Rip-off Britain - inflation is 5% now?

Uther said:
Where do you live now?
https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp
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The trouble with these sites is that they just use empirical formulae and not always particularly well targeted. They use pollution and traffic and cost of housing etc. They do not use population density which encompasses at least some of the preceding. Quality of life is so much more than a number.
To be used with a pinch of salt really.

https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/indices_explained.jsp
 
Hagar said:
The trouble with these sites is that they just use empirical formulae and not always particularly well targeted. They use pollution and traffic and cost of housing etc. They do not use population density which encompasses at least some of the preceding. Quality of life is so much more than a number.
To be used with a pinch of salt really.

https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/indices_explained.jsp
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Well cost of a roof over your head is going to be a big one for 'quality of life'. Obviously people who already live in a paid for house won't care so much.
Then again, the countries in the top positions in that chart have pretty high taxes IIRC.
 
I was inspired by your actionless whinging FoxEye; I just called Virgin and got them to reduce my bill from £43.50 to £28 with about 3 minutes of my time expended on the exercise.

Thank you!
 
arknor said:
was he the really high earner like in the top 3% for the UK that thought he was like "average"? so many mega rich people on here it's hard to keep track of all the Ferraris and lambos

not a hater though, they gotta brag somewhere and I guess on the internet is better than in real life.

smug gits! lol :D gimme a ride in your sweet cars!!!! so jelly :D

my neighbours would probably die of shock if I got dropped off in a super car :eek:
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In 2018 you needed £98,700 gross income before tax (or £73,000 after tax) to be in the top 3%

£175,000 to be in the top 1%. Thats 4 people where I work surprisingly enough and we are up North.

https://www.gov.uk/government/stati...1-to-99-for-total-income-before-and-after-tax
 
@arknor Nope, not me. I've never earned above nat. average wage. These yearly 5% increases will hurt.

It's clear that the people talking about "shouting at clouds" are the high status, Gucci belt wearers.
 
Hagar said:
Last month I negotiated £22 broadband (fibre 35) with anytime calls boost at £7 (half price). The previous time, 18 months back, I had seen a price for £19.95 BB with free calls boost. I went on chat and was told that was for new customers only so I got it for the £19.95 but paid £5 calls boost.
Absolutely fed up I emailed the CEO pointing out their terms and conditions and received a £90 rebate for the calls boost.
With talktalk and I suppose all of them you need to negotiate hard. This is a pain and frankly wrong. Some people will obtain a cheaper price, I include me, others who let it ride will pay much more for the same service. I always spend at least an hour on chat for me and then for the MIL arranging an 18 month BB contract. It is ridiculous however you have to do it.

I have already arranged the MIL does not get the price increase, now I will have to do it for me.
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I got what I thought was a great deal through talk talk.

I was about to leave for virgin. But when said I'm leaving they dropped my price to 20ppm for fibre 65.
I was paying 22 for the 35. Amazing!

Although virgin was 100. The talk talk minimums were better. And no engineering work.

20ppm I thought was great (no calls)
Leaving threats work wonders
 
dLockers said:
I was inspired by your actionless whinging FoxEye; I just called Virgin and got them to reduce my bill from £43.50 to £28 with about 3 minutes of my time expended on the exercise.

Thank you!
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I'll need to give them a ring.

What's that for though? I've only got broadband with them nothing else and I'm paying a similar amount around £40 could be a few quid either way.

350MB.
 
FoxEye said:
@arknor Nope, not me. I've never earned above nat. average wage. These yearly 5% increases will hurt.

It's clear that the people talking about "shouting at clouds" are the high status, Gucci belt wearers.
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To be fair the demographic on these forums are skewed. There are quite a few percent in the top 1% and a much bigger group in the top 3%.

With you only needing £54,900 to be in the top 10% earners I suspect 50% of forum users will fall into that group.

Overclocking hobbies tend to attract more people who are above average earners.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
I'll need to give them a ring.

What's that for though? I've only got broadband with them nothing else and I'm paying a similar amount around £40 could be a few quid either way.

350MB.
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I paid £43.50 a month and have done for ages. 100MB. I obviously was expecting the £3.50 increase.

On asking to be put through to retentions I had an automated script read out a £3.50 discount for six months. Spoke to the lady and with zero discussion she basically said "best I can do is 28 quid, ok?".
 
Greebo said:
To be fair the demographic on these forums are skewed. There are quite a few percent in the top 1% and a much bigger group in the top 3%.

With you only needing £54,900 to be in the top 10% earners I suspect 50% of forum users will fall into that group.

Overclocking hobbies tend to attract more people who are above average earners.
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The sad thing no one realises is that we are all in the 1% globally :)
 
Greebo said:
To be fair the demographic on these forums are skewed. There are quite a few percent in the top 1% and a much bigger group in the top 3%.

With you only needing £54,900 to be in the top 10% earners I suspect 50% of forum users will fall into that group.

Overclocking hobbies tend to attract more people who are above average earners.
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I think that's changed over time. These days you're probably quite right.

When we all started it was about getting more for less. Beating the man :p I'm sure we all remember the pencil trick (etc).

But yeah these days it's a totally different hobby/community. All about splashing the cash now :p
 
dLockers said:
The sad thing no one realises is that we are all in the 1% globally :)
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I don't think that's especially true anymore.

Poverty and wealth is (and has been becoming for a while) much more globalised.

Many of the traditionally "poor" countries now have a wealthy middle- and elite class. The "wealthy" countries like the UK now have some pretty extreme poverty, some of the worst in Europe.

This is the inevitable result of globalisation.

Look at India. Extreme poverty *and* a recognisable middle class/elite class that would fit in right here. And that's the story recently.

The UK's poor, meanwhile, are currently on a downward trajectory. Maybe we'll have our own extreme poverty soon enough.

The wealth divide here and globally is only getting worse, year on year.

(The true "hell holes" are the ones endlessly ravaged by civil wars and tribal conflicts. Much of that fuelled by certain religions.)
 
it's all relative too where you live though, someone working mcdonalds in switzerland is on around £18-20 an hour but their living expenses will be super high
 
FoxEye said:
The wealth divide here and globally is only getting worse, year on year.
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It's an interesting one, in the last few years I've watched several people get some cash through being smart, (when I say cash I mean, 4x people in my immediate circle all making over $1m each). One of them in about 5 years has gone from being modestly well off, to just moving into a house in Malibu. (yes Malibu....)

Now, part of me applauds him for being smart and knowing how to invest, but the amount of money he's made just from investing - it's crazy, just crazy.. Basically at the start he got lucky with an IPO and it went from there.
There's something which feels unbalanced about how quickly and easily someone can make $tens of millions, just in investing - whilst 'normal people' scrape through.

I'm not complaining, or saying it's morally right or wrong - but it feels, imbalanced..
 
FoxEye said:
I think that's changed over time. These days you're probably quite right.

When we all started it was about getting more for less. Beating the man :p I'm sure we all remember the pencil trick (etc).

But yeah these days it's a totally different hobby/community. All about splashing the cash now :p
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Indeed. That 1Ghz Athlon converted to a 1.4Ghz cpu using a pencil was what first brought me to the forums back in 2001. :) Bang for buck was the name of the game back then.
 
Bouton Aide said:
So you saying out of 158,013 users, 79,006.5 earn over £54,900? bahahahahhaha

So total given wages for a year would be £4,337,456,850
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Didnt realise we had got to 158,013 users. :eek:It probably doesnt apply to the current temporary forum users, a lot of who will have joined during the 3xxx series debacle. I should have perhaps said "regular" forum posters.

But in general you only have to look and the motor forums, items i have purchased, peoples builds in signatures, 3090 and Titan purchase threads, new build threads etc to realise the makeup of annual earnings on here is skewed to normal population.

Do you honestly think there are only 10% of people of here earn more than £54,900 per annum?
 
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