Re: OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
 

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Re: OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
 

What do you think?

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Re: OVER 50's & 60's MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II
 

I could watch the Abbey Road Live Webcam for hours because it is raining there in London.

I'm off to Los Angeles this morning and I'm not looking forward to it.
Tonight LA
Tomorrow night Las Vegas
Next night, home.

Cheers

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It doesn't show anything only a google sign in page

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YES Its what you pay on your house in the US each year if you are a home owner ---- its Just called property tax over there I think,
But renters in US dont have to pay the property tax --- thats the owners responsibility, thats my point you see cause over here the land lords collect there rent and somehow the government gets the council tax/property tax from the tenant each month,

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WITHOUT ---- BUT WITH PAYING A MINIMUM OF £600 FOR A RUN OF THE MILL ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT, + utilities/food/council tax/internet/ and dont forget personel hygene products for yourself and cleaning probucts for the flat, and as there is no car then there will be high bus fares back and forth to work, £15,000 per year is only £1200 per month ---- now when at least half of your net income is taken up with rent then obviously your sure as hell not going to have too damn much left,
Rodney.
PS besides if TONY DIDENT HAVE A CAR HE WOULD NOT HAVE HIS JOB, remember --- (job requirement) and Denise is not yet 60 and maybe neither is Tony so they will have to pay for there prescriptions --- each Item £8, that can quite mount up if you have a few Items each time, so thats even more expense, and Im sure theres a heck of a lot of things that I have forgotten that one needs to just survive,

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I just spoke to my friend in Dorset. She said its been raining on and off for weeks. I aslked her if she missed anything from the US. She has been back in the UK for 6 months she said apart from the weather not really. She had been away for more than 10 years and said that she fell back into her old life almost immediately. There are a few things that annoy her. The cost of getting anything done in your home is very expensive. They need work done on their bathroom and she said the estimates were ridiculous. So her husband is doing it himself. Food she finds a little cheaper but heating the house she feels is more expensive. Her main moan is parking. The parking area's are always full and they do not give you very big parking spots. The traffic is awful but she is getting use to it. I forgot to ask her what the company was that shipped her furniture she was not pleased with them at all. I shall ask her next time I speak to her.

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Jasper123... thats correct in the US the renters do not pay the property taxes. I wish we had rented instead of buying.

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With regard to some of the comments about Sheltered Housing ... I'm not old and neither is my husband. He's 51 and I'm 56 and we are VERY young at heart. The only, and I mean the only, reason we are even considering Sheltered Housing is because of the cost.

It's cheap.

We have no intention whatsoever of participating in any of the activities that are [usually] offered .... unless it's something we fancy. For example, sometimes these places will sponsor bus trips to the coast or something like that. Hell yes I'd take them up on that if it's a good deal. Why not?

In a nutshell, it's the least expensive housing option we've found to date. Doesn't even mean we'd accept it if one comes up. It would depend upon our circumstances at the time. But we figured there's no harm done in going ahead and getting on the list.

By the way - I have a job interview on Friday for a solicitor here in Staines. ;)

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Here are your answers, oh cheeky one: yes, she is from Frome. And today went well, and - I also applied for an Arts coordinator position here in Frome. Busy day. Have an artist friend coming over on Friday, and we are organising an event for the Frome Creative Network - the group I met with last week, and again today.

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Hi Barb I will check out the Frey Bentos steak & Kidney pie tomorrow when I go into Iceland, I love Em too, and they also have a real nice large sliced white loaf with a crusty crispy top, and unlike french bread --- it keeps crusty in the fridge for a week, £1 a loaf

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Rodney, this rent is very much dependent on where you live. I think Peigi pays £325 per month for a furnished flat, my sister pays £400.00 for a 2 bed unfurnished in Runcorn, I paid £500 per month for a fully furnished two bedroom flat with views of Lake Windermere.........all plus council tax and utilities of course............

Here in Australia my rent is more than 50% of my take home pay.

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Yes, I did get off lightly - at the time of rescuing my bag from the Heathrow baggage claim, I did not think anything had made it intact, because the bag was flattened a lot, and shaky - and the sound of tinkling broken items was evident. Oh well - at least I got most of the set still - I did leave the most expensive, and largest, items with a family member, asking for them to sold if at all possible: teapot, and 2 serving dishes which I do not like. Or they can go to my children when I die - if they care to have them. I am not sending for them - not worth the price of shipping, and I don't miss them. (china, not children!)

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True, I'm not particularly a Homes Under the Hammer watcher, but recorded it to test my new PVR recorder. If you don't know it, it's a show in which they follow people who buy houses at auction and do them up, then the show gets the house valued (for sale and for rent).

In this particular show, they had a very nice, large 3-BR semi in Stoke, which I think they said would rent for £400. The 3BR upper flat in Edinburgh, on the other hand, would rent for closer to £1,000, apparently.

There is as much variability in house rental values as in house sale values - about a 4-fold difference from the worst areas to the best areas (and even more, if you're talking anywhere close to London centre).

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I am exactly with you Denise, I will keep meself to meself and not join in with the residents activities in the lounge room. :lol:

When I managed that place in Somerset, there were a few who did that, maybe the more young at heart like us. :thumbsup:

It's all about what you make of it, living in as I did as a House Manager, I didn't join in as I felt it best to keep my work/home life apart (tips from my sister who had previously done the job), I just joined in once with a Christmas meal. So it needn't be any different living there as a resident.

I do believe you are correct though Wind, it seems to be only one pet which is not to be replaced when said pet dies.

Denise VERY good luck for the job interview in Staines :fingerscrossed:, who knows we may work near each other at this rate.

Still no news on my job front, boss was supposed to be back at work yesterday, but he got stuck in Hawaii for the last few days unable to get a flight (stand by) my heart bleeds for him, what a place to get stuck in LOL!!:D