Advice from Old PeopleSometimes, just sometimes, old people say something worth listening to. Ok, so it's like picking the needle out of a whole haystack of mis-remembered war stories, but those gems should be celebrated.
Tell us something worthwhile an old-type person has told you.
Note, we're leaving the definition of old up to you, you smooth-skinned youngsters.
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chthonic, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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The problem isis that bits of cities get run down and shit. And they need redevelopment. But in order to get a company to redevelop them the incentive is to make as much money as possible, therefore you try and cram as many houses or flats onto the smallest bit of land possible.
And since the planning laws have been raped to make it easier for the government to get away with building airports and power stations, which understandable no-one wants near them (although the power station thing is whole other debate) it means people get really jumpy that pretty much anything can get forced on them.
For example, I bought a place last year, and they are threatening to put a massive development just down the road, and it will screw up my chance of being able to park near my house in the evening, or on saturdays, which is going to make my house far less desirable when I come to sell it.
I've kind of lost where I'm going with this. I'm just grumpy about the whole thing.
(, Tue 24 Jun 2008, 17:16, Reply)
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