A monthly UK budget
#47
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Re: A monthly UK budget
Monarch ?
#49
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Thanks for the suggestions for job. That sound great!!!!
#52
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It certainly is a screaming bargain for the recipient, for the host country not so much methinks - Jill who works in an Amazon warehouse has to pay extra income tax so that Bill from abroad gets a cheap deal.
#53
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I pay income, Council, VAT and all taxes in the UK
I pay all the fees associated with my visa which allows me to live in the UK with my Brit husband, which by the time I gain UK citizenship 5 years after arriving will total over £7,000
I work on a volunteer basis to provide support and assistance to local people with dementia and their families
UK settlement migrants to my home country of Australia are eligible for full Medicare services immediately on arrival, and the two countries have a reciprocal health agreement
If you have a problem with me using the NHS, take it up with the UK government.
#54
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An income of around £1500 a month gives me a single old-fogey. quite a comfortable life. I do not smoke or drink. I do not have a car.
#55
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I'm a non EU migrant and while I'm very grateful for the NHS, I don't feel in the slightest bit guilty for using it.
I pay income, Council, VAT and all taxes in the UK
I pay all the fees associated with my visa which allows me to live in the UK with my Brit husband, which by the time I gain UK citizenship 5 years after arriving will total over £7,000
I work on a volunteer basis to provide support and assistance to local people with dementia and their families
UK settlement migrants to my home country of Australia are eligible for full Medicare services immediately on arrival, and the two countries have a reciprocal health agreement
If you have a problem with me using the NHS, take it up with the UK government.
I pay income, Council, VAT and all taxes in the UK
I pay all the fees associated with my visa which allows me to live in the UK with my Brit husband, which by the time I gain UK citizenship 5 years after arriving will total over £7,000
I work on a volunteer basis to provide support and assistance to local people with dementia and their families
UK settlement migrants to my home country of Australia are eligible for full Medicare services immediately on arrival, and the two countries have a reciprocal health agreement
If you have a problem with me using the NHS, take it up with the UK government.
I was merely pointing out that the "screaming bargain" means someone can rock-up tomorrow as an immigrant and get tens of thousands of pounds of NHS help all for the bargain price of £400. But of course that has to be paid-for by someone else.
Your example is different if there is a reciprocal agreement, but that will not be the case for many or likely most countries.
As you were.
#56
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I wasn't poking at your specifically so calm down dear.
I was merely pointing out that the "screaming bargain" means someone can rock-up tomorrow as an immigrant and get tens of thousands of pounds of NHS help all for the bargain price of £400. But of course that has to be paid-for by someone else.
Your example is different if there is a reciprocal agreement, but that will not be the case for many or likely most countries.
As you were.
I was merely pointing out that the "screaming bargain" means someone can rock-up tomorrow as an immigrant and get tens of thousands of pounds of NHS help all for the bargain price of £400. But of course that has to be paid-for by someone else.
Your example is different if there is a reciprocal agreement, but that will not be the case for many or likely most countries.
As you were.
Carry on, dear.
#57
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Re: A monthly UK budget
As long as you have internet you don't need a TV and cable not for a short rental time anyway.
Council tax needs to be taken into account.
Quality of food is the main thing, eat out every night and ya doomed to a huge bill.
Depends how much driving you do, what size car, insurance and maintenance costs can vary.
Council tax needs to be taken into account.
Quality of food is the main thing, eat out every night and ya doomed to a huge bill.
Depends how much driving you do, what size car, insurance and maintenance costs can vary.
#59
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Re: A monthly UK budget
OK, on the theme of UK budgets, I've looked through this thread and some other UK govt links, but am still not sure if me and my family could afford to make the move back to the UK. I earn the equivalent of about £52000 here in the USA, plus my employer chips in for a pretty good retirement package and most health insurance costs. We do ok, eat nice food, went back to the Uk for a holiday last year etc., but otherwise don't splurge too much. No cable tv, and cheap mobile phones and basic internet.
Looks like I might earn about £35000 for the same job in the UK (landscape architect). We are a family of four, with kids 2 and 4. We'd be ok with 1 car in UK and bus/train, not driving too much. My wife stays home right now and would like to continue to do so if we moved to the UK, but I'm not sure if £35000 is enough to do it, at least until the youngest turned 5 and she could work again. My home town is Dover where rent for a house for us with council tax would be about £1000 a month by the look of it, but where we would live would depend on where I could get a job. Definitely not London, or any other expensive cities. Do you think we could get by on my Uk salary? We have a little in savings we could use until my wife started working again.
Looks like I might earn about £35000 for the same job in the UK (landscape architect). We are a family of four, with kids 2 and 4. We'd be ok with 1 car in UK and bus/train, not driving too much. My wife stays home right now and would like to continue to do so if we moved to the UK, but I'm not sure if £35000 is enough to do it, at least until the youngest turned 5 and she could work again. My home town is Dover where rent for a house for us with council tax would be about £1000 a month by the look of it, but where we would live would depend on where I could get a job. Definitely not London, or any other expensive cities. Do you think we could get by on my Uk salary? We have a little in savings we could use until my wife started working again.
#60
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Re: A monthly UK budget
Really depends on your lifestyle.
Quality of food, car type and amount of travel, going out, clothes you buy, TV and internet.
Other folks can advise who may b sin the same situation with kids and rent but everyone is different.
Quality of food, car type and amount of travel, going out, clothes you buy, TV and internet.
Other folks can advise who may b sin the same situation with kids and rent but everyone is different.