I'm skeptical, it may not be as dire as it was, but I was there about three years ago and it still looked pretty run-down. Really there is no good reason for businesses to locate there, apart from brib^H^H^H^Hgrants to encourage them.
(and many times not a lot is still not a lot ...)
Is that an actual name of a part of town? Sounds more like an obscure expletive.
Interesting. Not really Liverpool proper though. Is it widespread? Presumably affordability is not the issue, anyone who can afford a house at all should easily be able to afford more than £34k, so that suggests an increase in demand. Does Liverpool have substantial new employers? It used to be that the council and the universities were the biggest employers, and I doubt that either of them has expanded dramatically ...
Hmm, I just had a look at rightmove for properties near where I used to live - there's a three-bedroom terraced house off Aigburth Road with a "yard" rather than a garden going for £92500, which certainly suggests that it's come up in the world! OTOH a similar-looking house in Toxteth (probably about 3 miles away) is only £25k, so some things don't change.
What would make it Liverpool 'proper' then?
Yes.
He HE!!
Like all cities, there are good and bad bits! ON the Fylde Coast, within
3 miles of one another, two houses almost exactly similar, 2 up 2 down, £120k and £40k!!Arent you being a broad sweeping in your comments about Liverpool though? Unemployment has dropped, there are more smaller business, tourism is now a major employer etc., In the Aintree area, which isnt within the City Boundary but certainly well within the city conurbation, the development of the Various Hospital Trusts on the Fazakerly site has helped as has the building of an estate of decent 3 bed detached houses. Off Scotland Road the old bombed out streets now have new property. Liverpool isnt all 'Aigburth Road' you know!!
*Tourism*? What's there to see? Surely all the Beatles fans have grown up and come to their senses, and nobody's queueing up to visit Cilla's birthplace, so I suppose they must all be flocking to see where they used to film Brookside.
There's nowt as curious as plebs.
In message , Ronald Raygun writes
It looks as though my best investment is turning out to be nailing up all those blue plaques I made in the shed years ago.....
(as an aside, I was in Matthew Street about 10 days ago. Full of bloody Brazilians!!!!!!!!!!!!!............)
My sister has referred me to this,
A bit like 'bow bells' he he, well I reckon Aintree passes your test.
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Last Friday the FT published an article stating that A demographic time-bomb of falling populations is threatening to make property investments in most northern cities less attractive than London.
It also states Census figures from 1981 to 2001 showed Liverpool was the worst affected city, losing 15.1 per cent, or 78,000, of its original 517,000 population.
The full article is at
Bruce
Thanks Bruce - interesting stuff.
Daytona
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