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Boo bloody hoo. Are we in 'the provinces' meant to feel sorry for Londoners? Are you shitting me?
by vermooten 11y ago
Boo bloody hoo. Are we in 'the provinces' meant to feel sorry for Londoners? Are you shitting me?
- techsupporter 11y agoSure, since it's happening on this side of the pond, too. "The provinces" have their own messes, like Toronto and Vancouver and Montreal (to some extent). Same in "the colonies," like: San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Austin, the Bronx and Brooklyn (ways you know the real estate market has gone bonkers: people are buying in Manhattan because it's cheaper than Brooklyn). Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland are getting the exact same double-whammy as London: very popular places to live along with very popular places for foreign investment. Schadenfreude doesn't help anybody, really.
- threedaymonk 11y agoIn a British context, "the provinces" is a rather pejorative expression for the rest of the country outside London. It doesn't refer to Canada.
- KaiserPro 11y agoWe are pushing up your house prices. Anything that is within 3 hours of central london is now 50-200% more valuable than it should be.