DrNomis_44's Gold Standard STA-1M Build.

[Simon Barden]

Nasty situation indeed, and so hard to get out of. Here's hoping that your move proceeds with the minimum of fuss, and that you have no hassles finishing off the Hot Rod Strat.

[DrNomis_44]

Nasty situation indeed, and so hard to get out of. Here's hoping that your move proceeds with the minimum of fuss, and that you have no hassles finishing off the Hot Rod Strat.

Cheers mate, it took me two years and six months of waiting to get into the flat I'm living in, last time I checked the waiting time was something like four years, the Housing situation in Darwin has gotten really ridiculous, there's lots of itinerants living on the streets, and at one stage to buy your own house in Darwin, it costed 400,000.

[Simon Barden]

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.

[DrNomis_44]

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.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:

Just so you guys know, I'm shelving my Gold Strat project for the time-being so that i can concentrate on other things, and also so I can take my mind off it for a break, don't worry, I'm not abandoning this project completely, just taking some time-out from it.

[andrewdosborne]

Hey Doc good idea, it will give you some space and time to re-group on this one. I have numerous 'parked' projects that I've just had to walk away from for a bit, for various reasons, waiting for the flash of inspiration to pick them up again

[wazkelly]

Hey Doc, totally agree with Ponch and we will all be patiently waiting to see you back in action with it at some stage down the track.

[DrNomis_44]

Cheers Waz and Ponch, when I do get back into working on this project I will make sure I post regular updates for you, cause I know you guys like reading them.


See, I think I'm learning how to control my inner OCD-ness about the projects I work on...hahaha.

[wazkelly]

Onward and upwards.

Cheers mate and don't forget to make sure you enjoy what you are doing. It takes less effort that way.

[Simon Barden]

Don't forget that consigning displeasing bodies to a fiery pit can be almost as much fun. Mwahahahahaha!