you can't tell people what to do with their own homes
my dad is 68 and lives by himself in a 5 bed house. fine, sometimes he rattles. but he regularly has me, both brothers, wives, and all kids round. at which point the house bursts at the seams. my older brother and kids live in essex. so if they couldn't stay over, they'd hardly see him. when my younger brother sprogs up, it'll be even more full.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 11:45, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

that's true as well, but a more minor point to the one I'm trying to make
which is the idea that encouraging older people to "downsize" is going to make the tiniest shit of difference anyway.

They'd have been much better employed spending the money they undoubtedlty invested in that horseshit report on building a couple of big houses and then giving them away, thus at least doing something that would have some effect.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 11:55, Reply)