The homeownership rate in the US is 100 basis points HIGHER today than it was in 1994 and is 1,300 basis points higher than the UK.So, you're going back 30 years, where citizens didn't necessarily work more than a single job to raise a household compared to now when the average Joe struggles to have $400 for a hospital emergency or live paycheck to paycheck. Yes, people flock to the US, to live better lives as they do to the UK, but I don't recall the UK forcing the funding of drug wars and regime change in neighbouring countries that force that kind of migration. Wars is a given.
Blackrock et al may not be ruining your life, in particular, but then you're not trying to live in starter property in 2024, are you??
This is your comparison from 30 years ago to today for the 'American Dream'?
Okay, thanks.
Deserves better than it's got.You are Francis Fukuyama and I claim my £5.
If she is appointed President, there will be war WWIII by the end of her tenure.. we can come back to this in 4 years
Bill Maher had something like this on his 1 hour show on CNN on Saturday night. Probably on YouTube by now. On tonight's show he compared the ideas and deeds of the Founding Fathers (for all their faults) to those turning "Free Gaza" shouts into "down with the USA" and asked the latter "and what the fuck have YOU done?" Not made a country and written a Constitution, that's for sure. Yes, of course the country is imperfect; brilliant of folk to spot that. But when I was teaching in NYC (for 30 plus years after I moved from Manchester, taught American History) my students often told me that it took an outsider to remind them that this is the only country in the world that began life on the astonishing principle that all people ("men", it said in 1776) are created equal. And as incomplete as the journey towards true government of the people, by the people, for the people has been, Americans have still got more freedom to cherish than, let's say, the citizens of Hong Kong where yet another journalist was locked up last week.America really sucks. Where do you suggest one goes for the freedoms and lack of monetary influence on politics?
Looking forward to hearing where we should all be packing our bags for.
The problem, as always, is that warts and all, America is STILL the place most migrants from all over the world WANT to live!?!
If only they received your tutelage on the better places to make something of yourself and live a good life, maybe the border wouldn’t be quite political hot potato it is in this year’s election.
As someone who came from nothing and nowhere, with only the desire to work hard and get some education, I can only tell my ACTUAL FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE of “The American Dream” since 1982…it was real, I embraced it, and I’ve lived it!
There is no bottom...
Most of the time?Never realised she was born retarded. She's doing fantastically well in that case - comes over as brighter than trump most of the time.
The homeownership rate in the US is 100 basis points HIGHER today than it was in 1994 and is 1,300 basis points higher than the UK.
Blackstone (not BlackRock) owns less than 1% of the US housing stock — far less, in fact.
Jesus tap dancing Christ, you can’t even get your straw men correct. You are consistently wrong about EVERYTHING.
Why in the fuck would anyone listen to your point of view? You don’t have any command of the facts. Ever.
Always love being lectured on (im)morality by the Chinese.
I think I’ve lived to see everything and reached the end of the internet!