Still, its unbeleivably sad when you happen across evidence of the reported ‘irrational exuberance’. The rural countryside is home to building projects abandoned mid build and whole estates of new housing that stand little chance of being occupied. Dispossessed would- be gardens overgrown with weeds front houses that stare like empty eyed lepers. The padlocked temporary fencing denying access to the footprint of untarmaced roads leading nowhere. If not just because of the optimistic price tag in a seriously depressed housing market and an economically depressed populace who can’t find work, much less a mortgage, I couldn’t help but wonder who would be brave enough to be the first new occupant.