Small developments

[nod]

I was chatting to a couple of developers locally Both doing two house developments Each house seams to be around 3-400 m2 Both seam to be around 14-1500 m2 build costs Plots have settled at around £230k ish I was surprised that there are at least as many of these going up as before the interest rate hike 

I asked if they had had much interest and was told 3 had sold and the other was imminent 

Which got me wondering Is the financial turmoil effecting the better off 

[JohnMo]

Is really affected as many as the press would make out. Restaurants are full, supermarkets are full of people, huge amounts of cars on the road.  Amazon can justify delivery on Sundays, so must be selling plenty.

[SteamyTea]

6 minutes ago, JohnMo said:

Restaurants are full

Down my way there are now a lot less restaurants.

7 minutes ago, JohnMo said:

Supermarkets are full

But selling more own brand and discount products.

[nod]

9 minutes ago, JohnMo said:

Is really affected as many as the press would make out. Restaurants are full, supermarkets are full of people, huge amounts of cars on the road.  Amazon can justify delivery on Sundays, so must be selling 

Is the media to blame for much of this Inparticular the BBC seam to be championing this Like they did with horror story’s about Covid and Wirld War 3 

[JohnMo]

I think the press just look for or make out the world is going end now -  everything is extreme. Listened to a news article the other day about mortgage rates and how loads of people are having to sell their homes... The interviewee let it slip that only landlords in his experience were choosing to sell, not general home owners.

[scottishjohn]

all news channels and interviewers hypeeverything to the limit and beyond 

not just bbc -but all of them 

need alot of bullshit to fill the news slots we now have  in all the different media channels 

so they just pad it out and keep repeating same things 

its called brain washing 

 

[nod]

48 minutes ago, JohnMo said:

I think the press just look for or make out the world is going end now -  everything is extreme. Listened to a news article the other day about mortgage rates and how loads of people are having to sell their homes... The interviewee let it slip that only landlords in his experience were choosing to sell, not general home owners.

The problem with landlords selling is that it’s not other landlords or tenants that are buying It seams to be young couples moving from mum and dads 

Looking to get a bargain 

 

Tenants need protection and landlords also 

[ToughButterCup]

Take the Long View. 

To try and take my own advice , I now ignore the daily press (almost: apart from R4 natch) and read at media like  Unherd , The Atlantic , Tortoise Media , The London Review of Books , Conservative Home , The Socialist Worker and Private eye  .

 

Once a month I make myself look at this (I can't bear to name it, so you'll have to click or guess) . I have to go for a long bike ride to cleanse my system afterwards. Yuk, yuk, yuk.  All the more important for me to read it because I disagree with so much of its output.

[saveasteading]

1 hour ago, ToughButterCup said:

Once a month I make myself look at

Yes I agree  it is important to know that many people you meet will agree with this, either instinctively or moulded by its influence.

Also  to see that another chunk of the nation mostly want to know more about Diana.

 

I miss the chance to see the Sun and Star in the site huts.....clearly telling their readers how to vote, and whk to hate,  mixed with childerns comic content . I was employing these people!

 

[SteamyTea]

7 hours ago, ToughButterCup said:

I now ignore the daily press

I was reading the Bucks Free Press and these two stories caught my eye.

 

I may have solved a serious crime.

 

[SteamyTea]

5 hours ago, saveasteading said:

I miss the chance to see the Sun and Star in the site huts

I worked Sundays.