Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

cynic is completely right. Farming communities lived at or close to the poverty line. They had huge families of which only a few survived. As the industrial revolution came along life expectancy was increasing. In particular infant mortality was improving fast. The result was that rural populations migrated to the cities as their local environment could not support all the children in families. As prosperity in the towns and cities improved, people went to the cities to work in service. In every area of London and similar cities every large house had servants. There were hundreds of thousands in service. A butcher might have a family of say 6 and a couple of servants. The two world wars killed off service. Those in service stayed in the cities and needed their own housing. Since that period housing has always been short.

The situation has been made much worse by the influx of immigrants who typically have large families again. There is a major shortage of housing because we have a population that is too big. It creates a strain on services such as schooling,GPs, hospitals.

If you want a job go to a major city.

cynic
What is the local opinion where you are regarding the Iran nuclear deal?

What and camp in hide park? You are also talking nonsense H/S... this 2013 not 1813.

Is this what our troop's have been fighting for ?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/25/stoning-afghanistan-adultery_n_4336304.html

If you want a job then come to London and stay in a hostel temporarily for a few days while you look for a job.

Why don't you, as you obviously need to get out more.

I live in London. Don't you know anyone who could put you up in a city, that's if you are looking for a job. I am semi retired.

Is gf still in the pub?

Been there done it, Filthy place full of pollution.

where's that stan?
the pub?

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opinion over here re the iran deal is that it will be very good for business.

no one gives a fig for the predictable response from Israel, though that may be more for domestic consumption that anything else

North, Central and West, The Pub's in Nunhead, South.

nunhead?
does that date back to the time of the black death (1348-52) and the migration of the remains of the population
wasn't that even earlier than the industrial revolution? :-)


time to adjourn for some very good steak and red wine
glad it's not my wallet paying :-)

Scrounger alert!

What sort of steak and where from? Maybe camel steak?

A glass of red wine in Dubai - ouch, very expensive.

Not for Alf it's not -):

Cynic,

You really are an idiot with similar traits to the present spivs in the cabinet at the moment who believe in short term gains and are shouting about planning but not looking past the ends of their noses.

Re-read Post 33269

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Sure the price of housing depends on demand, and sure where there is wealth and high employment prices will be high.

But it would seem wiser and preferable to disperse some of the employment and work out of London and give companies and workers incentives to do so.

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It would be better if companies moved out of Love neon. It has been tried before and companies don't want to go. When I had a company in London, I would not have moved.

Hays.

I am quite content for you to stay in London.

amazing - well not really

i think fred's view of the world is, shall we say unworldly, so in his eyes i'm an idiot
fine by me, but i really care not one iota ..... at least i live in the real world and not in some make-believe wannabe utopia

so do i think fred is an idiot?
no; merely a delusionary

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hays - 95% of steaks here are (dull) grain fed cattle, so i opted for short ribs and a bottle of ok rioja at silly money (as always) ..... and no, my own wallet was not suffering