I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
Oh Charles. For £12.5m you could buy something like 50 fairly decent houses (not as nice as that one admittedly) in Dundee. A house like that would be £500k tops.
My point was he’s chosen the biggest house in Richmond to illustrate how expensive it is.
One of my team has just bought a house in the area. Slightly over £1.2m.
London is expensive, that’s just the way it is. But he was being very misleading
£1.2m?
I know that will only get one a cupboard under the stairs in Carlton Hill, St Johns Wood or a car parking space in Mayfair, but it is hardly modest.
The man on the Clapham Omnibus speaks...again.
One of my favourites is that the hovel that Bob Cratchett was said to live in up in Camden now goes for about that.
London is different, it is a city of the world where the rich of the world come to play. We benefit from this and should not begrudge it but I am glad I don't have to live there.
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
"That's not that expensive?"
The man on the Clapham Omnibus speaks.
Poorly phrased perhaps but in London terms 1,300 psf is not that expensive
My point was that @LadyG highlighted a house 4x larger than the average house and used it to “demonstrate” that it’s an expensive area.
News flash: big houses cost more than little houses
Is square footage measured internally or externally? If the latter, I would imagine the likes of cavity walls and cladding could make a significant difference.
£1300psf is still very expensive. I've just done a quick calc on my house in the Peak District, which is a far nicer place than Richmond, and think it's probably currently worth £150 to £200 psf (I've only roughly estimated the footprint).
Post work drinks was a bit sparsely attended in the square mile. Ended up in the Kings Stores and it was basically just us and one other group. Usually on Friday it would be packed. Sort of wish we'd gone to the Crown and Shuttle now, apparently the number of people there was in double figures.
This needs to improve fast or London's amazing hospitality scene is going to die.
Anecdote alert: her ladyship hit the shops yesterday to update her summer wardrobe. Reckoned the womenswear shops in the West End were much busier than her last trip, which took place almost immediately after they reopened. Somewhat encouraging.
Could be a rush before mandatory face coverings.
Why would anyone want to rush before the sensible extra protection of something so simple as wearing a mask is required. Stupid bloody thought process trying to justify not wearing masks.
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
Oh Charles. For £12.5m you could buy something like 50 fairly decent houses (not as nice as that one admittedly) in Dundee. A house like that would be £500k tops.
My point was he’s chosen the biggest house in Richmond to illustrate how expensive it is.
One of my team has just bought a house in the area. Slightly over £1.2m.
London is expensive, that’s just the way it is. But he was being very misleading
£1.2m doesn't buy very much around these parts, Charles. The downstairs flat a few doors away went for that much and it's a 2-bed.
She is only a Director so couldn’t afford much more. But she got a nice house in a slightly less fashionable part of Richmond with a small garden and a park nearby.
Sounds like a good deal, I've been eyeing up a new place, not sure whether to stay in Hampstead or head to outer London.
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
"That's not that expensive?"
The man on the Clapham Omnibus speaks.
Poorly phrased perhaps but in London terms 1,300 psf is not that expensive
My point was that @LadyG highlighted a house 4x larger than the average house and used it to “demonstrate” that it’s an expensive area.
News flash: big houses cost more than little houses
Is square footage measured internally or externally? If the latter, I would imagine the likes of cavity walls and cladding could make a significant difference.
£1300psf is still very expensive. I've just done a quick calc on my house in the Peak District, which is a far nicer place than Richmond, and think it's probably currently worth £150 to £200 psf (I've only roughly estimated the footprint).
Richmond is great, have you ever been? It's got amazing green spaces, Kew gardens nearby, striking distance to London, it's a really nice place to live.
Post work drinks was a bit sparsely attended in the square mile. Ended up in the Kings Stores and it was basically just us and one other group. Usually on Friday it would be packed. Sort of wish we'd gone to the Crown and Shuttle now, apparently the number of people there was in double figures.
This needs to improve fast or London's amazing hospitality scene is going to die.
Anecdote alert: her ladyship hit the shops yesterday to update her summer wardrobe. Reckoned the womenswear shops in the West End were much busier than her last trip, which took place almost immediately after they reopened. Somewhat encouraging.
Could be a rush before mandatory face coverings.
Why would anyone want to rush before the sensible extra protection of something so simple as wearing a mask is required. Stupid bloody thought process trying to justify not wearing masks.
I'm in favour of them, my other half will wwear them but isn't looking forward to it - as it'll be mandated she will however. We know the public is split, though I suspect once they are normalised people will be happier about it but I think people definitely will be heading to the shops before they're mandatory to do voluntary shopping.
As so often the key word here is 'could'. This is a story suggesting that somehow judges could be stopped from making legal judgements in accordance with, um, the laws parliament have the power to make and unmake.
In general the word 'could' kills any story, just as the word 'somehow' kills the force of any argument, as in:
'Shock claim that Martians could land in Scunthorpe'.
'The Middle East should somehow find a way to play nicely'.
I don’t know the details of the law, but it seems very reasonable that she should have the right to appeal the judgement and if that needs to be in the U.K. then so be it.
What will he more troubling is if, say, she loses the case and then claims asylum for example. I think it would be entirely reasonable to give her a limited license to return, solely for the purpose of the appeal.
The government legislated some years ago now (during May's time I think) to allow out of country appeals where you got sent away but could appeal the decision from wherever you had been sent. My friends who deal with this sort of thing explain that the exception is cases where it is thought that it is not possible to have effective representation from abroad. I don't know the details of this case but that is the conclusion that the court must have reached, possibly because of her age.
Of course in the world of Covid we are all taking instructions remotely from clients pretty much all of the time. The argument that this impedes the defence is going to be harder to make.
This is why I pray that London survives the virus. Yes it gets too much money and too much attention. It is annoying. It's inhabitants vex and kvetch. Fuck bloody London.
And yet, in my lifetime, amazing regeneration has been done here, and, more to the point, this has generated enormous sums of money for the whole country
"Regeneration" - putting up characterless glass and steel boxes and overpriced chain restaurants and bars? Sure it's good for employment and tax revenue but it's not amazing regeneration, which involves building well-planned and balanced communities.
Still, it's better than what was there before.
Well, er, yeah. What was there before was literally wasteland. Deindustrialised nothingness. Much of it actually poisoned by arsenic and so on. ANYTHING would be better
I guess they could have built a series of dreary suburban cul de sacs. Identikit Wimpey homes. Would you have preferred that?
No, as I wrote, I would have preferred well-planned and balanced communities.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there isn't a place for the Canary Wharfs of this world. Just as long as I can enjoy the services funded by the tax revenue and don't have to live there or look at them too often.
Love the Docklands area personally. It shows ambition, creativity ,escapism and its past history is preserved well in names and features. If this is a victim of everyone preferring to WFH then it shows we will have chosen a duller if more comfortable life
I agree. When you fly into London City and take the DLR into Bank it just looks absolutely incredible now. And even 30 years on from my first visit there are still always cranes working away. I just don't believe you can get that dynamism, that hubris, the whole arrogant mentality for good or ill working in a converted bedroom speaking to a laptop. It is not just consumption, its conspicuous consumption including the yachts parked up by the expensive flats. Without the conspicuous part it will lose a lot.
Good. The wealthy shouldn’t flaunt their good fortune
But they should spend it. That's what keeps the wheels of the economy turning.
Giving it away is more fun than spending
Nice to hear. And I'm guessing it's because in your younger days your father told you that whenever you feel like blowing money on baubles and expensive indulgences you should just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
He took the simpler approach of not giving me a lot of money when I was young! My pocket money was about a third of my peers! It felt crap at the time, but in hindsight the amount that went up in smoke or up their noses... and the impact it had on their future life opportunities... he was right.
My inheritance is the charitable trust he founded.
Ah Ok. I was just keen to lever a Gatsby ref in. I'm sure there's no actual resemblance. Gatsby is a very American tale.
This is why I pray that London survives the virus. Yes it gets too much money and too much attention. It is annoying. It's inhabitants vex and kvetch. Fuck bloody London.
And yet, in my lifetime, amazing regeneration has been done here, and, more to the point, this has generated enormous sums of money for the whole country
"Regeneration" - putting up characterless glass and steel boxes and overpriced chain restaurants and bars? Sure it's good for employment and tax revenue but it's not amazing regeneration, which involves building well-planned and balanced communities.
Still, it's better than what was there before.
Well, er, yeah. What was there before was literally wasteland. Deindustrialised nothingness. Much of it actually poisoned by arsenic and so on. ANYTHING would be better
I guess they could have built a series of dreary suburban cul de sacs. Identikit Wimpey homes. Would you have preferred that?
No, as I wrote, I would have preferred well-planned and balanced communities.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there isn't a place for the Canary Wharfs of this world. Just as long as I can enjoy the services funded by the tax revenue and don't have to live there or look at them too often.
Love the Docklands area personally. It shows ambition, creativity ,escapism and its past history is preserved well in names and features. If this is a victim of everyone preferring to WFH then it shows we will have chosen a duller if more comfortable life
I agree. When you fly into London City and take the DLR into Bank it just looks absolutely incredible now. And even 30 years on from my first visit there are still always cranes working away. I just don't believe you can get that dynamism, that hubris, the whole arrogant mentality for good or ill working in a converted bedroom speaking to a laptop. It is not just consumption, its conspicuous consumption including the yachts parked up by the expensive flats. Without the conspicuous part it will lose a lot.
Good. The wealthy shouldn’t flaunt their good fortune
Not sure about that as long as they are not disrespectful to the less wealthy. Most people find it a novelty to gawp at wealth and a break from everyday life. Just look at the popularity of shows like Dallas and Dynasty in the past and the Crown today. People like to know about lottery winners and how they are planning to spend it.Its a sort of wealth by proxy mentality. Its escapism for many and thats why I like areas like the Docklands etc . Combines that with ambition etc. That's my take on it and I am not that wealthy or even materialistic in terms of my own needs .
It’s so shallow. At the end of the day a house is a house and a boat a boat. What matters more is a home with family a friends. We’ve taken the approach (since the days of Good Henry) of founding and endowing local organisation - and then supporting them over time. That’s far more useful for people than flash materialism and escapism
I don't think its shallow - most people like to see nice things even if they don't own them - most people are curious and on average the life of the wealthy are more interesting (even if only because they are different to the lifestyle normally encountered) . Its the same with other "lucky" attributes like intelligence, sporting talent or beauty - people like to see these extremes -its why people watch the Olympics , watch University Challenge or admire Newton or Einstein or want to go out with a supermodel.
I was meaning the lifestyle, not the vicarious enjoyment.
It’s an endless round of parties with the same people talking about who said what to who. Ugh *shudders*
A counterpoint to some of the fading antibody response stories....
SARS-CoV-2 infection induces robust, neutralizing antibody responses that are stable for at least three months https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.14.20151126v1.full.pdf Questions regarding the robustness, functionality and longevity of the antibody response to the virus remain unanswered. Here we report that the vast majority of infected individuals with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 experience robust IgG antibody responses against the viral spike protein, based on a dataset of 19,860 individuals screened at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. We also show that titers are stable for at least a period approximating three months, and that anti-spike binding titers significantly correlate with neutralization of authentic SARS-CoV-2. Our data suggests that more than 90% of seroconverters make detectible neutralizing antibody responses and that these titers are stable for at least the near-term future.
Post work drinks was a bit sparsely attended in the square mile. Ended up in the Kings Stores and it was basically just us and one other group. Usually on Friday it would be packed. Sort of wish we'd gone to the Crown and Shuttle now, apparently the number of people there was in double figures.
This needs to improve fast or London's amazing hospitality scene is going to die.
Anecdote alert: her ladyship hit the shops yesterday to update her summer wardrobe. Reckoned the womenswear shops in the West End were much busier than her last trip, which took place almost immediately after they reopened. Somewhat encouraging.
Could be a rush before mandatory face coverings.
Why would anyone want to rush before the sensible extra protection of something so simple as wearing a mask is required. Stupid bloody thought process trying to justify not wearing masks.
I did wear a mask yesterday at the hairdressers and also in a small shop. However, Asda and B & Q had a very small number of people wearing masks.
For my own part I will wear one in confined spaces and small shops, despite my copd, but outside in town and generally I will keep to social distancing without a mask which I do not like wearing due to copd
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
Oh Charles. For £12.5m you could buy something like 50 fairly decent houses (not as nice as that one admittedly) in Dundee. A house like that would be £500k tops.
My point was he’s chosen the biggest house in Richmond to illustrate how expensive it is.
One of my team has just bought a house in the area. Slightly over £1.2m.
London is expensive, that’s just the way it is. But he was being very misleading
£1.2m?
I know that will only get one a cupboard under the stairs in Carlton Hill, St Johns Wood or a car parking space in Mayfair, but it is hardly modest.
The man on the Clapham Omnibus speaks...again.
Hence the comment “London is expensive”.
I was criticising the evidence provided not the conclusion.
I don’t know why you feel the need to make personal attacks.
No personal "attack" intended. I was merely pointing out a wildly differing perspective on "value". If any offence was caused I can only apologise and shuffle off with my tail between my legs
This is why I pray that London survives the virus. Yes it gets too much money and too much attention. It is annoying. It's inhabitants vex and kvetch. Fuck bloody London.
And yet, in my lifetime, amazing regeneration has been done here, and, more to the point, this has generated enormous sums of money for the whole country
"Regeneration" - putting up characterless glass and steel boxes and overpriced chain restaurants and bars? Sure it's good for employment and tax revenue but it's not amazing regeneration, which involves building well-planned and balanced communities.
Still, it's better than what was there before.
Well, er, yeah. What was there before was literally wasteland. Deindustrialised nothingness. Much of it actually poisoned by arsenic and so on. ANYTHING would be better
I guess they could have built a series of dreary suburban cul de sacs. Identikit Wimpey homes. Would you have preferred that?
No, as I wrote, I would have preferred well-planned and balanced communities.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there isn't a place for the Canary Wharfs of this world. Just as long as I can enjoy the services funded by the tax revenue and don't have to live there or look at them too often.
Love the Docklands area personally. It shows ambition, creativity ,escapism and its past history is preserved well in names and features. If this is a victim of everyone preferring to WFH then it shows we will have chosen a duller if more comfortable life
I agree. When you fly into London City and take the DLR into Bank it just looks absolutely incredible now. And even 30 years on from my first visit there are still always cranes working away. I just don't believe you can get that dynamism, that hubris, the whole arrogant mentality for good or ill working in a converted bedroom speaking to a laptop. It is not just consumption, its conspicuous consumption including the yachts parked up by the expensive flats. Without the conspicuous part it will lose a lot.
Good. The wealthy shouldn’t flaunt their good fortune
Not sure about that as long as they are not disrespectful to the less wealthy. Most people find it a novelty to gawp at wealth and a break from everyday life. Just look at the popularity of shows like Dallas and Dynasty in the past and the Crown today. People like to know about lottery winners and how they are planning to spend it.Its a sort of wealth by proxy mentality. Its escapism for many and thats why I like areas like the Docklands etc . Combines that with ambition etc. That's my take on it and I am not that wealthy or even materialistic in terms of my own needs .
It’s so shallow. At the end of the day a house is a house and a boat a boat. What matters more is a home with family a friends. We’ve taken the approach (since the days of Good Henry) of founding and endowing local organisation - and then supporting them over time. That’s far more useful for people than flash materialism and escapism
I don't think its shallow - most people like to see nice things even if they don't own them - most people are curious and on average the life of the wealthy are more interesting (even if only because they are different to the lifestyle normally encountered) . Its the same with other "lucky" attributes like intelligence, sporting talent or beauty - people like to see these extremes -its why people watch the Olympics , watch University Challenge or admire Newton or Einstein or want to go out with a supermodel.
I was meaning the lifestyle, not the vicarious enjoyment.
It’s an endless round of parties with the same people talking about who said what to who. Ugh *shudders*
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
Oh Charles. For £12.5m you could buy something like 50 fairly decent houses (not as nice as that one admittedly) in Dundee. A house like that would be £500k tops.
My point was he’s chosen the biggest house in Richmond to illustrate how expensive it is.
One of my team has just bought a house in the area. Slightly over £1.2m.
London is expensive, that’s just the way it is. But he was being very misleading
£1.2m doesn't buy very much around these parts, Charles. The downstairs flat a few doors away went for that much and it's a 2-bed.
She is only a Director so couldn’t afford much more. But she got a nice house in a slightly less fashionable part of Richmond with a small garden and a park nearby.
Sounds like a good deal, I've been eyeing up a new place, not sure whether to stay in Hampstead or head to outer London.
Seller was a small time developer who needed to shift stock to release capital for his next project. I had fun helping her with the negotiation 😁
After Boris' victory speech last evening, I am not sure what we have to complain about now. Virus beaten and life back to normal by Christmas. What's not to like?
So it turns out that the UK’s near unique position of not recording numbers of those ‘recovered’ from COVID had both a reason and a consequence for comparatives with other countries. PHE death stats include those who not just recently had the virus, but who have ever had it (however unrelated the cause of death). No wonder our numbers continue to appear to be so high compared with our countries.
Forget the froth about over reporting fatalities.
The only number of any consequence is excess deaths. It is the only statistic that paints a reasonably accurate picture. That number still looks sub optimal for the UK.
That’s not the point. Whether we as a country managed the virus well overall is a matter for debate (and should actually be about more than just numbers, although if you are using numbers you do need to be confident that you are working to a common base). But as a country trying to encourage people out of their homes to restore a degree of economic normality the methodology is an obvious cause of concern going forward. Because if “comparatively” our death numbers continue to look high, then people will draw conclusions that comparatively the country continues to look less safe than others who are apparently successfully opening up to a greater degree.
The English approach may be justified partly on the grounds that COVID is apparently causing health issues way beyond the point at which an individual is clear of the virus. But it is also very much maximalist, rather than based on accuracy - it assumes that if there is a possibility that COVID-19 may have had a contributing factor (but only by virtue of an historic positive test - so even at an extreme, apparently for a death in a road traffic accident!) then it gets reported in the figures.
One can see why the Govt is very concerned about this - deaths will naturally begin to increase as autumn moves into winter - and it is perfectly possible that the death figures as currently put together will start to show large spikes as a consequence.
The last point is the key to this. We cannot have more lockdowns because of an apparent spike in cases which has not actually been caused by the virus at all.
To be fair I think that official decisions are going to be more focussed on case numbers etc than deaths. But I suspect that the general public are far more focussed on the deaths figures. And it is the attitude of the general public which is possibly the greatest barrier to economic recovery.
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
Oh Charles. For £12.5m you could buy something like 50 fairly decent houses (not as nice as that one admittedly) in Dundee. A house like that would be £500k tops.
My point was he’s chosen the biggest house in Richmond to illustrate how expensive it is.
One of my team has just bought a house in the area. Slightly over £1.2m.
London is expensive, that’s just the way it is. But he was being very misleading
£1.2m doesn't buy very much around these parts, Charles. The downstairs flat a few doors away went for that much and it's a 2-bed.
She is only a Director so couldn’t afford much more. But she got a nice house in a slightly less fashionable part of Richmond with a small garden and a park nearby.
Sounds like a good deal, I've been eyeing up a new place, not sure whether to stay in Hampstead or head to outer London.
Seller was a small time developer who needed to shift stock to release capital for his next project. I had fun helping her with the negotiation 😁
I might do what I did this time and go and get an auction property. I've been very lucky with the housing market, twice I've more than doubled my initial price, it's put in a position to get a pretty reasonably sized 3 or 4 bedroom house now depending on the area.
HMG has announced that vouchers for cancelled holidays due to covid 19 will be Atol protected meaning their money is protected even if the tour operator goes into adminstration
It is acts like this that really matter to the public, not the machinations of the political elite
HMG has announced that vouchers for cancelled holidays due to covid 19 will be Atol protected meaning their money is protected even if the tour operator goes into adminstration
It is acts like this that really matter to the public, not the machinations of the political elite
Is Atol Atol protected? Probably needs to be at this rate.
After Boris' victory speech last evening, I am not sure what we have to complain about now. Virus beaten and life back to normal by Christmas. What's not to like?
So it turns out that the UK’s near unique position of not recording numbers of those ‘recovered’ from COVID had both a reason and a consequence for comparatives with other countries. PHE death stats include those who not just recently had the virus, but who have ever had it (however unrelated the cause of death). No wonder our numbers continue to appear to be so high compared with our countries.
Forget the froth about over reporting fatalities.
The only number of any consequence is excess deaths. It is the only statistic that paints a reasonably accurate picture. That number still looks sub optimal for the UK.
That’s not the point. Whether we as a country managed the virus well overall is a matter for debate (and should actually be about more than just numbers, although if you are using numbers you do need to be confident that you are working to a common base). But as a country trying to encourage people out of their homes to restore a degree of economic normality the methodology is an obvious cause of concern going forward. Because if “comparatively” our death numbers continue to look high, then people will draw conclusions that comparatively the country continues to look less safe than others who are apparently successfully opening up to a greater degree.
The English approach may be justified partly on the grounds that COVID is apparently causing health issues way beyond the point at which an individual is clear of the virus. But it is also very much maximalist, rather than based on accuracy - it assumes that if there is a possibility that COVID-19 may have had a contributing factor (but only by virtue of an historic positive test - so even at an extreme, apparently for a death in a road traffic accident!) then it gets reported in the figures.
One can see why the Govt is very concerned about this - deaths will naturally begin to increase as autumn moves into winter - and it is perfectly possible that the death figures as currently put together will start to show large spikes as a consequence.
The last point is the key to this. We cannot have more lockdowns because of an apparent spike in cases which has not actually been caused by the virus at all.
To be fair I think that official decisions are going to be more focussed on case numbers etc than deaths. But I suspect that the general public are far more focussed on the deaths figures. And it is the attitude of the general public which is possibly the greatest barrier to economic recovery.
Agreed. Its why I have reservations about the endemic use of masks. Its not that I don't believe them to be useful at the margins, its more that they create a mindset of caution and fear. Hopefully we will get used to them.
After Boris' victory speech last evening, I am not sure what we have to complain about now. Virus beaten and life back to normal by Christmas. What's not to like?
So it turns out that the UK’s near unique position of not recording numbers of those ‘recovered’ from COVID had both a reason and a consequence for comparatives with other countries. PHE death stats include those who not just recently had the virus, but who have ever had it (however unrelated the cause of death). No wonder our numbers continue to appear to be so high compared with our countries.
Forget the froth about over reporting fatalities.
The only number of any consequence is excess deaths. It is the only statistic that paints a reasonably accurate picture. That number still looks sub optimal for the UK.
That’s not the point. Whether we as a country managed the virus well overall is a matter for debate (and should actually be about more than just numbers, although if you are using numbers you do need to be confident that you are working to a common base). But as a country trying to encourage people out of their homes to restore a degree of economic normality the methodology is an obvious cause of concern going forward. Because if “comparatively” our death numbers continue to look high, then people will draw conclusions that comparatively the country continues to look less safe than others who are apparently successfully opening up to a greater degree.
The English approach may be justified partly on the grounds that COVID is apparently causing health issues way beyond the point at which an individual is clear of the virus. But it is also very much maximalist, rather than based on accuracy - it assumes that if there is a possibility that COVID-19 may have had a contributing factor (but only by virtue of an historic positive test - so even at an extreme, apparently for a death in a road traffic accident!) then it gets reported in the figures.
One can see why the Govt is very concerned about this - deaths will naturally begin to increase as autumn moves into winter - and it is perfectly possible that the death figures as currently put together will start to show large spikes as a consequence.
The last point is the key to this. We cannot have more lockdowns because of an apparent spike in cases which has not actually been caused by the virus at all.
To be fair I think that official decisions are going to be more focussed on case numbers etc than deaths. But I suspect that the general public are far more focussed on the deaths figures. And it is the attitude of the general public which is possibly the greatest barrier to economic recovery.
I think that is absolutely correct. People are terrified of normal activities (enough are at any rate) even with mitigation measures (in fact the measures, though necessary, probably reinforce the terror of doing something normal), so even though the government will increasingly encourage people to get back out there, I don't think that in itself will see it happen as they want.
HMG has announced that vouchers for cancelled holidays due to covid 19 will be Atol protected meaning their money is protected even if the tour operator goes into adminstration
It is acts like this that really matter to the public, not the machinations of the political elite
Is Atol Atol protected? Probably needs to be at this rate.
The government must be underwriting it at this stage.
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
"That's not that expensive?"
The man on the Clapham Omnibus speaks.
Poorly phrased perhaps but in London terms 1,300 psf is not that expensive
My point was that @LadyG highlighted a house 4x larger than the average house and used it to “demonstrate” that it’s an expensive area.
News flash: big houses cost more than little houses
Is square footage measured internally or externally? If the latter, I would imagine the likes of cavity walls and cladding could make a significant difference.
£1300psf is still very expensive. I've just done a quick calc on my house in the Peak District, which is a far nicer place than Richmond, and think it's probably currently worth £150 to £200 psf (I've only roughly estimated the footprint).
Richmond is great, have you ever been? It's got amazing green spaces, Kew gardens nearby, striking distance to London, it's a really nice place to live.
"Richmond is great, have you ever been?" That's the trouble with Londoners, they think it's the be all and end all. There are other places to live than Richmond. I've never been to Richmond, have no interest in ever going there and will hopefully never have to go there. I'm certain I can find exactly the same peace and happiness, with amazing green spaces, access to cities, parks and places of interest where I live. Or in other parts of the country. Probably.
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
Oh Charles. For £12.5m you could buy something like 50 fairly decent houses (not as nice as that one admittedly) in Dundee. A house like that would be £500k tops.
My point was he’s chosen the biggest house in Richmond to illustrate how expensive it is.
One of my team has just bought a house in the area. Slightly over £1.2m.
London is expensive, that’s just the way it is. But he was being very misleading
£1.2m?
I know that will only get one a cupboard under the stairs in Carlton Hill, St Johns Wood or a car parking space in Mayfair, but it is hardly modest.
The man on the Clapham Omnibus speaks...again.
Hence the comment “London is expensive”.
I was criticising the evidence provided not the conclusion.
I don’t know why you feel the need to make personal attacks.
No personal "attack" intended. I was merely pointing out a wildly differing perspective on "value". If any offence was caused I can only apologise and shuffle off with my tail between my legs
This is why I pray that London survives the virus. Yes it gets too much money and too much attention. It is annoying. It's inhabitants vex and kvetch. Fuck bloody London.
And yet, in my lifetime, amazing regeneration has been done here, and, more to the point, this has generated enormous sums of money for the whole country
"Regeneration" - putting up characterless glass and steel boxes and overpriced chain restaurants and bars? Sure it's good for employment and tax revenue but it's not amazing regeneration, which involves building well-planned and balanced communities.
Still, it's better than what was there before.
Well, er, yeah. What was there before was literally wasteland. Deindustrialised nothingness. Much of it actually poisoned by arsenic and so on. ANYTHING would be better
I guess they could have built a series of dreary suburban cul de sacs. Identikit Wimpey homes. Would you have preferred that?
No, as I wrote, I would have preferred well-planned and balanced communities.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there isn't a place for the Canary Wharfs of this world. Just as long as I can enjoy the services funded by the tax revenue and don't have to live there or look at them too often.
Love the Docklands area personally. It shows ambition, creativity ,escapism and its past history is preserved well in names and features. If this is a victim of everyone preferring to WFH then it shows we will have chosen a duller if more comfortable life
I agree. When you fly into London City and take the DLR into Bank it just looks absolutely incredible now. And even 30 years on from my first visit there are still always cranes working away. I just don't believe you can get that dynamism, that hubris, the whole arrogant mentality for good or ill working in a converted bedroom speaking to a laptop. It is not just consumption, its conspicuous consumption including the yachts parked up by the expensive flats. Without the conspicuous part it will lose a lot.
Good. The wealthy shouldn’t flaunt their good fortune
Not sure about that as long as they are not disrespectful to the less wealthy. Most people find it a novelty to gawp at wealth and a break from everyday life. Just look at the popularity of shows like Dallas and Dynasty in the past and the Crown today. People like to know about lottery winners and how they are planning to spend it.Its a sort of wealth by proxy mentality. Its escapism for many and thats why I like areas like the Docklands etc . Combines that with ambition etc. That's my take on it and I am not that wealthy or even materialistic in terms of my own needs .
It’s so shallow. At the end of the day a house is a house and a boat a boat. What matters more is a home with family a friends. We’ve taken the approach (since the days of Good Henry) of founding and endowing local organisation - and then supporting them over time. That’s far more useful for people than flash materialism and escapism
I don't think its shallow - most people like to see nice things even if they don't own them - most people are curious and on average the life of the wealthy are more interesting (even if only because they are different to the lifestyle normally encountered) . Its the same with other "lucky" attributes like intelligence, sporting talent or beauty - people like to see these extremes -its why people watch the Olympics , watch University Challenge or admire Newton or Einstein or want to go out with a supermodel.
I was meaning the lifestyle, not the vicarious enjoyment.
It’s an endless round of parties with the same people talking about who said what to who. Ugh *shudders*
Made in Belgravia?
Nah Belgravia’s ok. It’s the weekends in the south of France that are so damn tedious.
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
The suburbs between Knightsbridge and Chelsea and Richmond on the District and Piccadilly lines really are some of the nicest in the country. You have Kensington and Chiswick too. Even Hammersmith isn't too bad once you get away from the centre.
Nor is there any mystery as to why: the royal palaces and aristocratic houses in the early modern era made for good housing for courtiers and hangers on which have turned into hugely desirable properties because modern architects are shit.
But, yes, none of them are exactly under-priced.
Oh please. They're perfectly nice and all, but they're not exactly Hampstead.
HMG has announced that vouchers for cancelled holidays due to covid 19 will be Atol protected meaning their money is protected even if the tour operator goes into adminstration
It is acts like this that really matter to the public, not the machinations of the political elite
Is Atol Atol protected? Probably needs to be at this rate.
Yes - HMG will step in if necessary.
Good move to protect the holiday industry by guaranteeing the voucher scheme
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
"That's not that expensive?"
The man on the Clapham Omnibus speaks.
Poorly phrased perhaps but in London terms 1,300 psf is not that expensive
My point was that @LadyG highlighted a house 4x larger than the average house and used it to “demonstrate” that it’s an expensive area.
News flash: big houses cost more than little houses
Is square footage measured internally or externally? If the latter, I would imagine the likes of cavity walls and cladding could make a significant difference.
£1300psf is still very expensive. I've just done a quick calc on my house in the Peak District, which is a far nicer place than Richmond, and think it's probably currently worth £150 to £200 psf (I've only roughly estimated the footprint).
Richmond is great, have you ever been? It's got amazing green spaces, Kew gardens nearby, striking distance to London, it's a really nice place to live.
"Richmond is great, have you ever been?" That's the trouble with Londoners, they think it's the be all and end all. There are other places to live than Richmond. I've never been to Richmond, have no interest in ever going there and will hopefully never have to go there. I'm certain I can find exactly the same peace and happiness, with amazing green spaces, access to cities, parks and places of interest where I live. Or in other parts of the country. Probably.
You're inferring a lot there. I could easily say the same the other way around that people not from London assume that it's an urban jungle of concrete and glass and think it's crap. I won't though.
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
"That's not that expensive?"
The man on the Clapham Omnibus speaks.
Poorly phrased perhaps but in London terms 1,300 psf is not that expensive
My point was that @LadyG highlighted a house 4x larger than the average house and used it to “demonstrate” that it’s an expensive area.
News flash: big houses cost more than little houses
Is square footage measured internally or externally? If the latter, I would imagine the likes of cavity walls and cladding could make a significant difference.
£1300psf is still very expensive. I've just done a quick calc on my house in the Peak District, which is a far nicer place than Richmond, and think it's probably currently worth £150 to £200 psf (I've only roughly estimated the footprint).
Richmond is great, have you ever been? It's got amazing green spaces, Kew gardens nearby, striking distance to London, it's a really nice place to live.
You need to watch EA area calcs - very easy to be 10% or even 20% out.
£150-200 psf sounds quite low for the Peak District, especially for smaller places. Attractive.
I have a mate developing acre plots in a wooded area around here, and his peak number is something like £250 psf. We are not as salubrious as the Peaks.
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
"That's not that expensive?"
The man on the Clapham Omnibus speaks.
Poorly phrased perhaps but in London terms 1,300 psf is not that expensive
My point was that @LadyG highlighted a house 4x larger than the average house and used it to “demonstrate” that it’s an expensive area.
News flash: big houses cost more than little houses
Is square footage measured internally or externally? If the latter, I would imagine the likes of cavity walls and cladding could make a significant difference.
£1300psf is still very expensive. I've just done a quick calc on my house in the Peak District, which is a far nicer place than Richmond, and think it's probably currently worth £150 to £200 psf (I've only roughly estimated the footprint).
Richmond is great, have you ever been? It's got amazing green spaces, Kew gardens nearby, striking distance to London, it's a really nice place to live.
"Richmond is great, have you ever been?" That's the trouble with Londoners, they think it's the be all and end all. There are other places to live than Richmond. I've never been to Richmond, have no interest in ever going there and will hopefully never have to go there. I'm certain I can find exactly the same peace and happiness, with amazing green spaces, access to cities, parks and places of interest where I live. Or in other parts of the country. Probably.
The house is Barnes, not Richmond, anyway. Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, but a) off the Tube b) not really near the Park (though it has its own green spaces) and c) Hammersmith Bridge is often closed, as it is now.
Good if you want to send your sons to St Paul's though.
HMG has announced that vouchers for cancelled holidays due to covid 19 will be Atol protected meaning their money is protected even if the tour operator goes into adminstration
It is acts like this that really matter to the public, not the machinations of the political elite
Is Atol Atol protected? Probably needs to be at this rate.
Yes - HMG will step in if necessary.
Good move to protect the holiday industry by guaranteeing the voucher scheme
As we discussed many months ago, it is umpteen months after the rest of Europe reacted. So so stupid because it was then it was needed most. People worried about losing their money forcing travel firms out of business by requesting refunds that they would be happy to leave as credits, if the protection was available then. They were protected, until they took the credit.
If you remember I posted on here the information from the ABTA web site pleading with the Govt to do something, anything, just act to clarify. Months have passed. It is all too late now.
Today, the @UN updated its #COVID19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan to $10.3 billion.
If we don't act NOW, the pandemic could ➡️ reverse decades of progress in poverty reduction ➡️ push 265M people to the brink of starvation ➡️ kill 1.67M people in low-income countries
And we worry about wearing masks And going to the pub.
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
Oh Charles. For £12.5m you could buy something like 50 fairly decent houses (not as nice as that one admittedly) in Dundee. A house like that would be £500k tops.
That house isn't even in Richmond; it's in Barnes which is a very poor relation by reputation. Plus you could have Tim Henman for a neighbour .
Completely bonkers, but entirely consistent with the arguments of those who go around accusing other people of cultural appropriation.
She is interviewed in the Guardian as well. She is really talented, but, strictly speaking, it does open up accusations of cultural appropriation. For me, she should be allowed to dance whatever style she likes and wearing whatever outfit she likes, and with whatever hairstyle she likes, but then so should anyone.
Post work drinks was a bit sparsely attended in the square mile. Ended up in the Kings Stores and it was basically just us and one other group. Usually on Friday it would be packed. Sort of wish we'd gone to the Crown and Shuttle now, apparently the number of people there was in double figures.
This needs to improve fast or London's amazing hospitality scene is going to die.
Anecdote alert: her ladyship hit the shops yesterday to update her summer wardrobe. Reckoned the womenswear shops in the West End were much busier than her last trip, which took place almost immediately after they reopened. Somewhat encouraging.
Could be a rush before mandatory face coverings.
Why would anyone want to rush before the sensible extra protection of something so simple as wearing a mask is required. Stupid bloody thought process trying to justify not wearing masks.
Why is this still a point of discussion?
Wear masks people, there’s a nasty virus going round. Just do it!
HMG has announced that vouchers for cancelled holidays due to covid 19 will be Atol protected meaning their money is protected even if the tour operator goes into adminstration
It is acts like this that really matter to the public, not the machinations of the political elite
Is Atol Atol protected? Probably needs to be at this rate.
Yes - HMG will step in if necessary.
Good move to protect the holiday industry by guaranteeing the voucher scheme
As we discussed many months ago, it is umpteen months after the rest of Europe reacted. So so stupid because it was then it was needed most. People worried about losing their money forcing travel firms out of business by requesting refunds that they would be happy to leave as credits, if the protection was available then. They were protected, until they took the credit.
If you remember I posted on here the information from the ABTA web site pleading with the Govt to do something, anything, just act to clarify. Months have passed. It is all too late now.
With respect it is not too late. Many thousands of holiday makers currently holding vouchers will be delighted, indeed I know three people currently holding vouchers
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
"That's not that expensive?"
The man on the Clapham Omnibus speaks.
Poorly phrased perhaps but in London terms 1,300 psf is not that expensive
My point was that @LadyG highlighted a house 4x larger than the average house and used it to “demonstrate” that it’s an expensive area.
News flash: big houses cost more than little houses
Is square footage measured internally or externally? If the latter, I would imagine the likes of cavity walls and cladding could make a significant difference.
£1300psf is still very expensive. I've just done a quick calc on my house in the Peak District, which is a far nicer place than Richmond, and think it's probably currently worth £150 to £200 psf (I've only roughly estimated the footprint).
Richmond is great, have you ever been? It's got amazing green spaces, Kew gardens nearby, striking distance to London, it's a really nice place to live.
"Richmond is great, have you ever been?" That's the trouble with Londoners, they think it's the be all and end all. There are other places to live than Richmond. I've never been to Richmond, have no interest in ever going there and will hopefully never have to go there. I'm certain I can find exactly the same peace and happiness, with amazing green spaces, access to cities, parks and places of interest where I live. Or in other parts of the country. Probably.
The house is Barnes, not Richmond, anyway. Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, but a) off the Tube b) not really near the Park (though it has its own green spaces) and c) Hammersmith Bridge is often closed, as it is now.
Good if you want to send your sons to St Paul's though.
I guess Heathrow flight path less of a negative at the moment
Even where my parents live in outer London £1.2m will buy a bog standard 4 bedroom semi at the moment. It's not going to get anything spectacular worth the money.
Completely bonkers, but entirely consistent with the arguments of those who go around accusing other people of cultural appropriation.
Good for her for finding joy in an element of another culture and going for it. Can you imagine if people followed appopriation arguments through to their conclusion, everyone stuck only enjoying or seeking to emulate things of their own upbringing? Ghastly. You'd have people thinking they have to like irish dancing if they were irish, for example. It's a truly weird concept. She at least seems to make a reasonable distinction about appreciatiating the heritage of something versus borrowing elements with acknowledgement.
Completely bonkers, but entirely consistent with the arguments of those who go around accusing other people of cultural appropriation.
She is interviewed in the Guardian as well. She is really talented, but, strictly speaking, it does open up accusations of cultural appropriation. For me, she should be allowed to dance whatever style she likes and wearing whatever outfit she likes, and with whatever hairstyle she likes, but then so should anyone.
Pretty much agree.
For me the concept of cultural appropriation is basically a tool for bullying, or 'gaslighting' if you're a person who believes in wider application of that rather bizarre concept.
Not as good as the Levi Root one, but quite funny.
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
"That's not that expensive?"
The man on the Clapham Omnibus speaks.
Poorly phrased perhaps but in London terms 1,300 psf is not that expensive
My point was that @LadyG highlighted a house 4x larger than the average house and used it to “demonstrate” that it’s an expensive area.
News flash: big houses cost more than little houses
Is square footage measured internally or externally? If the latter, I would imagine the likes of cavity walls and cladding could make a significant difference.
£1300psf is still very expensive. I've just done a quick calc on my house in the Peak District, which is a far nicer place than Richmond, and think it's probably currently worth £150 to £200 psf (I've only roughly estimated the footprint).
Richmond is great, have you ever been? It's got amazing green spaces, Kew gardens nearby, striking distance to London, it's a really nice place to live.
"Richmond is great, have you ever been?" That's the trouble with Londoners, they think it's the be all and end all. There are other places to live than Richmond. I've never been to Richmond, have no interest in ever going there and will hopefully never have to go there. I'm certain I can find exactly the same peace and happiness, with amazing green spaces, access to cities, parks and places of interest where I live. Or in other parts of the country. Probably.
The house is Barnes, not Richmond, anyway. Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, but a) off the Tube b) not really near the Park (though it has its own green spaces) and c) Hammersmith Bridge is often closed, as it is now.
Good if you want to send your sons to St Paul's though.
Can the Corbynites just fuck off to the SWP and Labour can get back to trying to win elections please. They do not have a majority of opinion over what the left should do.
I am a leftie, I am not interested in their boring, petty arguments. Let's solve the big problems that actually matter, can't do that if we keep losing.
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
Oh Charles. For £12.5m you could buy something like 50 fairly decent houses (not as nice as that one admittedly) in Dundee. A house like that would be £500k tops.
That house isn't even in Richmond; it's in Barnes which is a very poor relation by reputation. Plus you could have Tim Henman for a neighbour .
I'd be looking to buy a flat possibly in Clapham over the next year or two but mentions of Richmond have peaked my curiosity
Depends what you are looking for
Clapham is younger and livelier, more “scene-y” with a better nightlife. Richmond is slightly older (Young couples), more space and parks, more a boutique lifestyle.
Even where my parents live in outer London £1.2m will buy a bog standard 4 bedroom semi at the moment. It's not going to get anything spectacular worth the money.
Completely bonkers, but entirely consistent with the arguments of those who go around accusing other people of cultural appropriation.
She is interviewed in the Guardian as well. She is really talented, but, strictly speaking, it does open up accusations of cultural appropriation. For me, she should be allowed to dance whatever style she likes and wearing whatever outfit she likes, and with whatever hairstyle she likes, but then so should anyone.
Absolutely. And anyone doing so with respect, whatever their colour and wherever the dance, clothes or style originates from should be welcomed and free from criticism for it.
It is possible to do those things without respect, such as blackface as done in the last century, and that should be open to criticism.
HMG has announced that vouchers for cancelled holidays due to covid 19 will be Atol protected meaning their money is protected even if the tour operator goes into adminstration
It is acts like this that really matter to the public, not the machinations of the political elite
Is Atol Atol protected? Probably needs to be at this rate.
Yes - HMG will step in if necessary.
Good move to protect the holiday industry by guaranteeing the voucher scheme
As we discussed many months ago, it is umpteen months after the rest of Europe reacted. So so stupid because it was then it was needed most. People worried about losing their money forcing travel firms out of business by requesting refunds that they would be happy to leave as credits, if the protection was available then. They were protected, until they took the credit.
If you remember I posted on here the information from the ABTA web site pleading with the Govt to do something, anything, just act to clarify. Months have passed. It is all too late now.
With respect it is not too late. Many thousands of holiday makers currently holding vouchers will be delighted, indeed I know three people currently holding vouchers
OK so not too late for say 5% but too late for the majority and when it was really needed. And frankly we are in buyer beware territory now for anyone booking a holiday so not so much of an issue.
When it was needed was when the issue first arose. I had 2 holiday's booked. One was trivial, but the other was a holiday of a lifetime. The travel organiser pleaded with me to take vouchers and I was amenable to it, until I weighed up the risks. The travel organiser was one of the good guys and gave me a full refund.
THEN was when the protection was needed to transfer the protection from the booked holiday to cover credit vouchers in lieu. Just about every other European country reacted to do so. We did nothing even though ABTA pleaded with the Govt. It put huge unnecessary strain on an industry and left many customers in limbo and at probably no cost at all. In fact it is possible cost more not to do it because by not doing so it will have forced companies out of business incurring a cost to the Govt and customers because of refunds companies had to make that could have been credit notes instead.
HMG has announced that vouchers for cancelled holidays due to covid 19 will be Atol protected meaning their money is protected even if the tour operator goes into adminstration
It is acts like this that really matter to the public, not the machinations of the political elite
Is Atol Atol protected? Probably needs to be at this rate.
Yes - HMG will step in if necessary.
Good move to protect the holiday industry by guaranteeing the voucher scheme
As we discussed many months ago, it is umpteen months after the rest of Europe reacted. So so stupid because it was then it was needed most. People worried about losing their money forcing travel firms out of business by requesting refunds that they would be happy to leave as credits, if the protection was available then. They were protected, until they took the credit.
If you remember I posted on here the information from the ABTA web site pleading with the Govt to do something, anything, just act to clarify. Months have passed. It is all too late now.
With respect it is not too late. Many thousands of holiday makers currently holding vouchers will be delighted, indeed I know three people currently holding vouchers
OK so not too late for say 5% but too late for the majority and when it was really needed. And frankly we are in buyer beware territory now for anyone booking a holiday.
When it was needed was when the issue first arose. I had 2 holiday's booked. One was trivial, but the other was a holiday of a lifetime. The travel organiser pleaded with me to take vouchers and I was amenable to it, until I weighed up the risks. The travel organiser was one of the good guys and gave me a full refund.
THEN was when the protection was needed to transfer the protection from the booked holiday to cover credit vouchers in lieu. Just about every other European country reacted to do so. We did nothing even though ABTA pleaded with the Govt. It put huge unnecessary strain on an industry and left many customers in limbo and at probably no cost at all. In fact it is possible cost more not to do it because by not doing so it will have forced companies out of business incurring a cost to the Govt and customers.
That evaluation of 5% vs the majority is entirely a convenient-for-the-argument assumption, is it not ?
No idea what the real numbers are, but it could be "say 75%".
HMG has announced that vouchers for cancelled holidays due to covid 19 will be Atol protected meaning their money is protected even if the tour operator goes into adminstration
It is acts like this that really matter to the public, not the machinations of the political elite
Is Atol Atol protected? Probably needs to be at this rate.
Yes - HMG will step in if necessary.
Good move to protect the holiday industry by guaranteeing the voucher scheme
As we discussed many months ago, it is umpteen months after the rest of Europe reacted. So so stupid because it was then it was needed most. People worried about losing their money forcing travel firms out of business by requesting refunds that they would be happy to leave as credits, if the protection was available then. They were protected, until they took the credit.
If you remember I posted on here the information from the ABTA web site pleading with the Govt to do something, anything, just act to clarify. Months have passed. It is all too late now.
With respect it is not too late. Many thousands of holiday makers currently holding vouchers will be delighted, indeed I know three people currently holding vouchers
And what about the holiday companies crippled by the lack of action.
I'm on Davey at 1.8 and it's a bet I'm confident of. Target 1.33 for possible close out.
Fpt.
Life was so shit for Northern working class types during the Tory years.
But wait. You got out, made good down south. Why didn't everyone else?
I was born and raised in the north, and moved to London at age 17 in 1968 to join IBM. I lived there for 7 years and hated it in Richmond and Twickenham area. Left there to move back north to get married. In 1978 we gave up on a future in the UK and moved to North America. We so much wanted to try again in the UK, moved back in 1998 with our daughter and eventually gave up and moved back here in 2005. Living in the UK is hard and expensive. We lived in Yorkshire. Where I was from everything from parking to eating out to medical care was so difficult and involved needless delays that we just gave up and came home. Even the price of petrol was nose bleed time.
I know. It can be tough. But people make their own decisions. You decided to leave the country which is absolutely fair enough.
But your hell of Richmond and Twickenham will be someone else's idea of heaven on earth. Especially if they bought their house there in 1975.
Yes, if you own a house or flat (crucial) and have an OK income (you don't need much, if the property is sorted) then Richmond-upon-Thames is one of the nicest places to live, in the entire world.
And I have seen a lot of the world.
You have a global city on your doorstep, great natural beauty a walk away, endless enormous parks, lots of history, beautiful world-class architecture. Also bars, restaurants, etc etc
It's a gorgeous spot. I cannot think of anywhere in America that matches it.
It’s 9,000 sq ft - that’s 3x larger than my house which is already on the large side. It’s only 1,300 psf
Oh Charles. For £12.5m you could buy something like 50 fairly decent houses (not as nice as that one admittedly) in Dundee. A house like that would be £500k tops.
That house isn't even in Richmond; it's in Barnes which is a very poor relation by reputation. Plus you could have Tim Henman for a neighbour .
What!!
Ooops. Forgot that we had the Honourable Member .
I've always seen Barnes as a place or space and garden compared to others, that happens to be 13 minutes from Bank on the tube (or it was when I was living in London).
Time to go for my daily exercise and weight for the thread to move to the suburbs.
I ventured for my first haircut in four months yesteday and all was good.
Appointment only, hand sanitised at door, face mask worn at all times, staff in ppe, and payment at the chair in cash as they are waiting for a contact less machine
Cost £10 and I gave her a £5 tip wishing her every success.
It is a high tip but they are only doing 2 haircuts per hour rather than 4 and I really want them to succeed
Well done, Big G. That was exactly my attitude when I popped in for shearing this week.
HMG has announced that vouchers for cancelled holidays due to covid 19 will be Atol protected meaning their money is protected even if the tour operator goes into adminstration
It is acts like this that really matter to the public, not the machinations of the political elite
Is Atol Atol protected? Probably needs to be at this rate.
Yes - HMG will step in if necessary.
Good move to protect the holiday industry by guaranteeing the voucher scheme
As we discussed many months ago, it is umpteen months after the rest of Europe reacted. So so stupid because it was then it was needed most. People worried about losing their money forcing travel firms out of business by requesting refunds that they would be happy to leave as credits, if the protection was available then. They were protected, until they took the credit.
If you remember I posted on here the information from the ABTA web site pleading with the Govt to do something, anything, just act to clarify. Months have passed. It is all too late now.
With respect it is not too late. Many thousands of holiday makers currently holding vouchers will be delighted, indeed I know three people currently holding vouchers
OK so not too late for say 5% but too late for the majority and when it was really needed. And frankly we are in buyer beware territory now for anyone booking a holiday.
When it was needed was when the issue first arose. I had 2 holiday's booked. One was trivial, but the other was a holiday of a lifetime. The travel organiser pleaded with me to take vouchers and I was amenable to it, until I weighed up the risks. The travel organiser was one of the good guys and gave me a full refund.
THEN was when the protection was needed to transfer the protection from the booked holiday to cover credit vouchers in lieu. Just about every other European country reacted to do so. We did nothing even though ABTA pleaded with the Govt. It put huge unnecessary strain on an industry and left many customers in limbo and at probably no cost at all. In fact it is possible cost more not to do it because by not doing so it will have forced companies out of business incurring a cost to the Govt and customers.
That evaluation of 5% vs the majority is entirely a convenient-for-the-argument assumption, is it not ?
No idea what the real numbers are, but it could be "say 75%".
Yes I did entirely make up the number and I have absolutely no idea.
Logically though it was then that it was an issue so no I am pretty sure it isn't 75% and of course it was then that the damage was done to the industry and the worry caused to the customers.
Now of course the industry has adapted re the booking, knowing that a cancellation may occur so is much more flexible re payment so the protection is probably even less valuable than pre Covid days.
Of course it is better that they have done this now than not at all, but boy has the horse bolted big time.
Want to hazard a guess at the actual percentage? I can't think of anyone now who books a holiday isn't fully aware of the risk they are taking and are weighing it accordingly. I am planning one for Sept, but it will be a low risk, book late job.
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London is different, it is a city of the world where the rich of the world come to play. We benefit from this and should not begrudge it but I am glad I don't have to live there.
Of course in the world of Covid we are all taking instructions remotely from clients pretty much all of the time. The argument that this impedes the defence is going to be harder to make.
It’s an endless round of parties with the same people talking about who said what to who. Ugh *shudders*
SARS-CoV-2 infection induces robust, neutralizing antibody responses that are stable for at least three months
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.14.20151126v1.full.pdf
Questions regarding the robustness, functionality and longevity of the antibody response to the virus remain unanswered. Here we report that the vast majority of infected individuals with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 experience robust IgG antibody responses against the viral spike protein, based on a dataset of 19,860 individuals screened at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. We also show that titers are stable for at least a period approximating three months, and that anti-spike binding titers significantly correlate with neutralization of authentic SARS-CoV-2.
Our data suggests that more than 90% of seroconverters make detectible neutralizing antibody responses and that these titers are stable for at least the near-term future.
For my own part I will wear one in confined spaces and small shops, despite my copd, but outside in town and generally I will keep to social distancing without a mask which I do not like wearing due to copd
It is acts like this that really matter to the public, not the machinations of the political elite
Agreed. Its why I have reservations about the endemic use of masks. Its not that I don't believe them to be useful at the margins, its more that they create a mindset of caution and fear. Hopefully we will get used to them.
That's the trouble with Londoners, they think it's the be all and end all. There are other places to live than Richmond. I've never been to Richmond, have no interest in ever going there and will hopefully never have to go there. I'm certain I can find exactly the same peace and happiness, with amazing green spaces, access to cities, parks and places of interest where I live. Or in other parts of the country. Probably.
And the river.
Good move to protect the holiday industry by guaranteeing the voucher scheme
£150-200 psf sounds quite low for the Peak District, especially for smaller places. Attractive.
I have a mate developing acre plots in a wooded area around here, and his peak number is something like £250 psf. We are not as salubrious as the Peaks.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-53452080/why-i-fell-in-love-with-irish-dancing
Completely bonkers, but entirely consistent with the arguments of those who go around accusing other people of cultural appropriation.
Good if you want to send your sons to St Paul's though.
If you remember I posted on here the information from the ABTA web site pleading with the Govt to do something, anything, just act to clarify. Months have passed. It is all too late now.
@UN
updated its #COVID19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan to $10.3 billion.
If we don't act NOW, the pandemic could
➡️ reverse decades of progress in poverty reduction
➡️ push 265M people to the brink of starvation
➡️ kill 1.67M people in low-income countries
And we worry about wearing masks And going to the pub.
Wear masks people, there’s a nasty virus going round. Just do it!
Guess it's only a 3 bed though.
For me the concept of cultural appropriation is basically a tool for bullying, or 'gaslighting' if you're a person who believes in wider application of that rather bizarre concept.
Not as good as the Levi Root one, but quite funny.
I am a leftie, I am not interested in their boring, petty arguments. Let's solve the big problems that actually matter, can't do that if we keep losing.
Clapham is younger and livelier, more “scene-y” with a better nightlife. Richmond is slightly older (Young couples), more space and parks, more a boutique lifestyle.
It is possible to do those things without respect, such as blackface as done in the last century, and that should be open to criticism.
When it was needed was when the issue first arose. I had 2 holiday's booked. One was trivial, but the other was a holiday of a lifetime. The travel organiser pleaded with me to take vouchers and I was amenable to it, until I weighed up the risks. The travel organiser was one of the good guys and gave me a full refund.
THEN was when the protection was needed to transfer the protection from the booked holiday to cover credit vouchers in lieu. Just about every other European country reacted to do so. We did nothing even though ABTA pleaded with the Govt. It put huge unnecessary strain on an industry and left many customers in limbo and at probably no cost at all. In fact it is possible cost more not to do it because by not doing so it will have forced companies out of business incurring a cost to the Govt and customers because of refunds companies had to make that could have been credit notes instead.
No idea what the real numbers are, but it could be "say 75%".
I've always seen Barnes as a place or space and garden compared to others, that happens to be 13 minutes from Bank on the tube (or it was when I was living in London).
Time to go for my daily exercise and weight for the thread to move to the suburbs.
Update: I see it has moved.
Logically though it was then that it was an issue so no I am pretty sure it isn't 75% and of course it was then that the damage was done to the industry and the worry caused to the customers.
Now of course the industry has adapted re the booking, knowing that a cancellation may occur so is much more flexible re payment so the protection is probably even less valuable than pre Covid days.
Of course it is better that they have done this now than not at all, but boy has the horse bolted big time.
Want to hazard a guess at the actual percentage? I can't think of anyone now who books a holiday isn't fully aware of the risk they are taking and are weighing it accordingly. I am planning one for Sept, but it will be a low risk, book late job.