House prices in the UK continue to soar with the latest figures from Halifax showing a year-on-year growth of 1.5 percent for October.
This puts the average house price at £227,869 – an imposing and near impossible figure for many first time buyers.
As a result, many Brits say they would be willing to take a trip to Mars just to get on the housing ladder.
A study commissioned in conjunction with the second series of MARS, on National Geographic, beginning on Sunday November 11, found that one in six Brits would move to Mars TOMORROW as a property there seems more affordable and even realistic.
A fifth of Brits, of a study of 2,000 people, would want to move to Mars in general and 13 percent believe it would offer a better quality of life.
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Some 15 percent said they would want to move to Mars to escape human danger such as nuclear war,
Stephen Petranek, author of the book How We’ll Live on Mars, which the National Geographic series MARS is based on, says: “It’s exciting to think that humans will be living on Mars far sooner than most people think.
“For this forward-thinking project, we’ve predicted what different homes on Mars might actually look like, with options to suit a range of budgets.
“There are plenty of elements to consider, from ensuring an adequate shield to the harsh radiation Mars endures because its atmosphere is so thin, to the need for homely touches reminiscent of Earth”
“Ultimately, living on Mars must seem more appealing and psychologically inviting than living on Earth or not enough people will want to make a new life there.
“As we make these predictions now, we can only wonder what designs we will actually adopt as hundreds of thousands of people eventually move to the Red Planet.”
Each day, the prospect of living on Mars gains traction, with the likes of China, NASA and private space firms such as SpaceX striving to get there.
NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin said that a Mars colonisation is achievable by 2040, while tech billionaire Elon Musk is more ambitious and says that he hopes to get people to the Red Planet by the 2030s.
Last year, the SpaceX CEO said that can be accomplished in about 10 years, maybe sooner, maybe nine years”.