Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Queuing for Houses

Apparently students in Oxford are queuing outside estate agents in order to get highly sought after properties in Jericho. I can't work out why they're suddenly all queuing now, although I guess most hadn't given next year much thought before Christmas.

2 comments:

  1. It's because the estate agent in Jericho has only just released the list of available accommodation. They do this every year, in a pretty transparent publicity stunt.

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  2. Ah, ok.

    I suppose that, provided everyone knows this, first come first served is a reasonably just allocation procedure. Although maybe it'd be more efficient to have a lottery for everyone that applies this week or something...

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