English Coursework January 2015

 

Are we being kicked out of London? My point is how can the ordinary people who get the average income of £26,500 yearly be able to afford one of the new “modernist” style apartments which range from around £200,000 for A two bedroom apartment to around £1,000,000!

 

This is a problem because these new towers of glass and a bit of shabby architecture will be springing up everywhere as part of the governments’ skyline project.  Vauxhall, Hackney, Stratford and Brixton will all be facing renovations. This is most likely where some of your family or friends may reside now because the rest of London for example parts of Pimlico and Kensington are simply too expensive. These areas will be rebuilt to make way for the richer 0.01%.

 

I may sound like a person whose hung around Russell Brand too much, as my views may come across as quite left-wing. But this is simply because it is obvious from the prices, the honest workers and their families will not be able to stay in London. But is it worth it?

 

£200,000 will probably get you a small two bedroom flat with just enough space to move about in, and within the ideal world where you are a smart businessman, single, with a lot of time and freedom on his hands this may be perfect for you. However most of us aren’t. So you may have 2 children who you want to provide room to grow in and you’ve got a fairly good paying job. The upshot is, some of these will be pretty small so it may be the case of simply moving out to the suburbs of London.

 

Well now to balance things up lets go over the upsides. You won’t have to get up so early in the morning to be stuffed into a mobile box of everything unpleasant (train) or a smaller one that sort moves with lots of other ones (car) to get to work on time. Furthermore there will probably be a Tesco just round the corner for you to grab that one thing you know you need/want. Another upside is that you will have more schools to leave your kids and not have to worry about trying to find meticulous ways of delivering them a mile away from where you live and some how also make it to the workplace somewhere far, far away.

 

To be brutally honest you’re really just paying for the convenience. However it is a HUGE convenience, it’s like the remote control for your TV imagine if you didn’t have this luxury and blessing, think about it. Now that I hope you have done this I am sure you understand what I’m getting at. It may seem quite daunting but you will get used to it in the end.


So, I am quite biased in my argument and perhaps may have exaggerated on some points however, what isn’t an exaggeration is that these flats will be overall un-affordable and impractical convenience. But quite a large convenience at that. And it doesn’t look as if the plan will change any time soon as no one in the cabinet has even talked of remembering that there’s almost 10 million people in London, a majority of which cannot afford these new developments. Well perhaps someone might think of us however don’t count on it and so my advice to you is… Find somewhere else, easier said than done but it may be necessary soon.