Subject: [smof-politics] Thought for solving two housing crises, but is the cost too high?
From: "Noah Scott" (bigcheese@stellvia.lib)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/11 13:14
To: undisclosed-recipients
It's been brought to my attention that there's been a housing crisis in Ireland for the last four years. Specifically, they've got on the order of 300,000 excess houses that the Irish government doesn't know what to do with. (It seems it was cheaper to build a house than to pay taxes in Ireland for years.)
And we've all heard the stories about how difficult it is to find a house in Port Lowell or Mos Eisley.
I'm sure you know where I'm going with this... but should we?
No doubt the Irish government would love to sell some of their surplus neighborhoods, and the folks at the Island, Hephaestus, and Grover's Corners have experience lifting acres of land into space. And while I suspect that Ireland would allow some Unreal Estate launches just because the UK doesn't like Unreal Estate, the Irish are possessive of their homes...
Also, there's never been any wholesale, organized attempts at launching Unreal Estate. The UN might get upset.
(There's also a technical issue - while there have been Unreal Estate launches in the past, I'm not aware of anyone landing one afterward. But technical issues can be solved.)
Before I go public with thinking about buying empty neighborhoods in Belfast, moving them to Port Lowell, and selling them to Fen families who are crammed into one-bedroom apartments, what political ramifications am I missing?
--
Noah Scott, of station Stellvia
(OOC: The http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/break ... 08905.html is real - apparently, their housing problems make the subprime mortgage bubble look like a minor hiccup. They have http://irishfireside.com/2010/03/08/are ... sh-travel/ too.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
From: "Noah Scott" (bigcheese@stellvia.lib)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 2014/2/11 13:14
To: undisclosed-recipients
It's been brought to my attention that there's been a housing crisis in Ireland for the last four years. Specifically, they've got on the order of 300,000 excess houses that the Irish government doesn't know what to do with. (It seems it was cheaper to build a house than to pay taxes in Ireland for years.)
And we've all heard the stories about how difficult it is to find a house in Port Lowell or Mos Eisley.
I'm sure you know where I'm going with this... but should we?
No doubt the Irish government would love to sell some of their surplus neighborhoods, and the folks at the Island, Hephaestus, and Grover's Corners have experience lifting acres of land into space. And while I suspect that Ireland would allow some Unreal Estate launches just because the UK doesn't like Unreal Estate, the Irish are possessive of their homes...
Also, there's never been any wholesale, organized attempts at launching Unreal Estate. The UN might get upset.
(There's also a technical issue - while there have been Unreal Estate launches in the past, I'm not aware of anyone landing one afterward. But technical issues can be solved.)
Before I go public with thinking about buying empty neighborhoods in Belfast, moving them to Port Lowell, and selling them to Fen families who are crammed into one-bedroom apartments, what political ramifications am I missing?
--
Noah Scott, of station Stellvia
(OOC: The http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/break ... 08905.html is real - apparently, their housing problems make the subprime mortgage bubble look like a minor hiccup. They have http://irishfireside.com/2010/03/08/are ... sh-travel/ too.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012