Julian Fowler wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 19:22:43 GMT, Tony Bryer
wrote:


In article , G&M wrote:

I think it's also a nadir of British society if a grotty two
bedroom terrace is London is now worth near to half a million
pounds. You can buy a five bedroom detached house, 10 acres of
land and a barn larger than that whole terrace house (upstairs
and down) within commuting distance of Manchester.

You can, and, as we repeatedly point out to IMM, people who have the
money to make such choices would, for the most part, much rather
have a poky cottage in Richmond than a barn near Manchester.


Really? Surely its the case that people think that they *have* to
live in the vicinity of the capital, because that's where all the
overpaid jobs are, that enable to people to afford ludicrous
mortgages, so that they can afford to live near the capital, etc.,
etc. I can't think of any reason why anyone would actually *want* to
live and/or work the open sewer otherwise known as London: personally,
you'd have to pay me half a million to tolerate doing either ;-)



Quite true. The stupid peasnts look at Londom salaries and imagine they
will get rich.

Well maybe, if they finally retire to a barn near Manchester, they will be.

But most people in london are simply struggling to pay the mortgage
every month.


Julian