On 19/11/2017 10:12, Fredxxx wrote:

On 19/11/2017 03:58, JNugent wrote:
On 19/11/2017 00:46, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Â*Â*Â* JNugent wrote:
On 18/11/2017 14:53, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Â*Â*Â*Â* JNugent wrote:

Around here you couldn't get a shed for £65K and average earnings
are around the same.

And the moral of this story is...
...go north, young man. And get on the ladder.

Ah - right. So those excellent value houses can be bought close to
where well paid work is available? So much for the North/South divide.

sigh
The discussion was about *average* property prices and an assertion
that everyone in the UK has been disadvantaged by increases in them.
The assertion has been undermined by a few awkward facts.

The fact that houses are cheap in areas where there is little well paid
work to be had?

Goal-posts shifted While-U-Wait?

Is that an admission there is "little well paid work to be had"?

How could it be, when in the same area, there are houses at a million
pounds?

It's simply that houses start at lower prices. In effect, terraced
houses in the north are still fulfilling their intended original purpose
(housing the working and lower middle classes for the main part) instead
of housing professionals, Surrey-style, or second-home owners, West
Country style.