UK prices WOW
Feb 21st 2006, 12:08 pm
#61
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Re: UK prices WOW
Originally Posted by Bob
Think glasgow in Trainspotting, with southern chavs 
Feb 21st 2006, 12:13 pm
#62
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Re: UK prices WOW
Originally Posted by Bradford Lass
Well said, I'm so tired of 'behaving myself' 
Feb 21st 2006, 2:26 pm
#63
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Re: UK prices WOW
Originally Posted by Dually Driver
Just returned from two weeks in the Oxford area. How the hell does anyone afford to live in the UK anymore. 
Gas at .95 per litre, a pint costs 2.20 and the prices at the grocery stores are crazy. :scared: Forget eating out, a pub lunch runs at least 10-12 per person. I'm not even going to mention the cost of houses... Dear old mum says "At least we have free medical." She doesn't realise that she's paying for it everytime she buys something. God bless the US 
Gas at .95 per litre, a pint costs 2.20 and the prices at the grocery stores are crazy. :scared: Forget eating out, a pub lunch runs at least 10-12 per person. I'm not even going to mention the cost of houses... Dear old mum says "At least we have free medical." She doesn't realise that she's paying for it everytime she buys something. God bless the US Beer is expensive in the UK in the inner city pubs but half the fun of walking into town was to stop in the smaller cheaper pubs on the way in and to catch a few happy hours. Also drinking at home is really cheap these days with all the supermarket/off licience deals I think I paid about £12 for a case of carlberg export and thats with out going getting the special euro imported on the back of a van beer. How many people actually get their fags from the shop these days when dave down the checker will sell a carton at next to nothing.
Gas prices are steep but then how many of us on here drive much larger cars than we would back in the UK.
The only thing I do find expensive is the house prices and all the new houses being built are squeezed into tiny plots that couldn't swing a grizzly bear in.
Feb 21st 2006, 2:48 pm
#64
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Re: UK prices WOW
And Prostitutes, a tuppenny whore in the uk is a $10 hooker over here!
Feb 21st 2006, 2:51 pm
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Re: UK prices WOW
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
Petrol, expensive.
Eating out, expensive.
Houses, f**king ridiculous.
Beer, ok.
Living in a country where I don't have to come onto an internet chatroom to find more than 3 people with a sense of humour - PRICELESS
Eating out, expensive.
Houses, f**king ridiculous.
Beer, ok.
Living in a country where I don't have to come onto an internet chatroom to find more than 3 people with a sense of humour - PRICELESS
lol soooo true...
kinda sad for us though 
Feb 21st 2006, 3:30 pm
#66
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Re: UK prices WOW
Originally Posted by Eskimo
I'm more interested in knowing why after I leave the UK beer goes down by about a quid a pint 
lol
Feb 21st 2006, 3:33 pm
#67
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Re: UK prices WOW
Originally Posted by Dually Driver
Just returned from two weeks in the Oxford area. How the hell does anyone afford to live in the UK anymore. Gas at .95 per litre, a pint costs 2.20 and the prices at the grocery stores are crazy. :scared: Forget eating out, a pub lunch runs at least 10-12 per person. I'm not even going to mention the cost of houses... Dear old mum says "At least we have free medical." She doesn't realise that she's paying for it everytime she buys something. God bless the US
Gas at .95 per litre, a pint costs 2.20 and the prices at the grocery stores are crazy. :scared: Forget eating out, a pub lunch runs at least 10-12 per person. I'm not even going to mention the cost of houses... Dear old mum says "At least we have free medical." She doesn't realise that she's paying for it everytime she buys something. God bless the US
Feb 21st 2006, 5:06 pm
#68
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Re: UK prices WOW
Originally Posted by Bob
Well that's Oxford for you ain't it, a tad of an expensive city and area...could always live in a mong style dump and move into blackbird leys, hillingdon or cowley
Feb 21st 2006, 5:50 pm
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Re: UK prices WOW
Originally Posted by elfman
err.. Trainspotting is set in Edinburgh
Feb 21st 2006, 5:51 pm
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Re: UK prices WOW
Originally Posted by Partystar
Or the slightly nicer, newer place, Greater Leys!!!
Feb 21st 2006, 6:15 pm
#71
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Re: UK prices WOW
Originally Posted by Bob
hehe...only in name sake, would love to see the car insurance rocket on that one
Feb 21st 2006, 8:50 pm
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Re: UK prices WOW
Originally Posted by britontour
You are talking about what used to be joy ride central right?
Feb 22nd 2006, 12:18 am
#73
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Re: UK prices WOW
[QUOTE=Jerseygirl]
I have not been back to the UK since 1997 and even then found things to be pretty expensive. I still cannot comprehend how first time buys get that foot on the ladder. When you see programs like "Location, Location, Location" and "Homes under the hammer" and see these one bedroom flats being sold at a bargain in South London for 380,000 pounds it make me cringe. Are people really earning that much money that they can afford to have that kind of mortgage?? Are they now 100 year mortgages with no money down, or what?? When I worked in conveyancing it was customary to put a 10% deposit down when you bought a house. I can't even begin to think about finding 38,000 just for the deposit. :scared:
Originally Posted by Dually Driver
Just returned from two weeks in the Oxford area. How the hell does anyone afford to live in the UK anymore.
That's exactly what my husband said when we were there at Christmas. Although medical costs in the US are a worry. You are OK if you have med/prescription insurance, good health and lots of money, although if you have a long term illness the latter is soon eaten away. On the other hand my mother who cannot walk due to arthritis in her knees was waiting years before the NHS would perform surgery. On the day of her surgery she was told that at 80 she had become too frail for such a major op. :scared:
That's exactly what my husband said when we were there at Christmas. Although medical costs in the US are a worry. You are OK if you have med/prescription insurance, good health and lots of money, although if you have a long term illness the latter is soon eaten away. On the other hand my mother who cannot walk due to arthritis in her knees was waiting years before the NHS would perform surgery. On the day of her surgery she was told that at 80 she had become too frail for such a major op. :scared:
I have not been back to the UK since 1997 and even then found things to be pretty expensive. I still cannot comprehend how first time buys get that foot on the ladder. When you see programs like "Location, Location, Location" and "Homes under the hammer" and see these one bedroom flats being sold at a bargain in South London for 380,000 pounds it make me cringe. Are people really earning that much money that they can afford to have that kind of mortgage?? Are they now 100 year mortgages with no money down, or what?? When I worked in conveyancing it was customary to put a 10% deposit down when you bought a house. I can't even begin to think about finding 38,000 just for the deposit. :scared:
Feb 22nd 2006, 12:30 am
#74
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Re: UK prices WOW
Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas
Got to wait till our Tone steps down...
I think about 80% (ie the working, non-chav part) of the population will vote for me.
I think about 80% (ie the working, non-chav part) of the population will vote for me.
"Oi, why do I have to go with Mum and Nan, I'm *****ing too old for that."
I'd've thrown him out of the flat but Mum and Nan obviously were deaf.
Feb 22nd 2006, 1:20 am
#75
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Re: UK prices WOW
Originally Posted by snowbunny
Heard over the weekend, on a council estate, from a 17-year-old boy on his way shopping:
"Oi, why do I have to go with Mum and Nan, I'm *****ing too old for that."
I'd've thrown him out of the flat but Mum and Nan obviously were deaf.
"Oi, why do I have to go with Mum and Nan, I'm *****ing too old for that."
I'd've thrown him out of the flat but Mum and Nan obviously were deaf.
please take a number and wait to be called young sir:
