I don't feel remotely supported by the state and I pay privately for all my healthcare.
It's so fooking depressing.
The streets are filthy, essential public workers are miserable because mostly their salaries bear no relation to their essential expenditure, the driving impetus in public policy is further spiritual austerity (they slag the Tories over austerity but at least that stopped at cash and didn't aspire to extend to pleasure and contentment).
It feels utterly hopeless. No one sensible with any choice would live here.
I'm not sensible is why.
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dude some of us have been suggesting that you move (at least to England) for the thick end of 20 years … but you’re still there
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See op
Just explaining how grim it is
In all seriousness plan is newc in 2024
(Thinking ouseburn although the rats last time were a bit much)
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Jesmond is the way
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Well it is lovely
Is sandyford close enough or a subtly entirely different thing?
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Is mental to think how much more money I'll have
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depends on budget really; it’s quite studenty with fewer proper expensive enclaves and a lot of Tyneside flats - but well handy for town. if you really want a house and don’t want to spend Jesmond money I would look Cochrane Park or High Heaton but they are a bit further out.
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or South Gosforth
I REALLY like being able to walk into town but ymmv
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Ideally I'd like a detached with a garden but I know newc like Scotland is more terraces and tenements.
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I too am a walk preferrer (although I think I could walk from high Heaton)
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You’re not getting that close town for less than a million quid; you could look at places like Brunton Park but then it’s a bus to town.
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*or bus and then Metro
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Hm no that's too much
500k would be ideal
I am terraced now so would be fine really
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https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143725877#/media?id=media0&channel=RES_BUY
Here you go …
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I heart this!
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that’s kind of a weird location - not handy for much but it’s a detached house
If you can stretch to it I’d be looking at …
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143194832#/?channel=RES_BUY
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It's handy for the freeman!
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That one is classy but too £
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Are you all still voting for that silly national party?
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Seems labour will race into the lead at the ge
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Where I live is forecast to go red
It's been Tory since 1931
So yes . In 2015 the Tories successfully manipulated fear of an SNP coalition to beat Miliband
Not gonna work this time
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The streets are filthy in London also.
I really need to pat somewhere. It's hard as a litig8er tho.
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”I don't feel remotely supported by the state and I pay privately for all my healthcare.”
All well- off people are in this boat the length and breadth of the country, you have to pay your “fair share” and stfu.
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Yes but in Scotland you pay literally thousands more than in England
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Clerg get thee to england. Wherever doesnt matter. And from there to Paris to become the middle aged dilettante you have always aspired to be.
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🤷🏻♀️ that’s democracy for you
People with money = fair game, pay up
They dont ask you for extra tax so you get potholes fixed or better healthcare they ask for extra tax for the poor and disadvantaged and general spaffing, having money means you have no problems, ever, in your whole life, haven’t you heard? 😉
All of which is why people should pay a lot closer attention to LOCAL politics - that’s how to improve the quality of your actual day to day
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For a lot of reasons I do feel like France could be a good place to see out Clergs 2.0
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Not a notoriously low tax jurisdiction that.
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No but the health care seems less terrifying and they are nice to old ladies
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I can't believe how expensive it is to be left entirely to your own devices
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French healthcare can be brilliant but can be patchy. Me old mum wanted to retire there but getting her on a trial for a chronic issue was easier in old Ecosse than there.
On the upside part time elder support is tax deductible.
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