the variation across the country is now largely between expensive and unaffordable (for those who aren't pooling two above average salaries)
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Centralisation is a large part of the problem. I totally agree.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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Said it before, house building is booming in my area. This is a localised issue.
Centralisation housing issues are caused by services being centralised, not the other way round.
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Round and round we go...
Rick, nothing is going to change for a long time on this front so you need to find ways of being less pissed off with your lot in life.
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People move to where the jobs are. Those people need housing. Centralisation of services and jobs is part of the housing problem.
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Agree lots of houses being built is clearly a localised issue.
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True but centralisation is creating the demand and local planning is a local issue, not nationwide.
Still not a Boomer issue.
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Right now? Gen X outbidding each other. Moving for work etc, etc. Boomers in general are settled and not moving.
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Here's some of those pesky boomers from the 60s. Enjoy RC 😉
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🙂
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It sounds like envy to me, but you can dress it up how you like.
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It’s close to an hour commute from the current outer reaches of London into the centre. If you build all the housing to satisfy the needs of everyone wanting to live in London at what point does it become self-defeating?
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Are we going down the road of compulsory purchasing the houses in places like Hampstead and / or building on the green spaces within the city?
I actually agree that is the ‘perfect world’ solution but if you think people are NIMBYs when threatened with a bit of scrubby farmland getting built in how do you see it going when someone rules all houses of ‘x’ m2 per person are to be demolished and replaced with terraces?
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They built it that way to start with? Future building can be higher density obviously but that still relies on having the land to start with. Oddly we regularly hear people talking about how UK homes are so small.
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You could build a load of flats on Richmond Park and Wimbledon Common, that would up the density quite a bit.
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What cities are you referring to? I can’t think of any where large late 19th / early 20th century houses are been demolished on a large scale to make way for higher density development. In London a lot of the redevelopment of former industrial land has been more dense, a lot of European cities were rebuilt in the aftermath of WW2.
Over time I’m sure it will happen but it isn’t going to be a short term answer and you seem to want more housing NOW! What are you advocating, a communist style system of the Government taking private houses off people?
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You could build loads of flats on Hyde Park and Regents Park, I mean who needs large green spaces in Central London? Or maybe demolish all those pesky colleges taking up loads of space in the centre of Cambridge that could be used for high density housing.
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