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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Although for context, as of June this year

UK average house prices have increased by 24.2% (£55,880) since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.twindig.com/market-views/latest-average-uk-regional-house-prices

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Well regarded.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Return of the Obra Dinn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

And doctors & dentists will still legally be able to use laughing gas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Female" as an adjective isn't the problem. The problem is "female" as a noun.

You can describe a person as being female all you like, but if you start calling them "a female" & defined purely in terms of the existence of their sex organs, you're in the wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, I've seen the screenshot. Eh. It's a gross post, and apparently OP acted like twat; I won't lose sleep over it not getting attention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

All the top posts on r/askwomennocensor seem to be women complaining about how the sub is overrun with men asking for dating tips, with the mods stating in a thread 16 days ago:

We remove a thing, and suddenly we get called fascist, tyrant, "chronically online," etc., and members wildly upvote those public callouts.

Yall gotta decide if yall want "fascist tyrants" or to be plagued with inane incel questions. We remove a dating question? "Tyrants!" We let it go? "Why is this sub so trashy?"

As one redditor notes:

I know this sub was created because the other asksubs have so many rules. But this is unfortunately one of the reasons why so many rules exist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A lot of damage has already been done in terms of brain drain to the continent. I never got the impression that the Brexit gang understood it isn't just about money; it's about the ease of collaboration. As if British research, unique among the world, didn't derive benefit from collaboration.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Correct. Well, not all the work week. One person will sleep in it Monday-Thursday. Maybe Friday if it's a heavy one.

ETA: Rest of the family will be living in a separate house outside the Home Counties where the schools are better.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

They increase the overall cost of both buying and renting a property within that market, and are a nuisance for existing residents.

Historically -- in the UK, at least -- the market equilibrium has been that the rich own all the property and the poor pay rent until they die, aware that they can be served an eviction notice at any time.

This has not proven to be a popular policy. In 1918 all British men, regardless of whether they owned property or not, got the vote, and since then politicians have found it useful to not have the majority of voters perpetually furious about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some people own more than one house, and perpetually rent those properties out via sites like Airbnb.

So we have:

  • Buying a property that you don't intend to live in, so that you can rent it out to other people as a short term let.

  • Buying a property that you live in, and occasionally renting out a spare room as a short-term let while you continue to occupy the property.

These are not the same.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It goes for £2000 a month ($2500) and is in Zone 1, a 25 minute stroll from the London Stock Exchange. You aren't going homeless if you have £2000 a month to spend on rent, and Zone 2 is one stop away on the Jubilee line. You're moving to Zone 2/3, or moving into a flatshare. Or out of London.

Given the location, pricing and finish I suspect it's more likely to be used as a pied a terre -- a second (weekday) home -- for someone in the City.

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