K-Hole
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Yeah.
tl;dr too many people, not enough available housing.
Bongland has had a known housing crisis now for several decades. Nothing gets done. Too many people who make too much money by flipping property (even though bricks and mortar is always touted as being a 'bad investment'). Prices just keep going up.
A working adult in the late 70's could afford to buy their own property with a few years of hard work. That's pretty much outright, but certainly with the average mortgage at that time. Many did. But each successive decade has seen the real value of money depreciate. Today, you got no hope, not even as a keyworker.
Anarchy and anarcho-tyranny rule the day for many in places like London (which is a whole economy unto itself, not even accounting for the City Of London). And White Flight that took place from the capital starting as early as the late 70's even, has just accelerated exponentially from there. Pretty soon there will only be aristocracy and stokebrokers and movers and shakers on one side of the fence, and fucking nogs on mopeds who live in high-rise shit holes on the other, trying to mug them the moment they walk out of their front door. Everyone else in the middle will have been squeezed out. This only gets faster from here on out.
When I moved to London I knew I was taking a big risk. But today, to do that, you'd have to be fucking nuts. Wages are shit. Cost of living is through the roof. Quality of life compares to the great Rat experiment by Calhoun. "Oh what a rat race... Oh what a rat raiiice...." sang Bob Marley.
Quite.
Where I now live in a more quieter part of the country, there has also been flight here from London. I can spot it in the accents. It's not just Kent and Essex that have picked up the slack. In fact, there are people that have come from fucking Essex in flight down to here.
So why suffer in London with no prospects, being looked down upon by everyone you come in to contact with? Sure, if you're young and in a band, and you got the looks and the 'game' you can make bank for a few years somewhere like London where the girlies and ladies from all over the world flock for their little jollies. You might get to up your notch count night after night. But it's not a sustainable long term living plan.
As a keyworker, you will still have skills necessary in other parts of bongland and you will have better quality of life over all. As the Russians and the sandniggers buy up whatever is left of Mayfair and Kensington, pushing everyone ever further out and driving up property prices in places as far a field as fucking Camden, well, what hope do you have. Rat, here is a sinking ship. "Should I stay or should I go", sang The Clash.
Quite.
The population of the UK has risen by 3.5 million people in the last decade.
- Population in England and Wales has swelled by 3.5million in past decade to a record level of nearly 60million
- With 11.1million now over age 65 — one in six — there are more old people than children for first time in history
- Concerns trend will close schools and push up immigration to fill job vacancies as result of ageing population
And there's plenty more where that came from. Projections for another couple of million on top!
UK population growth over next decade driven by arrival of 2.2million immigrants as Britain's aging population sees deaths outnumber births by 59,000 by 2030
The people arriving here are housed all over the country, but they are predominantly housed in places like London and surrounding counties after making their little trip here with their iPhones in their little rubber dinghies.
So that's a lot more people sucking resources. But of course, we need them to do the jobs that brits won't do and brit employers won't pay the wages for.
I'm doing the odd bit of voluntary work helping people keep their heads above water as they battle the corrupt councils. Dealing with people who hardly speak fucking English. Yet they have the 'housing'. I'm talking about the people working for the council. The ones I try to help? These girls have cancer, broken backs, BPD/Bi-Polar and are housed in one bedroom shitholes at the rate of over 1000 GBP a month, for a fucking room that does not even have its own door with fucking crack heads and junkies wandering through in the middle of the night to ask for a fucking 'rollie'. Let's not PL any more than that.
Basically, the land of the Bong is a corrupt shithole worthy of contempt compared to any banana republic. At least you know where you stand in Jamaica or Haiti. Or Brazil or Argentina.
So of course, everyone has been getting the fuck out of Dodge while they can, if they can. This whole scenario has been envisioned for many decades past.
More immigrants who just degrade and sap the system.
More rich oligarchs allowed to buy up whole swathes of whatever property.
No new housing being built.
Housing that is available is not maintained as it is owned by Nigerian Slum landlords who rent it back to the council for 'vulnerable' tenants, who will be there for years and years even with physical disabilities.
Those that have the nouse to realise what is going on and the means to get the fuck out, do just that.
It's a ship. And you are a Rat!
And if you have to question whether you are the Rat or the Rat-Catcher, then you are the Rat!
Meanwhile, in the rest of the country, people fucking off from London come here hoping to get away from it all. They never get a warm welcome. People born in these towns and these villages can't get jobs, can't get affordable housing and have to move away to mid-level shit hole towns just to survive. It's a form of emotional torture watching your relatives have to go through this kind of decay at their vulnerable time of life. But if you aren't rich, you will be atomised, deracination will take place and you WILL be privvy to the problems of SCALE.
House prices will keep going up. They will never come back down until the collapse happens, then it's all bets off for anyone who owns any kind of property. Probably best not to be living in it when that happens as well.
So many years of neglect. So many years of milking the system. So many years of "Selling England by the Pound", as Genesis once sang.
Quite.
or someone to really believe in me.
