Thanks to reader Bean Counter for the link
'Apocalyptic' Parklands in Koeberg meltdown scare
Disaster management teams were rushed to Cape Town's Koeberg nuclear reactor this morning amid reports that a suburb near the power plant had been devastated by radiation. Rescuers confirmed that they had found a "desolate wasteland populated by dazed zombie-like people" but added that there was no need to panic as this was "an average day in Parklands".
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"It strikes your soul. It's a deep, tearing sadness than human beings can want to live in face-brick McMansions built on shifting beach sand, between a highway splattered with squashed skunks on the one side and an unstable nuclear reactor on the other."
25 February 2009
Hayibo Tears Parklands A New One
Online satire site Hayibo had this to say about Parklands, our choice for worst suburb in Cape Town:
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so predictable when deflation is for real and people live in denial...
COMING SOON TO A NEIGHBOURHOOD NEAR YOU!!!
“The property market has fallen off a cliff, so people are playing hardball now,” said Cabbabe, 28, a steel trader who moved to Hong Kong from Australia. “My friends renegotiating their rents are telling their landlords, we’ll just walk away if you don’t give us a discount.”
Rents began falling in the city in August, a month before the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. sparked off a global banking crisis. Home leases may fall as much as 15 percent to 20 percent this year, said analysts including Simon Lo at Colliers International Ltd. Hong Kong slid into its first recession since 2003 in the third quarter, leading companies to rein in costs by firing workers.
Hong Kong Tenants Play ‘Hardball,’ Pushing Rents to 2-Year Low
...and here's another gem...
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. home values fell the most in at least 18 years in February as the recession deepened and banks withheld mortgage finance, Nationwide Building Society said.
The average house price fell an annual 17.6 percent to 147,746 pounds ($211,000), the biggest drop since monthly data began in 1991, the mortgage lender said in a statement today. Home values fell 1.8 percent on the month.
see U.K. Nationwide House Prices Fell Most Since 1991 in February
I suppose with the fudged +8% inflation it may yet take a while to arrive here, but arrive it will, at some point
Parklands, check it out in 5 years. its going to be a ghetto, with radical crime, drugs, high unemployment, rent defaulters, lots of buildings with squatters and no hope anywhere to be seen.
Parklands is soon to be renamed as Darklands due to the prfileration of Nigerians, congolese, crack whores, carck addicts, crack sellers, crack wholesalers, crack manufacturers and ofcourse, your average wannabee flash Joburg-talking (schweet cousin!!) wanker of note.
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