Spain haunted by ghost towns built during boom years Read more: http://www.dailymail

[mikebratcher69]

Again this is similsr to parts of the U.k. wherby you see industrial estates built and empty as well as new housing estates etc...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...llion.html

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From what I can see we're in a stasis bubble at the moment, we as a nation seem exempt from the most harsh changes happening elsewhere in the world but for how long?
I thought we would have started on the hard part like other countries, yet we seem not to have, which I find odd.
Is the government putting it off ? if so how? will the end result be a big steeper, harder,slide than other countries have experienced ?
People you see seem so oblivious to anything thats going on, it seems like I'm living in a different world even to my O.H. sometimes who thinks I'm crazy for prepping as I do, she says nothing but you know the "look" you get from the disbelievers...

[Skean Dhude]

You don't see many empty houses in the UK because the cost so much here due to planning laws.

Our problem is we can't get anyone to set up a business and who can blame them.

[bigpaul]

we know of quite a few empty properties but apart from squatting in them, what can we do about them? our local council dosent even have an "empty homes officer".

[Scythe13]

(16 February 2012, 17:27)Skean Dhude Wrote: You don't see many empty houses in the UK because the cost so much here due to planning laws.

That's a surprise. Especially living up North SD.

If you go around Liverpool or Manchester, you'll find LOADS of empty houses. When I was working for Nestle and was out on the road, I would go to places like Burnley and Bolton, and there were places that were empty houses all along a street! No joke or exageration. I took a photo of it, I was that shocked.

[Skean Dhude]

Well I stand corrected. I know there are a few houses unoccupied but I must confess I am surprised at that. Very few houses around where I live.

[uks]

I think it was Liverpool selling off houses for a fiver a few years ago. Just to get people moving in and do up what were empty boarded up properties. We are talking whole streets of empty houses.

[bigpaul]

(17 February 2012, 00:17)uks Wrote: I think it was Liverpool selling off houses for a fiver a few years ago. Just to get people moving in and do up what were empty boarded up properties. We are talking whole streets of empty houses.

i wish i could buy a house for a fiver

[Kenneth Eames]

I'd like a house for a fiver as well. Kenneth Eames.

[Scythe13]

I've got £10. Give me a mansion haha.

When I get my own house, I'm digging up the back garden and building me a bunker/shelter, with trap door, and all that kind of thing.