This is not sustainable or good for the city or for the UK.
We urgently need to decentralise the UK away from the city to help it let off some steam – not at the expense of the city of course.
Beyond the usual build better infrastructure elsewhere – what do you think some easy wins?
I’ll start: we need to stop producing so many movies and TV shows glamourising London. Not because they aren’t enjoyed or good, but because it gives a huge skew on people’s view of the country and options out there. Same goes for content on IG/TikTok. A good chunk people look to London because they are pursuing a fairytale they saw on some blonde bimbos IG or a cult movie and want to live that.
But what if we got more stories produced elsewhere to capture people’s imaginations in a different way?
Imagine if you had a friends like TV show, or a few more big movies, but set in other UK cities. Group of 26-32 year olds, able to afford homes next to each other, going on adventures to the Dales/Lakes, enjoying raves in industrial warehouses and everything in between. I’m not a story writer, but you can paint those images to show that – yes, there is life outside of London, and even if salaries are lower your disposable income to quality of life ratio is probably higher.
What ideas do you have?
by SnooDogs2478
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Yes OP, when you or I move to an area or decide where to buy, we decide based on factors that are critical and practical: friends, family, career, transportation, safety, amenities.
Those silly other people, they decide based on things like Instagram bimbos and TV shows.
It’s a weird coincidence but the silly people end up wanting to be in the same city as us sensible people!
Build more homes
How can you demand “serious replies only” in your flair with a description like that? What do you take the common folk for?
Build build build and lower immigration
Move the American candy shops to Birmingham and the exodus will happen.
Its called inflation. Inflation is the interest paid on the currency created. But to pay the interest more currency needs to be created. This is debasement of the Currency (not even money because is no longer ‘backed by anything). It is an exponential mathematical model. And we wonder why our ‘money buys less. And why Government cannot deliver. And why we are seeing an increased turnover of our Political Leaders. Because they do not have the answers, even if they know the causes. Federal Reserve Act 1913. Bretton Woods 1944. Nixon 1972. Fiat Currency. Everyone should study. And the questions in the graph will be answered.
As a Londoner, I want more investment outside of London, to provide more opportunities for other parts of the country, make other places more attractive so that people might want to move there, making London prices more competitive.
“a few more big movies, but set in other UK cities”
Hey now, what about Trainspotting?
we can’t build fast enough to satisfy the demand. even when we do build, people are priced out by developers looking to make a fat profit charging above the house value to first time buyers. there needs to be an overhaul of people owning multiple properties especially in london. no one person needs to own more than three properties. owning a max of three would mean the rental market is still there for people who don’t want to own, but forces people into selling any they have over that number meaning the market would be flooded with availability and bring the prices down. the reason this won’t happen is because the people making these decisions all own multiple properties and want to protect their assets.
A good chunk of people live here cos we’re from here, not because we have weird misogynist views on women’s Instagrams.
London needs rent controls. The pricing isn’t driven by homeowners, it’s driven by corporate landlords squeezing more out every year. They are doing nothing to improve housing stock, so there is no advantage in supporting them.
We just need to pay people more and build more houses
Seriously maybe we should reconsider the green belt. Maybe not all of it but maybe we could live with a third less?
I think the current situation in London is less caused by regular people who is influenced by tv shows, and more of a doing of the ultra rich hoarding property in the city. All around the globe, dirty money flooded in to the UK as it is one of the de facto safe havens for it. The medium of carrying those money was buying property in London, for a very long time. Probably still it is. Combining with the fact that property density being quite low in London, when compared with other most significant capitals (which I think is one of the best aspects of London, by the way), it quickly resulted in that less and less houses to buy for average blue/white collar worker.
Rather than regulating the media, I think public servants should do their actual work, which is regulating the money, bureaucracy, and do some new policy making which doesn’t only favor the filthy rich.
Something I find odd about this is that it is basically proven that people become more conservative after they become a homeowner so the conservatives really should have prioritised l it because it directly benefits them politically.
The only reason I think they haven’t is that they are all home owners and therefore there’s not an incentive to bring the price down in that way.
> A good chunk people look to London
because they are pursuing a fairytale they saw on
some blonde bimbos IG or a cult movie and want to
live that.
I’m sorry what? People move to London because of economic opportunities.
Feel free to lead this and move away, we don’t want your misogynistic arseholery around here
“ A good chunk people look to London because they are pursuing a fairytale they saw on some blonde bimbos IG or a cult movie and want to live that.”
No they don’t.
we need more than imaginations captured in other parts of the country, we need investment
I’m sorry but your solution of setting less movies in London is objectively hilarious and blind to the actual problems
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