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Ha, yes, although the top of the market isn't that big, it's kind of niche, but like you say it's rammed down our throats all the time. No estate agent is going to pay to print glossy brochures of the 36.4% of local authority housing stock in Islington which is below Decent Home Standard are they?
We have one of those next door but one, it's a massive glass thing which I won't call modernist because that would be an insult to modernism, but it is modern in the broad sense. There's even a fecking stone bhudda in the back garden. Talk about cliched.
The owner drives a 3.2 litre fancypants Audi and takes the family off on bikes every weekend, no doubt to the countryside where he as no fear of his little darlings being ran over by 3.2 litre Audis or stabbed.
Thatcher vastly worsened the housing crisis, but it's all capitalism really innit. Makes me angry.
I'm off to rub some proofide into my Brookes before I go to bed so I can stop thinking about it all!