Rip-off Britain - inflation is 5% now?
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Haven't looked into mobile bb recently, but don't they have (low) limits on the data you can use when tethered?
Ie, you can only use that data on your phone. Which is fairly useless for those of us who wfh, or use the internet mostly from their PC.
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Argument: your threads are normally about things in your control which you choose not to control.
This one doesn't seem to state a limit. But it is £17 a month, though that's similar to budget broadband. http://preprod-store.three.co.uk/mo...catalog/threecatdevice/23203?alltariffs=true&
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I feel your pain, when I moved one of the things that struck me the most was how cheap the utility bills are elsewhere.
1GB internet - £16 a month
Electricity - £23 a month
Water - £2.50 a.month
No gas, no council tax & no bloody tv license. In the UK the monthly.bills were £300+ per month for a flat 1/5th the size of my new house and with crap internet.
1GB internet - £16 a month
Electricity - £23 a month
Water - £2.50 a.month
No gas, no council tax & no bloody tv license. In the UK the monthly.bills were £300+ per month for a flat 1/5th the size of my new house and with crap internet.
Thanks. I see no real reason why this country has to be so expensive. It's not like the UK is some kind of paradise
We just seem to have accepted the milking. And obviously worse is to come.
I wonder when we will reach a point when people have had enough. Constant price hikes are the order of the day, and the hikes are getting bigger, now.
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so leave then. Go elsewhere and deal with the challenges that brings - I've done it and I imagine you probably can too.Thanks. I see no real reason why this country has to be so expensive. It's not like the UK is some kind of paradise
We? Source? Worse to come? Insufferable.
Who controls your purse strings? And who is this 'we' you talk about again?
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What's the average wage though of people there?
That will explain the price differential.
You can't compare prices living somewhere that the average annual wage people make in less than a month here.
@HungryHippos Yup, that worked a treat
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Somewhat true. the average wage being £650-700 a month isn't comparable with the uk but it still doesn't match up bill wise.
The average thai isn't working from home with the aircon and air purifiers on 24/7 with a couple pc's / laptops, 3 monitors etc burning through electricity. Add on a bunch of fish tanks etc and my electricity is multitudes higher than average.
Same for the internet, 1GB isn't average. Even the water bill is high as i water the garden each day.
even with my numbers it's like 5-6% of an average monthly income. Most people are probably spending 3-4% on household bills. Most people will spend more on their car/petrol by comparison.
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Hush child, let the man have a whinge as is his god given right dammit!
@FoxEye what are your options for a new ISP?
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It’s also very selective, I could just as easily quote the USA where the local provider has an effective monopoly, puts in place bandwidth caps and chargers more than double what you would pay here. It’s normal in the USA to have zero choice over most utilities. You could argue that the U.K. is really a fux choice but it could be a lot worse but at least contrived competition brings the price down for some.
Foxeye could be paying closer to $80 a month for FTTC, have a bandwidth cap and have no choice of ISP to switch to because there isn’t any others. Their mobile plans are similar in nature, hugely expensive compared to here.
The US is an utter mess in that regard (and many others) though.
My answer to people saying Britain is rip-off is 'why live here then'? Many people come to the UK for the lifestyle and the facilities. If Thailand floats your boat then OK however I would prefer to live here than there even with the weather same goes for Aus or NZ or almost anywhere else. The grass is always greener they say and the perception rather than the reality is true.
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The UK is just becoming housing battlefront with nothing to do.
Well go somewhere else. I am sure in my 68 years I have always found things to do, places to visit.
Yep.
I used to hate the UK, I used to think it sucked and everything was a rip off. Then I went and lived in a few other countries over the years and travelled a lot, then I started to realise that the UK is actually fantastic, it really is.
Value for money on most things is really good, quality of life is very good - I'd move back in a heartbeat if I could.