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Forum: USA
Oct 18th 2007, 2:05 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 2,189
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Any Brits in Naples area?

Thanks. I'm a Realtor here in Atlanta so I have made some connections down there already. Chances are if we move - big if still - it will be in the Fort Myers area or the towns north of Naples....
Forum: USA
Oct 17th 2007, 2:27 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 2,189
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Any Brits in Naples area?

Yes. I used to travel that territory a few years ago. Love the winters.....but I'm no fan of heat and humidity.Summers here in Atlanta can be tough. My wife seems to thrive in the high heat tho' so I...
Forum: USA
Oct 16th 2007, 7:49 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 2,189
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Any Brits in Naples area?

Possibly we'll be there soon ourselves. My wife is considering a job offer there and I'm self employed so could be on for Spring 08. I'd be surprised if there weren't any there besides you.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 16th 2007, 7:44 pm
Replies: 195
Views: 5,803
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Walmart - the end of an era

[QUOTE=Tracym;5432761]It's not so much not caring.

As far as capping litigation, well I dunno. There's a balance between not having ridiculous awards, and discouraging doctors from being careless...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 14th 2007, 9:41 pm
Replies: 195
Views: 5,803
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Walmart - the end of an era

[QUOTE=Tracym;5424040]So what's the answer? Outlaw large stores? Outlaw low prices?

The answer in communities that realise the threat of WalMart is to do what many have - fight it at the...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 14th 2007, 9:30 pm
Replies: 59
Views: 23,409
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Remember the old TV ads and jingles?

Back in the 70's Smith's Crisps had a huge share of the market - probably close to 90%. I worked for Ross Foods, a div of Imperial Tobacco and they also owned a large potato operation nr Peterborough...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 14th 2007, 4:29 pm
Replies: 59
Views: 23,409
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Remember the old TV ads and jingles?

Exceedingly good cakes..... remember the Hovis TV ad? Kid's dad was a baker. When the smell of the fresh bread wafted up into his bedroom.......
" I knew it were ready and time to gerrup" Can't do...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 14th 2007, 4:21 pm
Replies: 195
Views: 5,803
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Walmart - the end of an era

What's the price of low prices to the community? The small stores die leaving boarded up stores on Main Street. There are then less jobs overall and mostly at lower wages with weak or non-existent...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 14th 2007, 4:02 pm
Replies: 59
Views: 23,409
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Remember the old TV ads and jingles?

Hamlet Cigar ads were a classic.....
An ex-boss of mine created the campaign for Strand cigarettes in the 60's (?). The theme was "you're never alone with a Strand" and the TV commercial showed a...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 13th 2007, 8:05 pm
Replies: 59
Views: 23,409
Posted By David Richardson

Remember the old TV ads and jingles?

My favorite ad as a kid in the UK was for Farrow's Canned Peas. The peas came tumbling down a slide and rushed through a grill presumably into the canning plant. The larger peas were stopped short by...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 13th 2007, 7:54 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 557
Posted By David Richardson

Re: New BBC News

Were there any?
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 13th 2007, 7:47 pm
Replies: 195
Views: 5,803
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Walmart - the end of an era

Wonder how much impact groups like 'Wake Up Walmart' had in this? There were several activist groups fighting Walmart expansion and wage policies etc...not to mention several class action lawsuits...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Sep 24th 2007, 12:32 am
Replies: 73
Views: 2,280
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Select a Candidate for 2008

I knew it - Kucinich also. Dennis is the closest thing to a genuine lefty in Congress. The rest are essentially centrists.
Forum: USA
Sep 19th 2007, 1:15 am
Replies: 398
Views: 17,806
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Help wanted WW2!

Well I think it's common knowledge that many Members of Congress and other Americans didn't want to be involved in 'Europe's War' from the beginning - 1939 for us, remember? There were many...
Forum: USA
Sep 18th 2007, 6:17 pm
Replies: 398
Views: 17,806
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Help wanted WW2!

Do a google search - FDR/threat of impeachment - and you'll discover the GOP openly discussed it to punish FDR for talking with Winston Churchill pre-war about Hitler and the setting up of an...
Forum: USA
Sep 17th 2007, 11:07 pm
Replies: 398
Views: 17,806
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Help wanted WW2!

Rob, tell them U-Boats were circling 10 miles off Manhattan before the US even came into the war. Imagine if the UK had capitulated as easily as the French that might have left Hitler with much more...
Forum: USA
Sep 1st 2007, 3:31 pm
Replies: 70
Views: 77,916
Posted By David Richardson

Re: US House Prices

[
Are they overbuilding at all in your neck of the woods? They have done so here in my town, IMHO, which is a bedroom community for Savannah. They built what COULD have been an attractive condo...
Forum: USA
Sep 1st 2007, 1:22 pm
Replies: 70
Views: 77,916
Posted By David Richardson

Re: US House Prices

It may be "Buyer's Market" in that there are less buyers than sellers, but that doesn't equate to it being the "good time to buy" that realtors love to claim. In fact, with prices relative to income...
Forum: USA
Aug 28th 2007, 1:49 am
Replies: 70
Views: 77,916
Posted By David Richardson

Re: US House Prices

Another time had an agreed sale price 100k below the builder's asking price (Former model home too).

Former model home - often among the last to get listed and usually close to the front, for...
Forum: USA
Aug 27th 2007, 9:54 pm
Replies: 70
Views: 77,916
Posted By David Richardson

Re: US House Prices

[We bought new 18 months ago. About 8 months after us, friends signed for an identical house, on a smaller lot (approx 4000' smaller), we've got waterfront, they havent. They paid approx 15% more...
Forum: USA
Aug 25th 2007, 6:55 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 614
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Renewing GC Without an Expiration Date

Hey, Ray...thanks for posting that link. I had no idea this was happening.
Forum: USA
Aug 25th 2007, 6:50 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 614
Posted By David Richardson

Re: Renewing GC Without an Expiration Date

[QUOTE=Ray;5223241]U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published a proposed rule in the Federal Register today that will require approximately 750,000 lawful permanent residents carrying ‘green...
Forum: USA
Aug 24th 2007, 6:05 pm
Replies: 70
Views: 77,916
Posted By David Richardson

Re: US House Prices

Yes, you're right my statement was inaccurate. There have not been 30% price drops across the board in CA or FL but there have been examples like it - foreclosures, pre-foreclosures and corporate...
Forum: USA
Aug 24th 2007, 5:57 pm
Replies: 70
Views: 77,916
Posted By David Richardson

Re: US House Prices

Yes .....but we try not to intermarry. The gene pool is murky enough.....
Forum: USA
Aug 24th 2007, 2:10 pm
Replies: 70
Views: 77,916
Posted By David Richardson

Re: US House Prices

Presume you mean 'falling' across the country......
Full disclosure - I am a Realtor ( whole board wakes up and prepares their best Realtor jokes and warnings) in GA and can tell you that in some...
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