I also recalled her beoing a new yorker. The accent sounded to me like new yorker/jewish extraction,. and the ghastly hair, lipstick and general brazeness and stupidity did nothing to change my mind.
Greek women are mostly sane, often intelleigent, and usually have execllent manners, and occasionally very beautiful.
None of thse qualities was diplayed by Ms Harridan.
Still running strong here. Now has cash machine and petrol station as well.
We calculated its cost relative to 'going into town'. At 30p a mile that is around £6 the trip. 10% uplift on prices means you have to spend more than 60 quid to make it worthwhile...
And its not teh only one around. Next village buy two has excellent post pofficfe and general stoires, there is excellent asian run store in the other direction...
Did you stay in and stare at the walls?
Just as well you are away from other people.
Well she showed no Jewish inclinations towards conserving cash.
You are such fun. Games as well.
I think you might have one "t" too many in that sentence. But I'll leave it as an exercise for you to work out which one is superfluous :^)
Cheers Clive
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Yes, more's the pity.
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Yes.
Yes. Except in this case they haven't done the sums, and don't realise it.
Most people are in london because that is where the highest paid jobs are. Or sometimes ANY jobs are. Or because they were born there, and haven't a clue how to get away.
In et 50's people began to commute. My parents moved to what was then outsiie london, but my father still worked 'in town'
That process continyued until the originally quite rural home counties now resmble contiguous suburbia. Ther is very little true countryside left in teh home counties, except right off the communication corridoors.
As communiactions got better and worse, so other areas opend up - or clsed down, and now people live in Oxford, Cambridge, Colchester. Norwich and so on, and work in the city.
They are willing to trade 4 hours a day travelling for the privilege of NOT having to bring their kids up in London.
Its all going pear shaped because nwo the actual fact is that altho london is teh place where the work is, no one wants to live there, and it takes about 5 times the workers as it has space to house them, and in any case its so larger that on average each person who lives and works in london still does an hour or more commute anyway...
The answer is to simply move the work out, and the people back to thise northern towns where they came from oin the 50's and give london back to teh few people who actually want to be there.
Its actually happening, as people realise that places like manchetser and Leeds have better club scenes, places like Oxford and Cambridge have better book shops, places like Lesicester have better asian stores, places like little potton under marsh have spaces for children to play and low crime rates...and indeed, there is as much of a life to be had if not more, stacking shelves there than dealing dodgy bonds in teh city...if you are not too greedy...
Its all in flux, its all changing. London is disintegrating
because it is EXPENSIVE. It is no longer value for money
in any sense except that people think it IS.
And that game is teh boom and bust game. If firms simplyopen up elsewhere, london will empty and prices come crashing down.
But contains 10% of the population of the UK.
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And 90% live elsewhere and hate the place.
Well, there are considerable areas of Scotland that are definitely unsuitable for numerous reasons. Look at the 225 sq km centred on NO 019
979, 225 sq km centred on NH 124 342, 225 sq km centred on NC 717 249, 225 sq km centred on SH 752 296, etc, etc...Cheers Clive
More like any jobs.
A recent survey said that the home counties were underpopulated. There is tons of land thee, tons of it. Only in the commuting corridors is it built, and as people tend to use these it gives the wrong impression.
I was in an estate agents office in Herefordshire a few years ago and the woman there was bitching about new houses being built in each village, griping they will all merge into one. They had a large Ordnance survey map on the wall of the area. It looked at it and it was just all green. I pointed to the centre of the largest green area, where a rail line went through, and said build another large village there well away from everyone and out of sight, it can look like an old one if you like. She looked at me in a confused way. People are conditioned that this mass of low productive fields should not be built on. Propaganda over the years has instilled this into them. In fact about three decent sized new villages could have been built in the area well away from all the other villages and towns. Even the traffic could have been directed away from them.
Very true.
The problem is that the power base is in the rural south. The Midlands and north of England catapulted this world forwards with the industrial revolution, with the south being mainly rural market towns. They are not stupid at all and should be allowed to run their own affairs again. The north allowed the south to gasp power. London is arrogant calling the counties that border it the "home£" counties, while the others are away and don't matter. The UK started to decline when the north lost power, politically and economically to the naive rural south. Tony's regional assemblies will redress some of the imbalance.
Modern comms mean you don't need to be in London any more, or most of your operation does not.
Nonsense. Towns can be even built up the side Ben Nevis, as they are in the Alps. There is lots of open moorland that towns can be built on. Only flood plains prevent building. Very little of the UK cannot be built on.
Ben Nevis isn't in the Alps.
Clearly not. Unless you add the word "should" to your sentence.
Christian.
Sure - you can build there - but then you have to have jobs to support the population, and services need to be provided. There WOULD be tons more people in northwest Scotland, if they could find ways to make a living there. That's one of the reasons I have family members scattered all over the world - they found it difficult (if not impossible) to make a living in the north.
Sheila Upper Melness Sutherland
Excuse me for asking, but where is "round here"?
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Yep.
No chance. With the stamp duty limit at £500k nobody will offer more until the property is worth nearly £600k. Same at £250k. If your house is worth less than £300k you'll only get offers at £250k.
Greek American perhaps ?
That's exactly what I remember from my erstwhile colleague! She was the best looking girl in the company.
MM
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