ridiculous house prices

[academe]

Originally Posted by dkzzzz

NYC is cheap!!!!
These prices in London are understandable, where else can you have a life in England...

Don't be a douche bag.

Have you ever been to Britain? There are plenty of other places worth living, other than London. Based on my own experiences, I'd say the average major city (e.g., York, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, etc.) in the UK has a more interesting cultural life than any city in the US, with the possible exceptions of NYC, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco.

 

[dkzzzz]

Originally Posted by academe

Don't be a douche bag.

Have you ever been to Britain? There are plenty of other places worth living, other than London. Based on my own experiences, I'd say the average major city (e.g., York, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, etc.) in the UK has a more interesting cultural life than any city in the US, with the possible exceptions of NYC, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco.
As oppose to you I have lived in London and Boston. There is ONLY one similarity between these two cities it is general ugliness of people inhabiting them. English province is a horrible place to live if you lived in NYC, Moscow, London, France or Italy. It all depends on your comparison references, dimbulb.

 

[LabelKing]

It's ironic given that those expensive townhouses used to be solidly middle-class homes.

 

[zupermaus]

yep alot of the mansions in areas such as Notting Hill were, in the Twentieth Century subdivided up into tenements housing the poorest workers and immigrants with whole families to a room. By the 1980s these areas were very slowly starting to re-convert back into row mansions.

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

It's ironic given that those expensive townhouses used to be solidly middle-class homes.
That was before the lax immigration laws were implemented. And I don't mean that the poor huddled masses caused this, not at all, I mean the neuve riche Russians. Jon.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by imageWIS

That was before the lax immigration laws were implemented. And I don't mean that the poor huddled masses caused this, not at all, I mean the neuve riche Russians. Jon.
I meant when they were originally built. This house, while comfortably large, would not have been an upper class home.

 

[zupermaus]

Yep just one of thousands in a row. Now however the land it sits on, despite it being no different a building from other places in suburbia, is worth gold dust.

 

[academe]

Originally Posted by dkzzzz

As oppose to you I have lived in London and Boston. There is ONLY one similarity between these two cities it is general ugliness of people inhabiting them.
I wasn't making any assumption about where you've lived, so I would kindly ask you not to do the same. Hence, my question if you'd ever been to the UK. Prior to moving to the UK, I lived in San Francisco, Berkeley and Chicago - so I do have grounds for what I'm saying.

Originally Posted by dkzzzz

English province is a horrible place to live if you lived in NYC, Moscow, London, France or Italy. It all depends on your comparison references, dimbulb.
Of course it's dependent on your frame of reference. I'll grant you that it might seem that many of the smaller British cities are less interesting than major metro areas like NYC, Paris, London, Moscow, LA, etc. but if you were to compare a smaller regional capital in the US such as Portland, OR, Milwaukee, WI or Phoenix, AZ to somewhere like Edinburgh, Glasgow or York, I'd take any of those British cities over the American ones. Based on my own experiences living on both sides of the Atlantic, in Asia, as well as Latin America, the British cities are far more interesting. I called you out because I strongly believe you're doing the UK a disservice with your snide little jibes.

 

[academe]

Originally Posted by zupermaus

Yep just one of thousands in a row. Now however the land it sits on, despite it being no different a building from other places in suburbia, is worth gold dust.

So what exactly is the point of this thread, other than pointing out that London is expensive?

 

[KBW]

This is ridiculous. Here where I live you can have a 6 or 7 thousand square foot home with a rock or marble swimming pool on two acres for 6 or 700 K in a very nice area...the area is very nice and growing and there's zero ghetto. I guess that is why we have thousands of people every year moving here to retire from up north or from inner cities. Basically in the US all you have to do for a "retirement plan" is work and live in a big city and then move down south to a nice little suburb and you'll have more than enough to live forever on.

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by KBW

This is ridiculous. Here where I live you can have a 6 or 7 thousand square foot home with a rock or marble swimming pool on two acres for 6 or 700 K in a very nice area...the area is very nice and growing and there's zero ghetto. I guess that is why we have thousands of people every year moving here to retire from up north or from inner cities. Basically in the US all you have to do for a "retirement plan" is work and live in a big city and then move down south to a nice little suburb and you'll have more than enough to live forever on.

Sheer curiosity: where do you live?

Jon.

 

[academe]

Originally Posted by KBW

This is ridiculous. Here where I live you can have a 6 or 7 thousand square foot home with a rock or marble swimming pool on two acres for 6 or 700 K in a very nice area...the area is very nice and growing and there's zero ghetto. I guess that is why we have thousands of people every year moving here to retire from up north or from inner cities. Basically in the US all you have to do for a "retirement plan" is work and live in a big city and then move down south to a nice little suburb and you'll have more than enough to live forever on.
Where do you live? Prices in the San Francisco Bay Area, for example, aren't as high as they are in London, but for US$600,000 to 700,000 the most you'll get is a 2-3 bedroom house in a "transitional" area (i.e., it's being gentrified and the ghetto isn't too far away). One of our friends who lives near the Embarcadero in San Francisco just bought a studio apartment for US$300,000; another friend who lives in the Lake Merritt area in Oakland just bought a 1 bedroom place for ~US$320,000. Strikes me that where you're living is not very expensive...

 

[SoCal2NYC]

Isn't the $128 million house the home of that Indian family who had their daughter's wedding at Versailles?

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by SoCal2NYC

Isn't the $128 million house the home of that Indian family who had their daughter's wedding at Versailles?

Yes, Mittal.

He was a member for a while

Jon.

 

[LabelKing]

Who was the original owner of the Mittal mansion?