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That's an interesting report, although as you say it is a shame it didn't extend to non-english speaking countries.

I feel as though I am destined to rent for life, unless I  buy with another person.  I have a good salary as well but for the mortgage that I can afford, there is nothing worth investing my money in, or nothing I can afford that will give me a decent enough standard of accommodation.

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 06:06:13 AM EST

it didn't extend to non-english speaking countries.

A "non-english speaking countries"? what's that strange concept? Does it even exist?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 09:49:22 AM EST
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It's a bit difficult to come up with a name for this group of countries, even though they're always lumped together, and even though we all seem to know why that is the case.  I was thinking WASP countries, but that doesn't really work in majority-Catholic Ireland or the heavily German and Irish states.

I'm certain there is a good joke in there somewhere, but I got nothin'.

(hangs head)

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 10:53:18 AM EST
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I also found this odd.  I can't recall running across this designation before.

The only thing I can immediately think of to explain this, is that since it is about housing, I wonder if there is a tendency for English speaking people to want to move to, perhaps retire to, English speaking countries.  (and perhaps this would also apply to French and other original language speakers).

For my purposes, this report is very valuable now, but would be moreso if it covered a broader geography--particularly Europe for what I'm doing.

by wchurchill on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 01:39:31 PM EST
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