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House Prices Force Americans To Sleep In Cars
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-22-2008 | Catherine Elsworth

Posted on 05/22/2008 7:48:19 AM PDT by blam

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To: blam

The Europeans have a pretty inaccurate view of America. How many people have you seen living in cars? Not too many where I live. Can’t say I’ve seen any, in fact.


21 posted on 05/22/2008 8:04:50 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: RegulatorCountry

“There are parts of this country where Ms. Harvey could support herself and have a roof over her head for this amount.”

This is the problem. The same applies to people who live in hurricane-plagued areas. “Its our right to live where we want —— and its your responsibility to take care of me!”

As Mark Levin, Andrew Wilkow or Mike Church (I forget which) say, freedom comes with responsibility. If she wants to live in Santa Barbara, she should bear the costs.

End of story.


22 posted on 05/22/2008 8:05:38 AM PDT by whitedog57
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To: blam

Whatever happened to “saving for a rainy day”? Living beyond your means is really stupid...believing that government will take care of you is not true no matter how many politicians tell you that......


23 posted on 05/22/2008 8:05:42 AM PDT by yoe ( Socialism with Obama or Clinton - Democracy with McCain)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Right. SS probably $1000+/mth, PT job, let’s say 20 hours a week= another $640 a month.

Interesting that she keeps the dogs, but the 19 yr. old moved in with someone else to “avoid being homeless.” Wonder if the 19 yr. old pays rent?


24 posted on 05/22/2008 8:05:51 AM PDT by gate2wire
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To: hsalaw

A loan processor could get a job working on foreclosure paper work in a town with lower rents.
I’m tired of sob stories of people who should have more sense. Get out of SB and find a job..Oklahoma has got low unemployment and lots of oil field jobs. Low housing costs. You just have to reform and vote GOP. I know that will be tough for her after all the Rats have done for her.


25 posted on 05/22/2008 8:06:49 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: blam
Live your life!
Live it in a Honda
(Live it in a Honda)
26 posted on 05/22/2008 8:07:23 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: MEGoody
House Prices Force Americans To Sleep In Cars

"Force"??? Sounds like this was a choice for the person in this article. Of course the MSM can make up anything they want.

27 posted on 05/22/2008 8:08:01 AM PDT by DesertSapper (God, Family, Country . . . . . . . . . . and dead terrorists!!!)
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To: blam
This problem is rampant!!!!! Something must be done!!!

Quick, let's have Congress pass some laws penalizing some ligitimate businesses over this!! It's the New American Way, dontcha know...
28 posted on 05/22/2008 8:11:56 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter Lifetime ACU Rating: 92 (any combo will do, fellas))
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To: henkster
The UK tabloids are worthless.

The Telegraph isn't a tabloid.It is,I believe,the second most widely read paper in the UK and is a broadsheet.Very well respected....like the Times of London and very much unlike the Daily Mail and The Sun (both tabloids).

29 posted on 05/22/2008 8:12:33 AM PDT by SayNoToDems
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To: blam
She's 67 and collecting SS. All states have subsidized Senior housing: Rent at 30% of your income. If her income is low enough...Free medical..food stamps. The story sounds like "half-truth".

Uh...67, three ADULT children???

30 posted on 05/22/2008 8:13:03 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: bmwcyle

Yep. Alot of people would like to believe that this is just a problem for idiots.

However, there are alot of young couples and people who saw house prices going up and up and tried to get in while they could afford it.

Now a large portion of their income goes to the mortgage, and gas and food continue to rise.

Maybe others don’t, but I feel for them and I don’t think it’s always due to stupidity when people fall on hard times.


31 posted on 05/22/2008 8:16:56 AM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: blam

She could probably afford this $400k place in a western suburb of Cleveland. What? Too cold in the winter. Tough

http://realtyone.realliving.com/Property/Details.aspx?PropID=9708191

Or this cheapo for $235k.

http://realtyone.realliving.com/Property/Details.aspx?PropID=8670162

Or this slum for $165k.

http://realtyone.realliving.com/Property/Details.aspx?PropID=9619890

Bring some skills and you CAN find a job. And you can build snowmen in the winter.


32 posted on 05/22/2008 8:19:07 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: SayNoToDems
"The Telegraph isn't a tabloid.It is,I believe,the second most widely read paper in the UK and is a broadsheet.Very well respected....like the Times of London and very much unlike the Daily Mail and The Sun (both tabloids). "

And, one of the most conservative in the UK.

33 posted on 05/22/2008 8:19:57 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

1. Don’t live in Santa Barbara is it really expensive there.
2. Why aren’t your children taking you in.
3. Get rid of the dogs so you can get a small apartment.
4. Move it is expensive in Santa Barbara you putz.


34 posted on 05/22/2008 8:20:19 AM PDT by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: henkster
The UK tabloids are worthless.,

No, they are critically neccesary for managing the helpless subjects.

Just as North Korea has convinced its property that life is worth elsewhere, their "well-reared" little journalists scour the Globe desperatley for stories like this, written by their little Socialist counterparts elsewhere.

Otherwise, their nasty and vicious government would get what it deserves.

35 posted on 05/22/2008 8:25:00 AM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: blam
sleeping in one of the two women-only car park refuges

Discrimination against men.

36 posted on 05/22/2008 8:27:29 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: randog

Probably because of the dogs.


37 posted on 05/22/2008 8:36:09 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: blam
This from England where 85% of the population lives in walkup flats with less room than a medium-sized SUV, a shared bath down the hall and look like they slept in their clothes for the past week.

and it takes 6 weeks to get a Doctor appointment. (Dentistry is unheard of)

38 posted on 05/22/2008 8:36:26 AM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out Of Qurans)
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To: goldstategop

I was in S. Cal last week, and it is the most amazing place. San Diego, OC, and LA all have absolutely beautiful place, so much to do, great weather and beaches. If not for the price tag and the sad state of affairs out there I would move there in a minute. I can see how so many people stay despite the problems.


39 posted on 05/22/2008 8:37:38 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Moonman62

Did you see the article, yesterday about the Democrat Congress woman from Sacramento, who let her house go into foreclosure?

She signed a no down payment, no payments for two years mortgage agreement, then when the paymets were due to start, she walked away, owing more than she borrowed.


40 posted on 05/22/2008 8:39:30 AM PDT by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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