Originally Posted by dunroving (Post 5327151)

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Goatman328 (Post 5327242)

I would try to explain, but I doubt that mass of malfunctioning neurological deadweight and fermented cheese that constitutes your brain would be able to comprehend the meaning. I doubt the previous sentence even registered properly. :rofl:

Originally Posted by Goatman328 (Post 5327242)

I would try to explain, but I doubt that mass of malfunctioning neurological deadweight and fermented cheese that constitutes your brain would be able to comprehend the meaning. I doubt the previous sentence even registered properly. :rofl:

Originally Posted by dunroving (Post 5327282)

I think you walked into the wrong bar, mate.

Originally Posted by Scout (Post 5327364)

Actually he's spot on about the dollar falling even more......and if the Fed cuts rates again.........it's not going to be pretty.

Originally Posted by Scout (Post 5327364)

The upside of the cut is that the housing market may pick up in the States and house sales may begin to move again a bit instead of remaining stagnant. people moving to the UK from the US need to sell their US houses when they move and they can't sell them if no one is buying. Of course when it comes time to transfer their dollars back to the UK......it won't be a pretty sight. :(

Dunroving, not everyone in the BTL field is posh ya know. My husband is from a working class background and he had several BTL properties here in the UK before he moved to the States. He wasn't all that lucky with his timing either........his mother died, he inheritied a house and a small bit of money and invested it wisely. ............when we married he sold them to move to the States and invest over there...........and not a particularly great profit either..........but if he had kept them here he would to have put them with a property manager and where we are they are not that great at managing much of anything.

Originally Posted by dunroving (Post 5327434)

- I've been watching the news, and believe me I definitely am aware of the consequences for the dollar (as mine are still sitting there after 12 months, waiting to be converted to GBP, you could say I have my finger on the pulse). I merely think Mr/Mrs Goat is simply repeating sound bites from some blog - after all, his/her summation of the McCann case was "They did it" and "They're guilty". Not exactly a reasoned, intelligent analysis of the situation.



- I don't think I said that everyone in the BTL field is posh, but a certain sector of BTL ownership (I think I referred to them as the fat cats) has been snatching up houses and apartments off-plan, often at considerable discount to the regular person who is looking for somewhere to call home. I think the BTL business has got out of hand and is partly responsible for driving up demand and therefore prices. In some areas around here they have introduced legal covenants to prevent the purchase of homes by people (a) who don't live locally and (b) do not intend to live in the house. There was a good article in the Times a while back about the dangers of looking at houses as an investment/pension fund: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle2195714.ece

[Just checked that link and it no longer works, sorry. I'll try to see if it's been archived and post the new link]

Originally Posted by dunroving (Post 5327434)

- I've been watching the news, and believe me I definitely am aware of the consequences for the dollar (as mine are still sitting there after 12 months, waiting to be converted to GBP, you could say I have my finger on the pulse). I merely think Mr/Mrs Goat is simply repeating sound bites from some blog - after all, his/her summation of the McCann case was "They did it" and "They're guilty". Not exactly a reasoned, intelligent analysis of the situation.

Originally Posted by Goatman328 (Post 5319592)

Hello. I hope everyone realizes that within 6 months the USA and UK, along with probably most of the westernized world will be in the midst of a recession. I hope you all consider this whenever you decide to move.

Originally Posted by dunroving (Post 5327151)

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Scout (Post 5327515)

I wish I could tell you it will improve soon, but since I have been watching the dollar/pound since 2001..........it has only continued to get worse. Cross your fingers that a Democrat with some sense gets elected as President next year and the dollar begins to strengthen. I don't see anything good happening to the dollar until at least Bush is gone that's for sure.

I don't follow Mr Goat's posts so I wasn't privy to his summation of the McCann case.....you didn't ask.......but IMHO regarding the McCann's....I don't know if they are guilty or not.......a lot of things on that case do not add up ............but I do think parents, expecially parents who are Doctors should have more sense than to leave 3 children alone while they have dinner in a restaurant (and I don't care that it was close by either) ....If they had been working class they NEVER would have been given the royal treatment by the Press and others that they have been given.

Originally Posted by Scout (Post 5327515)

If they had been working class they NEVER would have been given the royal treatment by the Press and others that they have been given.

Originally Posted by Fleaflyfloflum (Post 5327308)

Awwww feel for him DR.

Maybe this goat is standing on a loose Northern Rock about to slide off the cliff. He's suffering from stress. You are his outlet. :p:rofl:

Originally Posted by Mercedes (Post 5329089)

Interesting that for approx 22/23 years both were considered working class, both from humble roots. When they got their degree and became doctors they suddenly became middle class, so they haven't been middle class for that long.