Comment on Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England.
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day agoold and “full of character” (read: uneven floors, crumbling paper-thin walls) due to lack of regulation.
compare that with Germany’s rule where a landlord has to replace the floors/kitchen/damn roof every 6/7 years, under the pretext of forced maintenance which they then use to jack up the rent based on the mandatory improvements.
I genuinely don’t know which is better
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 day ago
You might have mis-read my comment, what are their prices like, relative to ours?
Basically a bit like our old terrace houses that are full of damp and way too small for modern life.
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day ago
oh sorry – well cheaper than german houses that’s for sure.
Along the Rhine valley, they have a double whammy of Swiss being unable to buy houses in Switzerland, so they go buy them in Germany as buy-to-let, pricing out the Germans who can’t compete with Swiss salaries, and so the Germans go buy French houses which drives up their prices for the French.
I’m not answering your question at all am I lmao
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Have you considered a career in politics?
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day ago
“That would be an
ecumenicalcivicocratic matter”