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Subject: Social Issue challenge: Housing
You bring up an excellent point, Pascale! So is the problem then over-population in the world you think? Perhaps industrialization...so much land being used for expressways, businesses, etc? seems like this problem of lack of land is a pretty big one! and then just think about all the land that's devoted to cemetaries. I got nothing against burying the dead, but IMHO, seems like a waste of space. I wanna be cremated. I don't want my dead remains taking up space somewhere. Maybe we need to get THC & the PDA to start advocating for exploration of other planets!!! I would definitely be someone who would volunteer to live on Mars or wherever. I'll bet you would be too, Pascale. You're fearless like me!!! Pioneers. Where's our high commander??? We need a meeting. Let's see about settling on Mars or Venus or something. Who would go?? I got no problems settling on another planet. I'm an explorer. Pascale, problem is solved!!! :) Fantastic pic BTW!!!
Narnia...It's a magical place!!!!! Another world. C.S. Lewis wrote a series "The Chronicles of Narnia" for children. I'm rereading the series now!! Great for adults too! Anyway, in Narnia, if you plant something, like say a camera, it grows. Cameras literally grow on trees there!!! LOL! Plant ANYTHING and it grows!!!! And in Narnia the trees and animals talk. anyway, sometimes magical things are evil. i was just checkin!
everything talks on Venus!!!??? Cool!!! I'm just a big kid at heart, Pascale!!! That's why i'm still reading kids' books!!! the series is "similar" to "The Lord of the Rings" series...kinda/sorta. others might disagree but both series are about journeys, magic, and they both have rings in them! well, there are other similarities, but who cares!! it's gonna be warm on Venus, Pascale!!! bring plenty of swimsuits!!!!! :)
PDA here, I'll see if I can't add Venus to the flight plans girls! THC has given the nod :]
Now I see what you mean Pascale!...
told myself when I moved out here I'd never take it for granted...
this is a super, super shot... excellent entry, like the repetitive roofs*
Message edited on: 03/10/2005 00:34
Woohoo!! We're going to Venus! :D And yes Cyndi, this is the ugliest place I've ever lived to! But, fortunately, it's only temporary! Hard still though especially since we used to live in a village surrounded with fields, lakes and woods, in a spacious 4 bedroom house! We had to sell the house and move here about 5 months ago for work reasons! We hate it here, badly! Can't sleep, barely go out of the house other than for doing the grocery shopping and to go out for walks with Sam! If it wasn't for him, I would just stay in even if the house is a real rathole!! So small and completely damp!! The walls are wet and the washine machine is outside!! Yes, it's true!! It's a nightmare! We're moving at the end of April and are looking for a bigger place but we still have to stay in this area for at least another 6 months! Oh well, surely we're supposed to learn something out of this! ;)
This kinda housing is in the US too! I happen to live in what's referred to as a ROW home or the more esthetically pleasing term... Historic Townhouse! My neighborhood was built back in the early 1900 and was a factory town (look up Roebling NJ) and made the cable for some of the more famous bridges in the USA! (Brooklyn and Golden Gate) Anyways, it's not as crowded round here as the image shown above and one thing I love is there are no commercial chain stores anywhere to be seen! Pretty much all MOM & POP kinda places! I can relate to some of the other comments though! Ya hear all sorts of things goin on (insert squeakin' bed frame sound here)
Pascale, don't you guys have some RIGHTS over there??? Here, if we are renting, we have a Tenants Association. We are entitled to live in decent and safe conditions!! Wet walls produce mold and that is NOT safe. washing machine outside??? OMG???? Where i live, that would NOT be accepted. We would call the Tenants Association, and they would force the owners of the buildings to make renonvations. and they would have to pay for us to live in alternative housing until they fixed the problem. No wonder you wanna go to Venus!! Joe, i love Mom & Pop places!!! Mike, jeesh, i NEED some age treatments!!! i'm only on the 2nd book right now.
All of the houses in all of the wrong places it is an economics problem. Thousands more homes needed in the SE while whole streets lie derelict in other areas. Buy yourself a house on 'Coronation Street' for less than a used Ford. Sounds like you found yourself some pretty awful housing there Pascale.
And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies
live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to
sea in a Sieve.
Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html
Sheila: I don't know anything about tenants association but they should deal with it indeed! The thing is, they don't give a shit! We called the landlord and the agency about the problem but nothing has been done! We only have 2 months left here anyway, so we're going to stop the direct debit this month so this way we can be sure to have deposit back! We've been ripped off before! And it's definitely a health hazard! Daze: I think this is how they call them too! Not sure about the historic part though! All I know is that to live in one of these is unbearable! Onslow: LOL! We did indeed! It was an emergency measure! We had a week to find a house to rent so we took the first one we found! Oh mistake!! We've learnt our lesson! ;)
Tibby, before you leave; buy some fresh fish, knock a hole in a platerboard wall; deposit the fish inside the wall; plaster the hole back up....... or if the cupboards have the false backs slightly away from the wall, there's another place, but the wall ones will NEVER be found in a month of Sundays!!! eugh.... he he he (",) (cat food works well too - that one I would select a hollow door, drill a 1" hole in the top and squeeze a packet of cat food down there........)
LOL!! What a brilliant idea Mike!! I'm very tempted to do that actually!! O_o And Sheila, yes they are thieves! But guess what! It's cheap for England! Houses prices (rent and sale) are totally crazy over here!! That's another big problem actually! Lots of people are losing their houses cos they can't repay their mortages!
Thanks Cindy! :) I didn't explain myself good. No, not rent-to-own. what i meant to say is that you can buy a pretty fine house here in Ky, and your monthly mortgage payments (including homeowners' insurance and taxes) would be $900-1,000 a month. kemal and i had a house which we sold a few years ago, and it was only 26 years old and in a verrrrry nice neighborhood here in Louisville. and we had about 1/2 acre too. Our mortgage payments every month was between $600-700 a month (included taxes & insurance). Not bad!!! Cost of living and housing is not that expensive here. Go right across the river to Indiana and the same house would be even cheaper. Pascale, that's awful that housing is so expensive there. It is here in the states too...just depends where ya go. Mike, Kentucky Fried Chicken (not RAT) is fast food like i'm SURE you have wherever YOU come from!!!! And hey...the bucket is for TAKE OUT. If you go in to dine, you at LEAST get paper plates and plastic silverware!!!! LOL!!!! :) hey, KFC, in case you didn't know is "finger-lickin' good!" Yummmmmmmmmmy! we RARELY eat out though. we don't like fast food. and restaurant food...nah...we're MUCH better cooks!!!! Our food at home does NOT compare to even the best restaurants here in town!!!!
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No space for privacy, no space to breathe! All these houses are facing each others, u can hear everything that happens next door, both sides, snoring, peeing, farting, oh joy! And they're building even more cos there's a serious lack of homes here in the UK! I'm wondering where the hell they will find the space in a few more years! It's suffocating!