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07-Nov-2019 09:34:43
FiFi LaFeles
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Maybe because it is a University town so demand for accommodation is high.
Wages are lower but so is the cost of living; we don't pay for healthcare for instance and private schooling fees are a lot cheaper. Swings and roundabouts. I think it’s more because the University is here and owns pretty much the entire city.
As for the cost of living being lower - I strongly have to disagree with that. Everything , and I mean everything here is so much more expensive than in Australia. The food, transport, furniture, you name it. It’s almost double the price of everything in Australia.
I’m also getting paid less here for triple the work hours, and I get taxed here!! In Australia you don’t pay tax until you earn over 56k/year. Here like 20% of my pay check goes to taxes.
I can just 100% see why all my coworkers and literally anyone else I talk to ask me why I made the crazy decision to move to the UK...
Maybe because it is a University town so demand for accommodation is high.
Wages are lower but so is the cost of living; we don't pay for healthcare for instance and private schooling fees are a lot cheaper. Swings and roundabouts. I think it’s more because the University is here and owns pretty much the entire city.
As for the cost of living being lower - I strongly have to disagree with that. Everything , and I mean everything here is so much more expensive than in Australia. The food, transport, furniture, you name it. It’s almost double the price of everything in Australia.
I’m also getting paid less here for triple the work hours, and I get taxed here!! In Australia you don’t pay tax until you earn over 56k/year. Here like 20% of my pay check goes to taxes.
I can just 100% see why all my coworkers and literally anyone else I talk to ask me why I made the crazy decision to move to the UK...
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07-Nov-2019 09:55:57
Also don’t have to pay for healthcare in Australia
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07-Nov-2019 09:56:31
Ehhhh, for some reason I thought you were an American. Ooops, sorry!
Idk about the cost of living in Oz - never been there. But yeah, we do get taxed heavily here, basic rate tax is 20% on earned income after the first £12,500 earned but it was a lot worse when I was a teenager - 35% in 1976 on a much lower level of earned income ......lolol.
It seems successive Governments have viewed the workforce as their private piggy banks
Working hours have always been something of an issue too. Sources would have us believe that the average UK worker toils for 1676 hours pa (France is 1472 , Germany is 1363) but, of course, many salaried workers are expected to work overtime which is not paid and therefore not recorded in any data sources .... so that's a load of bullshit.
Idk about the cost of living in Oz - never been there. But yeah, we do get taxed heavily here, basic rate tax is 20% on earned income after the first £12,500 earned but it was a lot worse when I was a teenager - 35% in 1976 on a much lower level of earned income ......lolol.
It seems successive Governments have viewed the workforce as their private piggy banks
Working hours have always been something of an issue too. Sources would have us believe that the average UK worker toils for 1676 hours pa (France is 1472 , Germany is 1363) but, of course, many salaried workers are expected to work overtime which is not paid and therefore not recorded in any data sources .... so that's a load of bullshit.
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07-Nov-2019 14:15:07
Dong U Dead
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Smurf said :
yo dong, when was the last time a f2p'er had acces to member worlds?
i hope they'll do a weekend like that again, cause I want my forum pic back
They have that twitch promotion going on at the moment <- two weeks membership. I know but forum pic will disappear after 2 weeks again. yours is staying. I want that too lol Goodbye everyone
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Smurf said :
yo dong, when was the last time a f2p'er had acces to member worlds?
i hope they'll do a weekend like that again, cause I want my forum pic back
They have that twitch promotion going on at the moment <- two weeks membership. I know but forum pic will disappear after 2 weeks again. yours is staying. I want that too lol Goodbye everyone
Forum farewell event (click here to join)
07-Nov-2019 15:27:13
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