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I suspect there's at least a grain of truth to what you write. The housing stock (even newly built) in the UK is atrocious. The quality is really poor, unless

I suspect there's at least a grain of truth to what you write. The housing stock (even newly built) in the UK is atrocious. The quality is really poor, unless you pay a massive premium. And I agree with you: it all looks the same dreary brown. Everything has to be identical baby diarrhea brown and the same design. And somehow nobody seems to be keen to demolish and replace the terrible 60s-70s houses either. Why is that? It costs too much? Or someone, somewhere actually enforces that the design must remain as it is? I have yet to see a new development where I can say: oh this looks nice and positive. I don't know who to blame for this, whether it's some funky conservation societies who wield way too much power, or whether it is self inflicted dreariness that people somehow like.

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> oh this looks nice and positive There's no positivity left. All the positive people, as I said, were encouraged to leave. What's left is hugely corrupt local councils (that control planning) all staffed by the most bitter venal types you've ever met who all have the same mentality - 'I can't fix it myself but if I let someone else fix it for me that means they're better than me, and I can't accept that' so they choose to rule over ruins than step aside. Usually combined with lots of racism and alcoholism. It all shows through in the television. The cynicism and sarcasm that pervades British television is so telling once you see it from a distance. > whether it is self inflicted dreariness that people somehow like They do seem to like it, unfortunately.