Anyone else feeling mugged?

[vole]

Sorry for the whinge and I am sure it applies to many but here goes:

I am on a reasonable salary,45yrs old,decent education,other half works.one kid,forced to run 2 second hand small cars,small shoe box house,dont go out,eat well and drink a bit,dont smoke,dont spoil selves or kid.No big holidays etc etc.

I probably am at the peak of what I will ever achieve in health care and I dont have it in me to go into business or be able to finance re training.

After paying the(crippling)mortgage ,bills,fuel mostly to get to work and back,council tax and now bloody dental plan bills or our teeth will fall out we have got absolutely stuff all left and to boot our house is probably going to be worth less than my guns in the near future.

What the bleeding hell do you have to do for a living to be comfortably off in this country? I am massively patriotic but am feeling increasingly pushed towards jumping ship and starting afresh.I wonder where I went wrong and feel tittsed off that I let my family and myself down, but when it takes a quarter of my disposable income to run the car for two weeks you do wonder....

4th biggest world economy by taxing the backside off us.We are being squeezed till the pips squeak.

I dont normally speak as openly as this but I view you lot like my doctor,well you and the man who runs the offy....

Edited March 13, 2008 by vole21

[dustyfox]

Well I dont know what to do at the moment Stay or move but I am wanting to do something first before deciding to move to another country.

[mossy835]

the best thing two do is give the goverment all our money, and they give us pocket money back.

[jonno 357]

Stop drinking

 

Walk to work or cycle

 

Shop at netto or aldi

 

Get an evening job

 

Don't use gas and leccy

 

Sell a kidney

 

If none of the above don't work become a dealer? yep drug dealer

 

Part time work, no tax to pay, self employed, work when you want to, no early mornings and if you get caught you get a slap on the wrist

 

Jonno :o

[col s10]

you have just described me,although you are still at the age when you can emigrate. :o

[Yellow Bear]

I'm the same but not a hope of getting out - far too old :o

[Mrs Sweepy]

you are not alone,

sweepy and myself have this same conversation everytime the bank statement lands on the doormap.

we both work. sweepy more hours then he should do .we have no social life .and nearly everytime i go food shopping you can add a fiver on the bill .

thank god we not alone i was starting to think sweepy had a hidden bank account .

because all that hard earn cash we earn always seem to disapear from are joint account the second it gos in :o

xxxxsuzy

[vole]

Thanks guys. Wife reluctant to leave old folk but Ireland tempting.Lots family there and I like the fishing and would hope to get at least a SG cert.Just feel like we been treading water a while now but getting a sinking feeling lately.This is heavy government and us average working folks are being robbed blind to finance madcap projects.

[col s10]

or suicide .com :o

[jonno 357]

or suicide .com

 

 

:o I was thinking the same

 

Jonno

[col s10]

only messing guys but i have to say me and the wife,both good jobs,are now starting to feel the pinch.weve had to ditch the chablis,and go for the very common chardonnay :o

[jonno 357]

only messing guys but i have to say me and the wife,both good jobs,are now starting to feel the pinch.weve had to ditch the chablis,and go for the very common chardonnay

 

 

:o

 

Its seems like a hell of a lot now are feel the pinch with rising costs with everything we use. The things that have never been as cheap is booze.

 

Oh well I'm off to Cyprus on Sunday to forget about it all and enjoy my Easter in the Med

 

Jonno

[col s10]

its ******* down there :o

[Big_Sam]

Might be worth moving up here mate. The living costs are actually quite bearable compared to Cheshire.

 

Example house, 3 bedrooms, 1.75 acres garden to zero in, £130k http://www.caithness-business.co.uk/property.php?id=1044

 

We have a hospital (short waiting lists) dentist (private, but cheap) Tesco, CO-OP, Lidl, Homebase Argos cloths shops for eh missus. Good College with qualification up to degree level loads of schools to choose from, and best of all tons of Deer and Wildfowling! Also a lot of rooks, though not many pigeons.

 

You will also get a fully open FAC on your first application and only wait around 4 weeks.

 

Crikey it sounds so good I might even stay up here!

[col s10]

i would rather move to pakistan :o

[Big_Sam]

....than Ireland or Caithness?

[Evil Elvis]

:o Dude, there are 15000 vacancies in Oz for our profession...............

[Big_Sam]

And the worst gun laws in the World after the UK.....

[Evil Elvis]

:o Strange that, apart from my semi autos, the oz police said it would not be an issue to bring my guns over.............

[jonno 357]

i would rather move to pakistan

 

 

:o

 

Jonno

[skb 557]

orr mate im sure you have't let you or your family down especialy your family you sound like a really nice bloke and a good person if you wasnt you woulnt be thinking like this you'd be hatefull and blameing the wrong people and hatefull to the world were as it sounds like you live a good life all in all you have a good hart, resonable health your own teeth and a warm home and most importantly your beloved family its just sad that good hard working people lke your selves/ myself and most of the country have to feel and be let down buy our econamy and stinking goverment who dont have any real understanding of what life is like for people like you and me becouse theve never had to only just get buy, well maybe a little and i mean a little at uni and they had a wonderfull ruffing time it 'like the poorpers' but becouse they dont know what life is like for every day folk they make very bad judgemants and think to them selfs i work and my father worked and we want for nothing every one elles must be haveing a spliffing time, and those who have a spliff from time to time they dont give a dam about ha ha.. but that is one reason you n me have to feel like this..

 

sorry dont know what to say now lost my little train of thought but been a good person accounts for one hell of a lot these days mate so well done chin up and be proud coz i bet your family is dead proud of ya heck im even proud of ya

[skb 557]

DO THE POLICE A FAVOUR, BEAT YOUR SELF UP,,,, THEN DO THE GOVERMENT A FAVOUR, ROBB YOURSELF

[bignoel]

I TRIED IRELAND TWICE.BOTH PARENTS IRISH GREAT START I THOUGHT. wrong they dont take kindly to english they have have a long sad memory of the black an tans. especialey in the countryside 2 week holiday is fine when they learn you are staying you become a loner you would becalled a blow in as you wont stay you. will need work one phone call you are f--kt that uk accent does it all for you .dont get me wrong there is a lot of good irish people just the few that dont want you there will make it tough for you. i tried county clare 1999.home by 2001.then tried tipperary 2002 home by 2003.hunting was crapp bad job for pigeons rabbits it was a night mare maybe i was in wrong areas i dont know nights of lamping where cold lonely nothing doing the odd fox O and a hare now and again.citys like dublin i understand are ok but who wants to move to a exspensive city THINK LONG AND HARD BEFORE YOU DECIDE ON IRELAND .

[triscrx]

I can see where you are coming from feeling let down by this government! I live in the south west where the average wage ia £11,000-£12,000 a year. We have our own house etc 1 car between us and we both work. Joint income around £40,000 a year and me and the missus only just get by tbh.

 

we don't go out at all now maybe once a month and we have a little one due in Sept. If it wasn't for my job there is no way any of us would be able to get onto the property market. So god help the youngsters coming up now! And they wander why family life is suffering today. Its because they increase wages by around 2% yet all the bills are going up around 15-20% a year!!!!

 

I think a recession is imminent really, there is no way the country can continue this rise in fuel and living costs for much longer before the bubble bursts!! and what makes it worse is all these fuel company's are admitting record profits every year.. We need someone in power from a normal background who has experience of the real world.

[GamezBond]

Only if the govt reduced our taxes a bit, we would have some breathing space. I believe that Britain is becoming a very rich country of mostly poor people, and this is due to having VERY stupid amounts and types of taxes. please read on..

 

I pay 40% tax on my higher earnings, then pay about 17.5% vat if i want to buy almost everything..., ...and then pay about 80% duty/tax on all fuel if I buy petrol (which also goes up faster than inflation rate i think)....about £130 a month for council tax (which for some strange reason goes up more than the "quoted" inflation).....The gas has gone up around 17% recently (again more than inflation), the rising fuel price pushes up the transportation cost of everything else we buy for ourselves including bread and milk, the dentists have rediculously FIXED high prices, and I last time I needed to see a doctor, i had to wait for 2 weeks to find out why my stomach has been hurting for last 5 days (already 5 days when I asked for the appointment)....The pention age has been increased hence making our elders work hard till they r 65!!!, and I sympathised with those who already receive very little money from their pensions fund to survive in these ever increasing prices...the university students now need to pay for their studies discouraging even more students.......and the house prices increase per year is more than what an average waged person makes in the whole year after tax!!!

Our general expenditure is so high that there is almost nothing being produced in Britain to export except war :o and that where our tax money goes generally.

I hope the situation improves, as for me, I am already looking for jobs elsewhere...cos i read somewhere " a rich person is not who earns a lot, a rich person is who has a lot"...I may be earning quite a bit when compared to some other places on this earth, but if its only going to be hand to mouth (as it currently is) I would rather go somewhere I perhaps earn a little less but spend a sensible amount so I can take care of my children and leave a little for them apart from enjoying some for myself too

Edited March 14, 2008 by GamezBond