Quote Originally Posted by Simon Barden View Post
Nobody building houses, or are their restrictions placed on the numbers built? Limitations on where you can build? Or is it just too many people converging on the same area at the same time?

We've got a large housing 'shortage' in the UK. Plenty of houses, lots empty, but most are in the north and everyone wants to move south and live around London. Commuting in from up to 100 miles/160km is fairly common. So they are slowly building more houses down south - but it's already relatively crowded and with ageing infrastructure and narrow roads - so things just get even more clogged-up. Around 20,000 new houses being build within a few miles radius of where I live over the next couple of years, and that's a lot of extra traffic. At some point I'm going to have to move somewhere quieter because it's just becoming unbearable. There's no government plans or incentives for people to develop businesses in the northern parts of the country. So people move south, which reduces the economy up north, which then results in worse services, shops that have to shut, less jobs etc. and it becomes a vicious circle as people then want to move out.

I think it's probably a case of the Real Estate agents getting a bit greedy (i.e. profits), and wanting sell to the big spenders, and maybe something to do with the Darwin City Council, Darwin's hospital needs funding, so what do the Darwin City Council do?, they spend money on a great big olympic-sized swimming pool instead.