Why aren't we building home out at see?

[SleepingStandingUp]

There's a population crisis and a lack of affordable homes and space to build etc so how come more countries don't build out from their coasts, or actually out at see. Watching the world spin and virtually a solid half is just sea! Why aren't more countries claiming territory and building their own extensions?

OP are you bored ?

Has no one mentioned - it's SEA not SEE.

Looks like @ChickenStripper just got there before me

[quote HelloFrostyMorning]@SleepingStandingUp 'Virtually a solid HALF is see (sea!)'

Try 70%! Over two thirds actually. Not half![/quote]
Itbe earth had its back to me, I wasn't checking how much was round the side and discounting anything with large land in

I do love the pedants who completely ignore my ridiculous notion to correct a spelling error 😂😂

Hermes is already shit enough.

@LookItsMeAgain

Has no one mentioned - it's SEA not SEE.

Quite. I was actually wondering if they think that's how you spell it.

[quote AutomaticMoon]**@SleepingStandingUp ‘Not really, I just stared at the spinning earth and the vast oceans a d pondered out loud with my fingers’

So you’re out in space, watching the earth spin?

😃[/quote]
Go Jetters.

@alorslanon

Mate…

Because Poseidon would wreak revenge!

@DrSbaitso

Hermes is already shit enough.

But is this why Amazon keeps trying with the drone delivery stuff becuause we'll all be wfh or commuting from off shore platforms?

Quite.
I was actually wondering if they think that's how you spell it
Yep, that's it, a typo on see/sea is obviously a sign I'm very thick and should in fact relinquish control of the keyboard.

@Hoppinggreen

I’m off to post it on the latest thread from someone starting a new job a week before giving birth.

Link! Please

@Maireas

Because Poseidon would wreak revenge!

Most valid point of the tbrrad

Thread.
What is a tbrrad????

@Maireas

Because Poseidon would wreak revenge!

Ooh, who do you think would win (or come off best) in a 3-way fight between the Kraken, Poseidon and Godzilla?

Ok OP, do you not think that building homes at see might nudge them out of the "affordable" bracket?

@SleepingStandingUp there are huge practical considerations all of which add vastly to cost, ocean depth, corrosion, transport links, infrastructure, weather, ecology etc. Where this has been done is in estuaries and shallow coastal zones, but again these are some of the most important ecological sites which need protection not destruction.

There is land its just everyone wants to cram into the same bit of it

@SleepingStandingUp

Thread. What is a tbrrad????

The noise Poseidon makes when people start to build Barrett Homes in the Indian Ocean.

@SleepingStandingUp

Quite. I was actually wondering if they think that's how you spell it Yep, that's it, a typo on see/sea is obviously a sign I'm very thick and should in fact relinquish control of the keyboard.

Just bash it with your head. I find that works.

It's a myth that UK is built over. It is about 4% if I recall. The problem is that building land with planning permission is scarce and held back to increase cost. If only they would say "build nice houses anywhere!"

@ParsleySageRosemary - very good question. I think possibly the Loch Ness monster. Don't start to build on her territory!

And its not really a solid half, is it?
As its by definition liquid

What is a tbrrad????

The noise Poseidon makes when people start to build Barrett Homes in the Indian Ocean.

😂😂😂😂😂😂🌊👺

@Thelittleweasel

It's a myth that UK is built over. It is about 4% if I recall. The problem is that building land with planning permission is scarce and held back to increase cost. If only they would say "build nice houses anywhere!"

When people say this, they completely overlook the fact that huge parts of the country are in no way suitable to be built on. We're already discovering this to our cost. Near me there just granted planning permission for 140 houses to be built on land which is reclaimed marsh and sits about 2m above sea level on a south west facing coast. Utter lunacy.

What about
Flood plains
Uplands
Forest
Bogs
Moors
SSIs
National Parks
Valuable habitats for the animals and plants we share these islands with?

We can't just go building on everything and expecting this to be fine!