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| Bargain Flats (Apartments)? Fancy a new 2-bedroom luxury flat (apartment) with a sea view, in a most desirable location on the south coast of England, for only $150 a week? The flats are in a very desirable area, Poole, in Dorset, on the south coast of England. Poole has some of the most expensive properties in England, outside of London. Any new-build development over 15 units MUST, by law, have an element of social housing for those on low incomes, its a form of social engineering introduced by our New Labour government. Its designed to break down rich ghetto's/poor ghetto's and create a more balanced community. I suppose the real question is, would you pay $1m to buy one of the flats if your next door neighbour was a council tenant paying $150pw rent? Pictured: The most luxurious council flats in Britain that are rented out to tenants for just £75 | Mail Online
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| Sounds like a section 8 type thing.
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| I don't know what section 8 is but our system means that a person spending $1m on a luxury flat could have a council tenant living next door.
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| $150.00 a week seems a little high for me. I am currently living in a 4 bedroom, 2 bath, single car garage and had around 2800 square feet of living space. I am only paying $600.00 a month. Now my wife makes me watch House Hunters and all that other girly crap. Last night they were in Europe somewhere, but I am not sure where. Houses and apartments or flats are tiny about a 1/4 of what I have now. The price may be right, but I will stay here in the US and have closets and lawn instead of cupboards and gardens. I told my wife last night because I would never live in one of the bread boxes across the pond that they refer to as houses or flats.
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Our housing is smaller in internal size than yours in the US but costs much much more. On top of the rent you'd have to pay council tax of something like $300 pm which goes to the local council to pay for street cleaning, bin collection, etc. Some of it goes to the County Council and helps pay for the Police, schools, etc. My daughter lives near Boulder, Colorado, and her place is massive for the small rent she pays - but there again most things are much cheaper in the US. We're paying $12 a gallon for diesel here today!
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