| > An interesting and convenient occurrence turned out that MP's got their London properties effectively for free I'm not from the UK and lack context to understand how this happened, but it's usually the case that the people who make the rules ensure that they're the winners. Personally, I favor free markets so nobody has an unfair advantage over another. > An outcome of this is that there's a lot of jobs that simply don't exist in any significant numbers outside of Central London and so unless you're happy to travel for many hours in and out of work each day to live somewhere cheaper, you're going to pay a huge premium for it. I understand that the best jobs are usually going to be in the middle of a city, and workers either have to decide between expensive housing and a short commute, or less expensive housing and a long commute. But what can you really do to solve this? Pointing out something unpleasant is one thing, but do you have a suggestion as to how to address this? Say that in one neighborhood in London close to the best jobs and finest restaurants and parks, there's living space for 50,000 people, but 500,000 people want to live there. How do you decide who gets to live there, if not increasing prices? |