Best relocation areas in the UK?
Dec 11th 2018, 8:46 pm
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I sit corrected, thank you for that. I had honestly expected it to be an awful lot more.
Dec 11th 2018, 9:54 pm
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My wife and I spent some time today booking our train tickets from the NE (Darlington) to Gatwick Airport in February. Amazing prices if you book up 12 weeks ahead and are flexible on the time of travel. We bought the tickets in segments to minimise costs. First Class Darlington to Kings Cross London has cost us £37.30 each leaving at 10:28.
Dec 12th 2018, 12:31 am
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What a bargain, especially considering that first class includes food and beverages. Or it did on my last trip down to Kings Cross anyway.
Dec 12th 2018, 8:58 am
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My wife and I spent some time today booking our train tickets from the NE (Darlington) to Gatwick Airport in February. Amazing prices if you book up 12 weeks ahead and are flexible on the time of travel. We bought the tickets in segments to minimise costs. First Class Darlington to Kings Cross London has cost us £37.30 each leaving at 10:28.
My original thought that it would be a lot more expensive was based on effectively a 'walk in', or at best booked the day prior to travelling.
Dec 12th 2018, 9:09 am
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We do have senior railcards, having bought 3 year cards. Walk in on the day prices can be very high. I just looked up that Glasgow to London return leaving today coming back tomorrow and it is £89
Dec 12th 2018, 5:45 pm
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That is not bad considering the high fuel tax levied on gas in the UK. Of course here in the States that amount of fuel price would cause riots in the Streets. I'm thinking gas must be about $5.50 a gallon adjusted for liters $1.40. Current price per gallon in the states in my region of the country is $1.99 per gallon. That is the reason why so many people prefer to drive trucks and suv's instead of cars.
Dec 12th 2018, 7:06 pm
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My wife and I spent some time today booking our train tickets from the NE (Darlington) to Gatwick Airport in February. Amazing prices if you book up 12 weeks ahead and are flexible on the time of travel. We bought the tickets in segments to minimise costs. First Class Darlington to Kings Cross London has cost us £37.30 each leaving at 10:28.
America is so massive and every state and city has the right to spend local funds on the priorities it deems necessary. And Mass Transit by design tend to work better in larger cities that have big populations and a sizable tax base which affords well laid out transit systems. That pretty much leaves out 80% of America because much of the country are rural towns and small cities. And the federal government HATES to spend money on infrastructure projects because obviously that would make everyone depended upon government and less self reliant lol.
Those are only some of the reasons why America is a car ownership country. People love their cars here. The feeling of driving a Dodge Ram Truck truly is pure joy!
Dec 12th 2018, 7:17 pm
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That is not bad considering the high fuel tax levied on gas in the UK. Of course here in the States that amount of fuel price would cause riots in the Streets. I'm thinking gas must be about $5.50 a gallon adjusted for liters $1.40. Current price per gallon in the states in my region of the country is $1.99 per gallon. That is the reason why so many people prefer to drive trucks and suv's instead of cars.
I understand why gas has to be so cheap in the USA, I really do, we lived there for 29 years and for most of that we were working in Louisiana where we both had a commute of 25 miles each way and we used to drive big trucks and big SUVs.
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Houston is a huge city has no mass transit system, even in the relatively small town of The Woodlands (pop 120,000) where we lived there was no bus or train service whatsoever.
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Dec 12th 2018, 8:27 pm
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I have just had our car in for its annual service and we have done 5,500 miles in the past 12 months which for our car equates to $550 in gas (we own one car, a Prius hybrid). We are retired so no work commute and all the shops etc are within a mile radius. We were also retired for the 6 years before we moved back to England from north of Houston and we also had just one car, a Prius Hybrid. Our annual spend on gas in Texas (The Woodlands to be precise) was about the same as it is here because where we lived was so big compared to here and we had to drive everywhere we went in Texas, but where we live now most of our miles are on leisure trips.
I understand why gas has to be so cheap in the USA, I really do, we lived there for 29 years and for most of that we were working in Louisiana where we both had a commute of 25 miles each way and we used to drive big trucks and big SUVs.
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Houston is a huge city has no mass transit system, even in the relatively small town of The Woodlands (pop 120,000) where we lived there was no bus or train service whatsoever.
Driving a car in the States is baked into the way things are done in America. Most States either can't afford to pay for a well laid out Mass Transit like NYC or many tax payers in those states will not willingly support seeing their taxes go up to pay for a bigger better transit system. I remember when Obama gave federal money to several states in order to pay for Mass Transit linking up cities like Orlando to Tampa, building tunnels linking New Jersey to Manhattan and the state government contribution was going to be minimum, and still those states refused to accept the money. The libertarian mentality is sometimes far too strong in the States.
Dec 13th 2018, 10:28 pm
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Just want to say the rail link talks between Orlando and Tampa are back on !!! Yippee just as we plan to move back to the UK ..
Dec 14th 2018, 1:49 am
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Obama provided slightly over one billion dollars to build that rail link but when Florida's governor refuse to accept the infrastructure funds, that decision automatically triggered a clause in the agreement which made that money available to other states that were interested in accepting money to build projects in order to stimulate job growth in those communities.
Basically it was a political decision that some republican leaders didn't want to help build economic growth(connected to the stimulus money) in their states for fear Obama would get credit for the accomplishment. Because of politics the main mode of travel within central Florida is still personal vehicle. One of the biggest tourism cities in the world and we still don't have lite rail connecting the major cities. Insane in the membrane!
Dec 14th 2018, 9:41 am
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Private investors for the rail see the latest news - link below
https://www.tampabay.com/business/br.../?template=amp
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Dec 15th 2018, 9:02 am
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Private investors for the rail see the latest news - link below
https://www.tampabay.com/business/br.../?template=amp
https://www.tampabay.com/business/br.../?template=amp
Dec 15th 2018, 9:29 am
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I sent this picture to my friends Titled "Charming Hammy Down".
Dec 16th 2018, 2:37 am
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My friends have seen a few homes in Berkshire. Any opinions on the Berkshire area and particularly Ascot?