This is cultural appropriation.

super_furry

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/mobile-homes-allowed-gardens-temporary-15958942

Sure why bother building houses when you can turn everyone's gaff into a halting site!

KikiLaRue

What's the problem?

It's people who have big back gardens allowing their kids to live in a mobile home out the back while they save for a deposit.

And whatever it is, it's not cultural appropriation.

super_furry

KikiLaRue wrote: »

And whatever it is, it's not cultural appropriation.

We're stealing their culture boss!

KikiLaRue

super_furry wrote: »

We're stealing their culture boss!

This measure has nothing to do with travellers. Read a bit more about it.

And if it was, could you not have just posted in the Margaret Cash thread.

Deebles McBeebles

Much like one swallow does not a summer make, one mobile home does not a halting site make.

IAMAMORON

KikiLaRue wrote: »

What's the problem?

It's people who have big back gardens allowing their kids to live in a mobile home out the back while they save for a deposit.

And whatever it is, it's not cultural appropriation.

You took the words right out of my mouth, well said.

realitykeeper

When a government inteferes with market forces, halting sites in the back garden is the sort of thing to expect. The banks over borrowed, they should have been allowed to fail.

realitykeeper

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Much like one swallow does not a summer make, one mobile home does not a halting site make.

If one mobile home is halted at a site, it is a halting site.

KikiLaRue

realitykeeper wrote: »

If one mobile home is halted at a site, it is a halting site.

Well that's just not true.

cruizer101

I'm not the biggest fan of travellers but what the hell does this have to do with them.
It's surely for parents allowing kids to live in mobile home in big garden or similar.

KikiLaRue

cruizer101 wrote: »

I'm not the biggest fan of travellers but what the hell does this have to do with them.
It's surely for parents allowing kids to live in mobile home in big garden or similar.

If it was about travellers, this thread would be five pages long already. Now that people have realised this is about middle class families, the outrage has immediately fizzled.

super_furry

We're stealing their way of life, it's shocking Joe! What's next? M&S selling sulky carts and slash-hooks?

Deebles McBeebles

KikiLaRue wrote: »

If it was about travellers, this thread would be five pages long already. Now that people have realised this is about middle class families, the outrage has immediately fizzled.

What outrage? Hard to be outraged at an essentially positive story. Even the OP was taking the p*ss.

jimgoose

This was quite commonly done in the 70s and 80s in rural areas. Young couples would use a mobile home on the parents' ground while their house was being built or while they were saving to build/buy.

Yer Da sells Avon

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

What outrage? Hard to be outraged at an essentially positive story. Even the OP was taking the p*ss.

Adults being forced to live in their parents' suburban back gardens is not a positive story.

jimgoose

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Adults being forced to live in their parents' suburban back gardens is not a positive story.

It isn't quite, no, but hardly "outrage" material either. :pac:

Guy:Incognito

realitykeeper wrote: »

. The banks over borrowed, they should have been allowed to fail.

Taking everyone's savings and anything on deposit too , yeah?

realitykeeper

KikiLaRue wrote: »

Well that's just not true.

I understand people want to put mobile homes/ cabins of various description in their back gardens due to the housng crisis. My point is these problems are of our own making as a society. We had the madness of the naughties and when the inevitable happened, instead of doing our penance, we took the soft option and bailed out the banks with borrowed money. The next round of inevitability will be fun to watch.

Deebles McBeebles

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Adults being forced to live in their parents' suburban back gardens is not a positive story.

Its not exactly the cure for cancer but I'd argue its much better than adding these people to the homeless numbers or indeed adding these people to an already competitive private rental market.

BeerWolf

My mother converted stables no longer used into a granny flat, which she rents out.

Mobile homes are just ugly...

realitykeeper

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Taking everyone's savings and anything on deposit too , yeah?

I had a lot of savings that would have been wiped out. The answer to that would have been to redirect mortgage repayments from those with mortgages to savers. If they did not pay in full on time as originally agreed, kick them out immediately and demand continued payments for the balance with no possibility of bankruptcy. Those who lost a lot in savingscould be given first refusal of a full or part share in these newly vacant properties or the properties could be flogged on the open market to reimburse them. That way, prices would not have reinflated so quickly and buyers could afford to buy instead of having to stay with their mammies while the guy next door who hasn`t paid a cent on his mortgage in ten years heads off to Lanzarotte.

Your Face

Trollish thread title. This isn't cultural appropriation - if such a thing actually exists.

This is a sign of something far worse, a sign that working people cant get homes.

Yer Da sells Avon

I'll tell you what is cultural appropriation. Being a man. Because you have a Jap's eye.