Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "NowThis Impact" channel.

My sister was the fittest healthiest person you can imagine, an MMA instructor. Carrying a baby to term put her in a wheelchair and she took 2 years to recover. She wanted a 2nd but simply could not physically do it. Having babies is DANGEROUS - even in 2024. Thankfully she was in the UK so the vast amount of medical treatment she received cost $0.00
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@mikewhocheeseharry5292 As is very often the way - the USA gave them the weapons and the training of 40 years ago they were fighting the Russians... The uSA makes a habit of supporting the enemies of its enemies only to be genuinely surprised when that all goes badly wrong after the enemy is defeated and the guns get turned on the USA...
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When they turn 18 get their passports and plane tickets to Europe or Australia - return ticket in one year. They can then make an informed decision at 19 where they want to live. I know several people who have done this with their kids in the UK.
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EXACTLY - you dont take over an entire country with Toyota pickups in 10 days unless the general population is OK with you doing so...
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I dont have children. But I live in Bulgaria where it is expected that you contribute to the looking after of children as here society looks after children not just the parents. They make my life worth living...
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@phoenix_kiana If you cant work it out - this conversation is not for you.
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@Julianna.Domina - I never understood that saying until I came to Bulgaria. YES IT DOES. Children are society's responsibility.
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@cheshireket3132 - Yeah but announcing a target for new homes to be built ALSO does not work, as we found out in the UK. Cos developers and the local community NIMBY's will individually pick off every development and only allow a small number of expensive houses to be built so as to keep property prices up / minimise new families / traffic as they did in the UK. You have to change the law to make the building os small affordable homes a LEGAL requirement. Once you have built 3 small homes you can build 1 big home. NO big houses until you have built 3 small ones. You cant even start construction on large single-family houses until you have completed the 3X number of small houses and sold them to first-time buyers. Trust me - the UK has been trying to solve this problems for 20 years and NOTHING has worked.
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@justageekygamer I absolutely do. But its usually cheaper than keeping them at home...!!! They are likely to go to a walkable 15-minute city where they get a job and an apartment and use public transport. If they stay at home in an Am3ric4n car dependent suburb they are going to need a car [you are probably paying for that] insurance [you], the job wont pay a wage that is really livable what the cost of living so you are likely to have to subsidise it, etc etc. I live a very happy life next to a beach in Burgas Bulgaria [look it up] on less than my American friend pay for health insurance in the US...
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AS PART OF MY JOB I have to watch politically active young people like this on line - it the BEST part of my job - the bit that gives me HOPE for the future of humanity
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MESSAGE FROM BRITAIN the $25k help - yeah they did that here and it made things WAY worse...!!! Suddenly thousands of people have the deposit but there are NO MORE HOUSES so the price of a starter home went up WAY WAY more than the $25k. The way to solve the problem - make it the law homebuilders have to build 3 loc cost 900 sqft starter homes for every 2,500+ Sq ft home they build.
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@cheshireket3132 My sister got planning for 6 small apartments in one block to look like one large Georgian house on some land she owned, cos the kids in the village need houses. She sold it. The developer immediately put in for change of planning and built a 3 story 6 bedrooms £1.2 million single-family house on it. THEY DONT WANT TO BUILD SMALL HOMES cos its way more profitable to build large ones.
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@cheshireket3132 Yeah it sold before it was finished. The average house in my sister's North Yorkshire village is not about £750k - that $988k. In 1992 she paid $112k for a large 3-bedroomed house with stables, paddock and 5 acres of land. And YES American Private Equity is buying up houses in the village now - Stockbridge Capital has bought about 10 houses and converted them into luxury AirBnB's. We have written to the UK Housing Minister about it. The houses dont even go on the market - the real-estate agent just calls the PE company and they buy it. A Canadian PE company has bought out several of the farms in the village.
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@ThePencilPusher - NO a portion of the population are fleeing. The portion that helped the USA over the last 20 years.
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