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pcernie
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Oh, the irony: Amazon's opening a book store | TechRadar http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of- ... re-1308094That's gotta be some sort of experiment. _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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Paul1965
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Just seen on YouTube that the John Lewis Christmas Advert for 2015 has nearly six million views one day after it launched. Does anyone else find it odd that so many people would voluntarily choose to waste their time watching an advertisement which you'll find it hard to avoid on TV anyway? Plus it is way too early for Christmas advertising anyway.
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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I'm not at all surprised people are curious about something which (I admit I have no idea how this has happened...) seems to have become a news story all of itself.
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John_Vella
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I agree entirely. In other, totally unrelated news, HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW DURACELL AD! It's brilliant!_________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry  I'll behave now. Promise 
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pcernie
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That's genius  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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jonbwfc
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pcernie
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Was she given that information on a bad line or something? lol _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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| Sat Nov 07, 2015 11:28 pm |
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pcernie
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Man reportedly has hand cut off during night out in Essex | UK news | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... hton-essex _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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jonbwfc
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First batch of flats in old BBC TV Centre sell out£650K for a one bed flat that's not even available to be lived in until 2017. if you wanted a perfect illustration of how f*cked up the London property market is...
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oceanicitl
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That seems very reasonable for a flat in a unique iconic building in the middle of White City _________________Still the official cheeky one
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bobbdobbs
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I think that is his point. It's now reasonable for a 1 bedroom flat to go for that price _________________Finally joined Flickr
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oceanicitl
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That's nothing new though _________________Still the official cheeky one
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TheFrenchun
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to be fair, the flats in that development are marketed to foreigners to park money, the prices are not representative of White city. It's a shame that very few local people will be able to move there.
Notting hill and Ladbroke grove is a lot more expensive, you're talking millions for a 1 bed flat.
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Spreadie
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Meh, commute and have a mortgage a quarter of that.
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jonbwfc
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 Which just shows you how crazy the situation is for that to be considered 'reasonable'. A one bed flat at £650K requires someone to be earning (according to the Nationwide's mortgage calculator, other ones are available) roughly £100K a year to get a mortgage to pay for that, with a significant deposit. A deposit, by the way, which would buy you a one bed flat outright in most other major cities in Britain. How many single people are earning £100K a year? Also, these flats aren't liveable for two years. Therefore anyone buying one also has somewhere else to live already. So we're talking about someone who effectively has (for the sake of argument) 'the amount of money a £500K mortgage costs' to spare each month on top of whatever they're currently paying for wherever they are currently living. So we're basically talking about someone earning the best part of a quarter of a million a year. what percentage of the population is that? This is not normal or reasonable. When property is ludicrously priced and is nevertheless still being used as a short term investment opportunity, that's not a good sign.
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