US Car buying fun
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Soldato
Your last part is very true, in fact it gets worse. I'm fortunate, Florida is one of those odd states where there is no property tax on cars or even an MOT (slightly worrying). In a lot of the states you pay a tax each year which is calculated from the value of your car. I have friends paying $20-30k p/a in taxes on their collections of cars.
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You have to think $ for £ when you live there, there is no conversion.
My brother was there for 15 months, said it would have cost more to live there not less if his money didnt come from the UK.
My brother was there for 15 months, said it would have cost more to live there not less if his money didnt come from the UK.
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[ui]ICEMAN;17802710 said:
And this is the flaw. Why would I keep the same salary?
A quick google suggests the Average Employment Income per person in the USA is $41k. The same source gives the Average Employment Income per person in the UK as £22k a year!
As for mileage argument, iirc the national stats show that the average for UK and USA is pretty similar.
The official DoT figure for USA is <13.5k
The UK figure is around 11-12k now afaik
Why not go compare bread and butter cars.
Because if you want to compare sports cars, let's compare the prices of imported Mustangs, Corvettes, Vipers etc ...
The official DoT figure for USA is <13.5k
The UK figure is around 11-12k now afaik
You are simply being an idiot now, you keep comparing premium cars from European manufacturers, cars that are manufactured here and will clearly be marked up for the USA market due to being sports cars.[ui]ICEMAN;17802710 said:
Why not go compare bread and butter cars.
Because if you want to compare sports cars, let's compare the prices of imported Mustangs, Corvettes, Vipers etc ...
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[TW]Fox;17802750 said:
Because your source is wrong, the salary varies vastly state to state, in FL for example and most of the South excluding CA, the average salary sits a couple of thousand above the UK's.
I see it all the time at University here, people assume they're going to walk out with their degrees and earn $100k, the reality of it is they're going to be earning $30-40k at best for the first few years. Even doctors like myself only earn $50k for the first 4 years.
I too will post nothing in internet forums except one liners beginning with 'i too'.
[ui]ICEMAN;17802759 said:
And over here fresh out of Uni you earn £15-28k at best for the first few years (Except on OcUK where everyone is loaded obviously) not £30-£40k.
So you've inadverently supported my point.
It really doesnt seem like its £ for $ at all.
If its £ for $ salary wise why is the GDP Per Capita of the UK and the USA within $5000 of each other?
Surely if a £50k salary here is a $50k salary there the UK should have a much higher GDP per capita than the USA.
Except it doesnt....
Surely if a £50k salary here is a $50k salary there the UK should have a much higher GDP per capita than the USA.
Except it doesnt....
Soldato
[TW]Fox;17802780 said:
I don't know what more proof you want. I live here, I earn a very large salary each year and *I* am complaining about the costs of living here vs the UK.
I'm not the type to have an argument for the sake of it, you know me far too well for that. I've lived here long enough to support my opinion and there are others in here too that have had first hand experience of my point. Lets not forget that you don't have health insurance coming out of your salary either, which while it's largely balanced by the lower income tax, can do some serious damage to you financially if you're unlucky and can't get the coverage you need.
Edit - Almost everything in the USA if you equated 1:1 costs MORE in generic currency. You would need a higher salary in $ just to overcome that. I will concede that in the USA salaries are slightly higher, but they're not high enough to equate similar living costs.
[ui]ICEMAN;17802803 said:
I think your large salary is isolating you from the rest of the market. It might well be the case that once you reach a certain level of earnings power there is £ for $ parity.
But I certainly dont think it's the case for lower jobs. You yourself have said people coming out of Uni are 'lucky to get 30-40k'. Thats £18-£25k which is infact almost exactly what the typical range for a graduates starting salary is in this country.
It would be £30-£40k if you what you say is true, surely?
Now let me demonstrate to you with conclusive proof that EU chicks > American
Conclusive proof, much like my 3 week holiday there last year showed me all I need to know about £ vs $, UK vs USA living expenses.
Of course I too also look at BMW forums, which tell me conclusively that 8 year olds earn $70k a year.
Lock the thread now please, point proven, facts presented, argument won. [ui]ICEMAN is probably a 12 year old boy living in Surrey posting from his parents bedroom, can I get my internet detective points as well now the thread is being closed.
Conclusive proof, much like my 3 week holiday there last year showed me all I need to know about £ vs $, UK vs USA living expenses.
Of course I too also look at BMW forums, which tell me conclusively that 8 year olds earn $70k a year.
Lock the thread now please, point proven, facts presented, argument won. [ui]ICEMAN is probably a 12 year old boy living in Surrey posting from his parents bedroom, can I get my internet detective points as well now the thread is being closed.
Soldato
Keep in mind my uni is medical, those professions pay higher by their very nature. All of the employees in my wife's company earn $20-22k a year except for the execs who earn $50k.
- Please refer to my edit in my previous post too.
Even if the salary in the UK is lower for grads than than in the UK, on a 1:1 basis, everything or almost, costs more in currency than it does in the UK. The cars I've mentioned are hugely more expensive and computer hardware is also much more expensive and these are just examples. My point is that if the salary *doesn't* go up by the same % that the prices do, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that we're actually suffering a higher cost of living than in the UK.
- Please refer to my edit in my previous post too.
Even if the salary in the UK is lower for grads than than in the UK, on a 1:1 basis, everything or almost, costs more in currency than it does in the UK. The cars I've mentioned are hugely more expensive and computer hardware is also much more expensive and these are just examples. My point is that if the salary *doesn't* go up by the same % that the prices do, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that we're actually suffering a higher cost of living than in the UK.
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