Evil President Snow’s housing ritual is far too close to homeThe starvation Games imitates life in Britain’s property market. The evil President Snow has devised a ritual where young couples queue up overnight to fight for prison cell-sized spaces on the fringes of the city,enslaving themselves in debt while the mighty elite look on and laugh.
Will part two see the walls arrive crashing down? In Hollywood we know the baddies always lose … eventually (well, only when the franchise is truly wrung out). But this is Hounslow, and where even the strongest of the rebels cannot overcome the malicious lords of the property market who decree that a 308 square foot space,called a “studio suite” (aka bedsit), should command a price of £230000. For nine times average UK pay the buyer is still more than an hour by public transport to the city centre, and although they are handily adjacent to Heathrow and the 4.30am jumbo jets roaring over their beds.
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Source: theguardian.com