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Originally posted by minestrone View PostYou live in a city don't you?
Most of the farming folk I know down Zomerzet way are either still living with their mums or work on an estate where rented accommodation is available. Buying a property just isn't an option on their wages."See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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Originally posted by Moscow Mule View PostNot quite, but at least I have a reasonably well paid job and can make that choice.
Most of the farming folk I know down Zomerzet way are either still living with their mums or work on an estate where rented accommodation is available. Buying a property just isn't an option on their wages.Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostFind it odd that you don't live in a village but use the term 'our villages'. You sound very much like a city dweller that 'knows what is best' for the country.Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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Originally posted by Moscow Mule View PostNot quite, but at least I have a reasonably well paid job and can make that choice.
Most of the farming folk I know down Zomerzet way are either still living with their mums or work on an estate where rented accommodation is available. Buying a property just isn't an option on their wages.
Subsidised housing is another option, there are a bunch of these schemes around - though some are fiercely resisted. The reality however is that these sorts of housing only store up problems for later, trapping their occupants.Comment
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Buying a house with a Burger King burger flipping wage will not get you anything anywhere either, town or country, where does this sympathy for people who get "agricultural wages" come from?
The people who desecrated these houses will not be honest workers, they will be unemployed vandals, high on jealousy, low on income, please don't give them an excuse with your romantic image of the countryside gained from a Constable print that you used to have in your house wall in the 80sLast edited by minestrone; 16 March 2009, 20:04.Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostBuying a house with a Burger King burger flipping wage will not get you anything anywhere either, town or country, where does this sympathy for people who get "agricultural wages" come from?
The people who desecrated these houses will not be honest workers, they will be unemployed vandals, high on jealousy, low on income, please don't give them an excuse with your romantic image of the countryside gained from a Constable print that you used to have in your house wall in the 80sComment
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostDo you want some vinegar?Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostFind it odd that you don't live in a village but use the term 'our villages'. You sound very much like a city dweller that 'knows what is best' for the country.
Originally posted by minestrone View PostBuying a house with a Burger King burger flipping wage will not get you anything anywhere either, town or country, where does this sympathy for people who get "agricultural wages" come from?
I don't agree with vandalising new homes - some people are very misguided - but to dismiss their concerns is wrong."See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostYou would love the country, there are plenty of goats there.
I don't like goats.Comment
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