I'm feeling a bit ranty today, guys. Bear with me.
- Methinks we could build a hell of a lot of houses on a single golf course. (There are 3 within 5 minutes' drive of my house, though I think we're in a bit of a hotspot.) Why do we need multiple golf courses in the city? Move them further out!
- WTF is up with the cost of building houses here? Yes, land is blood-curdlingly expensive, and the main component of house prices ... BUT you can buy freehold houses for dirt cheap in, say, parts of America, and they cost a fraction of what a house alone here costs (at least a couple hundred grand). In short: house + land in some parts of the world < a house without land here.
- So, there's going to be a study done on housing that includes a trial of minimum rental standards to gauge the effect on children's health. FFS people, do we really need to test something like this?! I despair.
This week's links
Our darkest financial fears
The plight of the blue collar male (in rich countries)
No big surprise: working at the Huffington Post is hell
Leaving radio, embracing podcastingA few reasons to ignore Google
