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There seems to be plenty of house building going on around where I live. Ex mining area so I’ve seen some extensive subsidence damage! In brand new houses. There has also been quite a lot of BtL antagonistic policies as well, such as changes in taxation approach and the EPC requirements. BtL...

Events dear boy, events. Not boomers fault per se, we lived through and responded to different sets of events.

I put culmination of policy. I expect that Thatcher’s right to buy didn’t help either with any of it. Ultimately house prices will reflect supply and demand, increased population has occurred. Supply has been limited in part by concerns about bats and great crested newts. Put human beings...

How much on the left hand side is / was culmination of Blair government policy including net million immigration competing for housing? Plus encouraging university education for “everyone”,at a cost even when it may not really be in their best interests? I don’t want or need your cheap...

Covid vaccine very different kettle of fish but damned by many to the point of falsifying certificates.

It’s the ignoring these things as contributing to standard of living. They might not be how you would like your standard of living to be improved but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an improvement.

MalcSB

TBH, sounds shit.

Perhaps why the lending criteria have been tightened up.

Poor, but presumably an enabler for WFH so got to be worth it. How much time and fuel does it save you with not needing to commute to office every day?

Don’t you see that inventions improving quality of life are improving standards of living. It’s the denial of this that I think makes these things a bit catnippy. 50 years ago I wouldn’t have wanted to be contacted out of the blue, 24/7 via a mobile phone.

I got a ferry to France and came back, but on another ferry. Got none of those things at the time.

There is, not that enthralling though so I can multi task, (well, duo task as can you by the looks of it). it’s a lot of extra money to find with little or no warning. My mortgage went up to £1300 pcm or so when the 15% came in in late 80s early 90s. A huge percentage of my take home pay.

Aggregate score. Had to think about it at the time.

Nobody was

Sadly true.

FFS

He wants a goal, he has read this thread.

I wish Sky would shut the fuck up about Robins.

Eccles doesn’t get the credit for just how often he pops up and does that.