It's not a technical point, it's a troll post. Get back under your bridge.
Housing market
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Mike Reed
pfm Member
No kings of North America in those days, Darren. 'All the Presidents' Men', I think.
I had a feeling I was on the housing thread but had to check. Thread creep in keeping with good old pfm traditions but the transition from domestic housing to the old wild west passed me by.
MVV
pfm Member
There is a funny thing that happens when you get to about 65, you start worrying about leaving stuff to your children. All my adult life I've thought they are intelligent and confident they can make their own way. Now I'm worrying about if £150000 each will be enough!
Then you get into denial, I mean how long do you think you will live? 10 years will be a bonus.
Then you get into denial, I mean how long do you think you will live? 10 years will be a bonus.
Darren L
Egalitarian
No president until 30th April 1789, colonisation started in the early 16th century, ignoring earlier stories of discovery by the Norse, Columbus 'discovered' the Americas in 1492.
Mike Reed
pfm Member
Spare a thought for all those Egyptian children who are frequently in de Nile. (Actually, Sudanese as well, I s'pose).
Oh dear! A historical discussion; we must put our house in order ! My schoolboy history says that the first permanent eastern colonial settlement was in 1620 (C17th). Other before that further north didn't last. The Spaniards made some inroads to the south-west, possibly earlier (and Florida even earlier?). However, the main thrust westward didn't start until the earlier part of the C19th, culminating in the vast migration, assisted by railways, after the civil war.
The eastern tribes' history (Pocahontas, Gravesend, etc.) wasn't like the massacres which occurred in the C19th and they often sided/fought with either the British, the revolutionaries or, previously, the French. I'm sure I'll be corrected here. !
paulfromcamden
Baffled
Ponty
pfm Member
Thanks. All clear, phew. First class GP and consultant.
My parents are the same. They have recently had an outbreak of common sense and booked a big expensive cruise around Scandinavia and Iceland, something like 19 nights IIRC. Good, crack on. Have a nice time.
mandryka
pfm Member
I think this is quite a common thing - both your mum's behaviour and how you feel. I certainly felt the same about mine.
Looking back I'm sure my own parents got quite depressed in their dotage and the period which led up to it, both of them. And that led to them just being unable to really enjoy themselves. Low self esteem maybe too. Certainly they had no interest in buying a Ferrari or going on a cruise. I wonder, with a certain amount of personal terror, whether depression born of illness, disappointment, regret and a perception of meaninglessness and the void, is a real common phenomenon in old age. They would never admit depression of course, not to me or anyone, because of their generation's stigmatisation of mental health problems.
On that cheerful note I will now have another glass of Riccitelli merlot.
Minio
Kind of Sort of Not really...
Just highlighting the possibility that people lacking a home are less likely to be registered to vote on housing development policy due to lack of enfranchisement.
Democracy not perfect.
Never has been. However when I didn't have a home of my own I registered at my parents' address. Most people in that situation do, unless they do live under a bridge.
Even in a shared house or a mate's spare room, you have an address.
Minio
Kind of Sort of Not really...
Fair enough.
It depends on the definition of homelessness.
The extreme being living on the street where you have no say in anything.
You can vote from your mate's sofa address. If I were having to sleep on a mate's sofa voting wouldn't be my biggest problem. Same goes, even more so, for if I were sleeping in a dorrway.
hifinutt
hifinutt
Leasehold company driving us bonkers trying to get a deed of variation . they wanted proof of address so we sent a service charge notice with address on. nope not good enough
then we sent a BT bill , nope not good enough
then we sent a water bill .... you guessed it ... this is all taking months and not acceptable in my opinion .. no wonder the rules need updating
then we sent a BT bill , nope not good enough
then we sent a water bill .... you guessed it ... this is all taking months and not acceptable in my opinion .. no wonder the rules need updating
Ponty
pfm Member
Indeed, it’s all great until the music stops. Which tends to have a habit of doing so at the most inconvenient time. As they say, don’t count your chips whilst sat at the table. Rates aren‘t going to come down very much as some hope. Markets have got ahead of themselves IMHO. Some banks have actually just increased their mortgage rates. There are some who think the feds next move will be upward. And where the fed leads, the BoE follows.
You can get circa 5.3% on money market funds right now. What equity risk premium do you need to give that up to potentially find yourself on the wrong side of a black swan? As always, diversification, and that includes resi property on a small island with an ever increasing population. Housing supply simply won’t keep up with the number of people seeking it.
hifinutt
hifinutt
World's biggest 3D printer whirs into action
It's hoped giant device will be able to print homes, bridges, boats and wind turbines.
www.bbc.co.uk
A giant 3D printer, which is big enough to make a house, has been unveiled at the University of Maine.
The university says it has beaten its own record for the world's largest polymer 3D printer - with the new printer four times bigger than the previous machine.
The Factory of the Future 1.0 (FoF 1.0) can print objects 96ft (29m) long - approximately the length of a blue whale.
FoF 1.0's record-breaking predecessor, external built a bungalow as a prototype, but the hope is to help solve Maine's housing shortage with the new FoF 1.0.
It also used wood as a material which was fed into the manufacturing process.
The university says the two printers can work together in manufacturing the same object too.
It has long been hoped that 3D printing will transform manufacturing, both large and small scale.
There already exists a technology to pump concrete into some kind of moving frame and build walls in a very similar fashion to a 3d printer. I do think that the current fascination with the 3d printer is rather excessive. Don't get me wrong, they are brilliant for one off and short run items, but for any number of applications mature technologies like CNC and laser profiling are vastly better and already automated.
davidsrsb
pfm Member
Until another virus comes along with a higher mortality rate than COVID. Bird flu might do it.