to squat or not to squat
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- Nairn0
wow, indeed.
1) 'Legal Limbo' is the opportunistic sleight of your idealised perception. You state yourself that you can't afford to live here - your only option is to live freely. Please more explicitly define your right to travel half-way across the world to an already over-saturated environment to further your capital needs... at the expense of others.
2) I was brought up in Spain, consider myself European and about half of my friends are foreign. That said, most of the squatters I have known have actually been Spanish. I know this from trawling squats, trying to buy ketamine*. In fact, a great majority of the Spanish people I have met in London have squatted - and been quite proud of the fact. I know >for a fact< that said majority made no effort to ingratiate themselves with the local society - to appreciate the value of THE neighbourhood. They did it simply because they didn't want to pay to stay in London.
3) Fair do-s. And your homeland - land of the free?
/I should state that I was being ever-so-slightly deliberately inflammatory. I really do [generally] dislike 'Spanish Gypsies', though from actual experiences with them. However, I do not actually lump all foreigners a great unwashed umbrella.
// wish I hand't really gone here - but will continue to state my case. No hard feelings, eh?
* this, in itself, should make you realise that I am not an ardent capitalist trying to drive some prejudice about 'lower orders'.