to squat or not to squat
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- paraselene0
wow, nairn. loads of things to address:
1. the properties in question almost NEVER belong to an individual. they are council properties or commercial properties that have been caught in some sort of legal limbo and aren't being used for anything else. so i don't reckon it's your's or anyone else's.
2. and let's leave the weird xenophobia out of the equation. most squatters i know happen to be english. just because you perceive it to be a dirty thing that dirty people do doesn't make it ether a) so or b) just for swarthy mediterranean types. squatting is the establishment of a symbiotic relationship with the property market. it exists for a reason, and squatters' rights exist for a reason. it's an incentive for large corporations not to allow their properties to go derelict, thereby endangering people and depreciating the value of YOUR neighbourhood.
3. the uk does have particularly lenient squatters' rights laws, but spain isn't far behind. i've spent time around loads of squatting communities in both spain and the u.s. and find squatting to be only slightly less prevalent in those countries.