UK Property

[sunnysan]

East London

Lived there for 4 years. I don't live there anymore becuase it too is a sh1thole, no matter how much anybody wants to bandy the phrases "regeneration" and "up and coming" into the mix

IMHO, the East End of London is bad but not really comparable to the bad parts of Detroit,Baltimore,Chicago,Atlanta etc etc.

Possibly some places like Easterhouses in Glasgow compare.

Having said that, 300K for a flat in Hackney is a huge ripoff. But I would rather live in Hackney than somewhere in Detroit where houses cost $7,5 k

[Foxy Moron]

Nobody would live in the Inner cities in the 80s. It really was scum only. Although large swathes of it have been gentrified (I think it means posh people come in so the scum have someone worth robbing off), there wil always be parts that will never change.

[AlfredJPruffock]

A modest fall of only 1.2% here in Edinburgh over the last 12 months.

Good for you - last summer I lived in a wee flat in Johnston Terrace - just across from the Hub Cafe by the Royal Mile - prices there have been static.

Wha's Like Us?

Damn Few And They're A' Died!


The average Englishman in the home he call his castle slips into his national costume, a shabby raincoat, patented by Chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland.

En-route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.

He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop, Veterinary Surgeon of Dreghorn, Scotland.

At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by John Chalmers, Bookseller and Printer of Dundee, Scotland.

During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Blacksmith of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

He watches the news on television, an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland, and hears an item about the U.S. Navy founded by John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.

Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.

He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible, only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot, King James VI, who authorized its translation.

He could take to drink but the Scots make the best in the world.

He could take a rifle and end it all, but the breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick Ferguson of Pitfours, Scotland.

If he escaped death, he could find himself on an operating table injected with penicillin, discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland, and given chloroform, an anesthetic discovered by Sir James Young Simpson, Obstetrician and Gynecologist of Bathgate, Scotland.

Out of the anesthetic he would find no comfort in learning that he was as safe as the Bank of England founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.

Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask:

"Wha's Like Us?"

[Pickle2]

Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.

The footy pitch surely?

[AlfredJPruffock]

The footy pitch surely?

Do you mean the last competitve match against Scotland which England played at Wembley before they closed Wembley abd then moved out of London - lets see - oh yes it was England V Scotland .. jings I cant rememeber the scoreline - anybody help ???

[Cyberman]

Property sales are booming in CyberToryshire. I got a leaflet from my local estate agent last week asking if I wanted to sell because of unprecedented demand.

[Foxy Moron]

hence the marketing campaign

[NickNick]

He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop, Veterinary Surgeon of Dreghorn, Scotland.

And there was me thinking that was Robert William Thomson 40 years before Dunlop.


During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

And there was me thinking that it was invented by Antonio Meucci

At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Blacksmith of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

NOw this depends. Is it a ride along bike? In which case it is German, have a crank shaft? In which case it is French.

He watches the news on television, an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland,

The thing with this email is that none of it is really true and I'm getting bored of finding the counter references.