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@elretardo87 310097 wrote:

With everything back at a realistic value, i.e the pound is no longer artificially inflated, it should attract investors as we are a nation with the infrastructure required for modern industrial growth.[/quote]

everything is not back at a realistic value though. houses are still at phenomenal multiples of most people’s incomes. utilities are some of the highest in the developed world. transportation & travel costs more in england than anywhere else in europe, if not the world.

no companies or countries are considering investing here as our financial system is currently to most unstable in EU… invest to potentially find the massive national debt repayments either bankrupt the country or get called in as rising commercial taxes? no chance

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Anyway I don’t really mind either way if it all gets better I will finish my degree and move to Spain away from it all.

what are you planning to do in spain?

@p0lygon-Window 310303 wrote:

man reading this just puts my views on this country on a bit of a downer, dont think i like this thread very much :laugh_at:

thing is i’m old enough to have lived through a recession before, but the last time this country actually had a lot more going for it, despite years of abuse under thatcher (* hawk, spit) and major

to me there are 2 massive issues that are going to cause radical change to the way we live in the next 20 years… the false economics the world is built on and climate change, which is a symptom of that insistence that economies must grow

but virtually no-one is even acknowledging that, let alone doing something about it

i don’t want to put people on a downer… i want people to think about what they might do to soften the fall

does anyone else wonder why our freedoms have been so aggressively eroded for the last 10 years? could it be that the government realises that there is going to significant civil unrest and it putting in place the tools to police the people to such an extent that their positions of privilege are protected, at the expense of the people?

surely not :apathy:

@elretardo87 310333 wrote:

Smoke dope, grow tomatoes and generally chill for the next 50 years or so.

Its a bit more complicated than that but that’s the most important part.

good luck with that.

although the commercial tomato growers have already caused serious damage to the water table in parts of southern spain. i can’t remember the name of the festival in the south that takes place on a dried out river bed at the foot of mountains that used to be the source of water for a huge area. i think the festival started as a protest against the farming practises (like using poly-tunnels on dry river beds) that is seriously damaging a fertile land and accelerating the spread north of the sahara.

dunno if anyone else can remember the name of the annual event i’m on about?

@elretardo87 310344 wrote:

Not much its a bit cold out, when it gets a bit warmer I have my grandma’s whole garden at my disposal so usually potatoes, strawberries, raspberries, tomatoes, chillis, peppers, tobacco and melons.

I want to put in a couple apple trees and some onions but I can’t really be arsed with any more work.

how to you get your tomatoes, chillis, peppers, and melons to ripen in the garden????

on how long do you get fruit for?

edit: onions and trees would seem like far LESS work