Meow

Exactly!



(Seriously, people must really think they can live on fresh air once they get old. Long term savings isn't just about pensions either. )

Patsy Stoned

Old people don't need a lot to eat darling

Meow

Some won't get a choice!

And Patsy, those bottles of fizzy will still cost money x

adriancharles

May i work for you? im sure you could sort me out with a job being a millionaire. all i ask is £20,000 a year. I could be your bodyguard, or the man that carries your shopping bags, holds doors open for you. basically a slave.

Millhouse

Too right. As I told Mini whose Emerging Chinese Equities fund is down 25% on the year... It's a long term bet.

Thankfully, he is none too bright so we won't need much money for university fees.

Meow

Silver linings and all that...

Patsy Stoned

Darling...I'm not a millionaire, my sister's husband is.
I already have a "man what does" but thank you very much for offering

adriancharles

Why you being so harsh on me, i was just commenting on how lucky the guy is to be earning big bucks, we people over here live in council houses, and earn min wage.

OK my spelling may be bad, and not up to your standards, but please show respect to others. calling me stupid, thick etc is not nice : (

Patsy Stoned

Which is why I am stockpiling darling

Bahtatboy

+1

Meow

I'm pretty sure you must be a troll, but the OP isn't lucky. He has worked hard and made an effort to secure a decent job.

You won't get far in life if you can't write properly. No wonder degrees aren't worth what they once worth if graduates are unable to use proper English.

You'll get farther in life if you take the time to write good English, communicate properly (any prospective employers reading this forum won't take your posts seriously) and make an effort to sort yourself out, rather than feeling sorry for yourself and thinking the world owes you a living.

adriancharles

Your very judgemental, and just to let you know, this is just a forum, English skills are not looked at, am not applying for a job on here. Im just chatting, English skills dont get you everywhere, why are my friends with English degrees working in Sainsburys/call centres when they can spell, its not all about English baby, its about Science.

Patsy Stoned

I just corrected that for you darling

auzdafluff

Look. People don't mean to be harsh, but you're going to have to wake up to reality. If you're serious about coming over here, you're going to need experience. The only people who can really rock up here with no experience are teachers.

You said in the other thread you have a degree, but you don't have a job yet? Now, this might sound nasty, but going on your spelling and grammar, I'm going to assume it was what's known as a Mickey Mouse degree? It's either that – and you didn't do very well in it (scraped a third maybe), or you're just being lazy when you're on a forum.

Either way, you're not going to give the right impression to potential employers (especially as you've used your real name).

On the point of you only being on minimum wage, it is a lot more expensive to live out here. A lot.

I guarantee you that what you're paying to maintain the quality of life you have now is probably about 40-50 per cent of what it actually costs due to all the government subsidies.

You then need to add another 50 per cent on to that value to get a rough idea of how much it costs to live out here.

In other words, people who earn the equivalent of £20,000 a year (£16,135 after tax), are certainly not living UK council house/minimum wage-type lifestyles.

That's about AED7,670 a month. To give you an idea, I live in flat you'd pay around £450 a month for in the UK outside of London. Here, I pay around AED6,335 a month (£1,110 a month). That's a two bed flat in an okay area.

In other words, even your aspiration of £20,000 a year is nowhere near enough to live out here. Even a single westerner would struggle on that.

I'm single, live on my own (share with one other person). I'm on a decent wage a year. My wage might sound like a lot to a UK person, but in reality, it's nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Millhouse

Sadly, there is precious little scientific research done in this region. Come up with a cure for diabetes and you'll mint money here.

On the income side of things, you mustn't overlook the costs. Schooling here for 2 kids will set you back somewhere between 10-20k GBP a year, a 2 bed flat in an OK part of town will cost you 16k GBP. It all adds up buddy. A car / taxis will probably cost you 300 quid a month.

Suddenly 10k and a cheap house doesn't seem so bad...

Anyway, I wish you all the best. I know the UK is very tough at the moment.