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[Psamathe]

Exactly this. Also in France you have to factor in the large taxes when houses are sold (c.10% of purchase price). And potential capital gains tax imposed by France on non-nationals. And local inheritance laws. (I know someone affected by the last category: they had started the process of selling, but the husband died unexpectedly, and now the widow is caught up in a legal minefield bringing everything to a standstill, and having to involve a stepson who'd been disinherited in the UK, but who *must* receive his share of the French house proceeeds.)

In my day also if an asset needed to be sold yet any of those inheriting were not yet old enough to be "adult" then the asset cannot be sold until they became adult. A contributory reason why there used to be so many ruins available for UK people to buy and renovate as property probably already in need of tidying up had then been sitting empty for 10 years.

And then if SAFER get involved and vendor does not like their offer and has to withdraw sale. Selling my property in France had to go through SAFER but I managed to avoid them deciding they wanted to but at a price they'd set.

 

[briantrumpet]

In my day also if an asset needed to be sold yet any of those inheriting were not yet old enough to be "adult" then the asset cannot be sold until they became adult. A contributory reason why there used to be so many ruins available for UK people to buy and renovate as property probably already in need of tidying up had then been sitting empty for 10 years.

And then if SAFER get involved and vendor does not like their offer and has to withdraw sale. Selling my property in France had to go through SAFER but I managed to avoid them deciding they wanted to but at a price they'd set.

Ah, I didn't realise that. That might explain why so many properties seem to sit there doing nothing for so long, then 'boom!"

 

[briantrumpet]

Make of this what you will. But it does make Reform's polling slightly bemusing, taken at face value. Surprised at the difference between Britain and France too.

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm normally fairly sanguine about most things, but would it be OK to allow a bit of paranoia to creep in when it comes to Meta's Pervglasses?

 

[C R]

I'm normally fairly sanguine about most things, but would it be OK to allow a bit of paranoia to creep in when it comes to Meta's Pervglasses?

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I'm hoping this goes the way Google's glassholes went.

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm hoping this goes the way Google's glassholes went.

They deserve to be legislated out of existence, for a whole pile of reasons.

 

[Ian H]

Make of this what you will. But it does make Reform's polling slightly bemusing, taken at face value. Surprised at the difference between Britain and France too.

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There are obviously a lot of smug bastards in Canada.

 

[briantrumpet]

There are obviously a lot of smug bastards in Canada.

They have got awkward neighbours though.

 

[Pblakeney]

They have got awkward neighbours though.

It is all relative. Are we nice? Well, look at them. Oh, yeah.

 

[briantrumpet]

Gosh.

 

[Pblakeney]

Gosh.

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Can we drop the 2026 demand on Farage's head?

 

[briantrumpet]

Can we drop the 2026 demand on Farage's head?

This is impressive - I asked Gemini to plot coal usage against population over the same time scale. Not surprisingly they match each other fairly well, with an acceleration in usage from the industrial revolution.

 

[First Aspect]

Gosh.

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It needs to go in the sh1t graphs thread. If it is "demand" then there should be no spikes during strikes.

 

[briantrumpet]

It needs to go in the sh1t graphs thread. If it is "demand" then there should be no spikes during strikes.

Guess they mean 'consumption' or 'usage'. So, a fair point.

 

[icowden]

They have got awkward neighbours though.

It does make perfect sense though. Americans are constantly being told (by their own education system and government) to be afraid of each other.