New 2013 £3m flat with no broadband (until late 2016) - Page 1
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author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 10, 2019, 10:13:21 pm
content: I found another interesting article and just searched and no mention.I find it strange how this in the news now and not at the time when he had no broadband or phone line unless the proceedings to sue is slow but for £3m who would want a flat with no broadband,no phone line? by the looks of itwith poor phone signals.https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/millionaire-travel-tycoon-sues-luxury-flat-owner-100k-over-lack-of-broadband-a4308436.htmlQuoteIn this article:https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/09/owner-3000000-flat-sues-developer-didnt-broadband-11446375/QuoteHigh end facilitiesunless they mean the facilities such as the library.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 11, 2019, 11:18:04 am
content: He could afford to take legal action, but couldn't be bothered just setting up a cellular connection connected to a regular Ethernet network?Besides, if it's anything like Australia, our cellular network speeds are many times faster and more reliable than our fixed wire infrastructure.Something smells like bullshit to me.

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 11, 2019, 11:25:14 am
content: He could just pay the telco to roll out fiber, its not that expensive, much less when you have 3 mil for a flat.

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 11, 2019, 04:51:12 pm
content: Quote from: Halcyon on December 11, 2019, 11:18:04 am£3m for a leasehold apartment he doesn't even own tells me that he must own a lot more than that and with that sort of money and time there shouldn't be a problem.Can afford lawyers to sue but didn't check physically check the apartment what infrastructure was already there before he moved in and waited this long to sue.In their marketing materials they did mention it:https://web.archive.org/web/20120614031338/http://www.theheron.co.uk/the-apartments/specificationArchive.org 14/06/2012Quotehttps://web.archive.org/web/20120708080203/http://www.theheron.co.uk/servicesDisclaimer:QuoteHe didn't make sure that the broadband infrastructure he wanted was installed before moving in and apartments can vary.

author: station240
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 11, 2019, 07:49:31 pm
content: Quote from: MrMobodies on December 11, 2019, 04:51:12 pmThe usual pre-wired for highspeed internet BS real estate claims.There could just be a blue cable hanging out of the wall, with nothing at the other end to even connect it to.But hey, it 'ready' just call the broadband provider of your choice, watch them come out and dig a hole in the front yard as the cheapscape developers sometimes don't even bury a conduit.In multi story apartment buildings, it's a huge task to wire it. Often involving running fibre to each floor, if a telco is consulted during planning/construction then there aren't delays getting broadband to residents. For £3m I'd expect the developers to do that, and pay the expenses involved.

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 12, 2019, 04:24:34 am
content: 1) It's London.2) London is a drab, alienating, vacuous dump.3) People who pay £3M for *a flat* in that place, golly, that's worse than a stretch of jailtime.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 14, 2019, 12:22:18 am
content: Quote from: eti on December 12, 2019, 04:24:34 amA trifle harsh!

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2019, 05:01:18 am
content: Quote from: vk6zgo on December 14, 2019, 12:22:18 amTruth is truth; have you been there? I used to go weekly, my opinion remains.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2019, 09:24:36 am
content: Quote from: eti on December 12, 2019, 04:24:34 amYou're not wrong.A very close family friend earns three times as much as me as an IT consultant. He works in London. Owns a £750k house with his wife who also works various jobs. He struggles to make ends meet sometimes.Spends 2 hours a day, each way, commuting to his job in the centre. Of course, no sucker can afford a flat near where they work, so they all take multiple modes of transport, which itself isn't cheap. And no one drives in London -- there's too much traffic!No kind of life in my opinion.

author: Xenoamor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2019, 12:02:41 pm
content: Quote from: tom66 on December 18, 2019, 09:24:36 amThe only way I could ever justify that is if you could retire very comfortably at 40

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2019, 01:50:59 pm
content: Quote from: eti on December 18, 2019, 05:01:18 amMany more years ago than I like to contemplate during a "working holiday".I did notice that not many people where I was living in Southampton had any great enthusiasm for London.Of course, I went & saw all the well known sights, but really, unless you were of the theatre going milieu, it did pall after a while.I remember one weekend driving up to London to buy some "Colonel Sander's Kentucky fried Chicken".( KFC to all you "Yutes")Back in the 1970's there were, to my knowledge, two such outlets in the UK, compared to 6 or more in Perth WA.The KFC was cold, & served with chips, which they didn't use in Oz at that time, & I was astounded at how quiet central London was.You pretty much could have "fired a cannon down the Strand without hitting anybody."That said, although London does seem to suffer from a "cultural cringe", comparing itself with Paris, my impression is it is every bit as attractive.Of the limited number of European capitals I've seen, though, only Rome seems to live up to the hype.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2019, 10:00:26 pm
content: London is a beautiful city to visit, and due to proximities of relatives I generally find myself that way most years. However, visit is about as far as I'd take it. Walking around, you notice the pollution, both noise and exhaust, that permeates the entire city and, in my case at least causes my throat to flare up. The people are, outside of close friends and relatives, entirely uninterested in anyone else (you can slip and fall and no one will offer a helping hand) and to an extent, quite rude, although more in the British manner of not really caring than being aggressively rude. In London, everyone is rushing and bustling past, because no one gets anywhere there without stepping on some toes. Rush hour in London is to be especially avoided in a busy Tube station.The museums, tourist traps and bridges are all well worth a look once in one's life, but besides those, there is nothing terribly exciting about London: it is just ~0.7% of the land area of the UK, where 1/6th of our population lives. A lot of the problems in London can be put down to that ratio.

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2019, 11:53:29 pm
content: London is a Mecca for the perpetually self-interested egotist. If you've ever made the fatal mistake of sacrificing a single second of this precious life watching "The Apprentice", you'll find London summed up in a nutshell.Comparing London to Paris, by the way, is so very ludicrous as to be akin to comparing American squeezy "cheese" to genuine English Stilton.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2019, 12:28:22 am
content: Quote from: eti on December 18, 2019, 11:53:29 pmYeah, American cheese is edible!Maybe I saw Paris on a couple of bad days--the weather was terrible, everything was grey, drizzly, & disgusting, just like London.Coming from a city where, even in the winter we have a lot of sunny days, & when we do have bad weather, it isn't namby-pamby drizzle, but real, red blooded hammering down rain, (or sometimes, just for a change, hail), which blows sideways & searches you out under shelter, it made me feel depressed.Objectively, they are both great cities with attractive bits --- it's just that they wear off quickly.Rome is much more my speed!

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2019, 02:13:00 am
content: Quote from: tom66 on December 18, 2019, 10:00:26 pmRead it somewhere, that the 1/6th population you mentioned, is feeding the whole country, cmiiw.