Goodbye to rip-off Britain

Quote from Vinny1:

It would just be a long vacation, for a year or so. Wife and I would just get an apartment around London and then travel 2 weeks each month to different cities around Europe.

I'm hoping that it's not a bunch of hoops to jump through for an American to get an apartment in England?
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give brussels a thought then: ppl speak english, city's cute, its more central, rents, F&B etc are tons cheaper, weather's tons better and your still no more than an hour or so from Ldn... or geneva? even better weather
 
Quote from gnome:

Dang! Doesn't sound like that COULD be "friendly". They need to let go from that Revolutionary war thingy. :D
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haha,just kidding dude,deep down the whole of Europe think we're a bunch of 'coonts'
 
Yes, blah,blah,blah, don't forget the young frustrated female South Korean students that pack Borders (Charing Cross Rd) every evening, or the Polish & Brazilian babes serving £5.00 soggy sandwiches at Pret A Manger, or all those girls on the tube after paying £3.00-5.00 single tube fare :D Or the tall Sikh/Punjab babes all over.

Yes its friggin expensive, but as one poster said if you do Outer SW London or around Greenwich you will have a ball. Wimbledon,Southfields,Barnes,Richmond ? If you need occasional herbal mood enhancers but in a good area try Streatham,Clapham and Dulwich.Been in Fulham 6 yrs and just started to realise what a p!55hole it is. Healthwise make sure your insurance is proper or sneak your way onto a GP (family doctor) register, otherwise should you need any form of treatment and have to pay it would be circa £380-450/night before touching you. Do not worry about the Police they tend to shoot innocent young Brazillian men without warning.

You will also see/find that the English have an exagerrated and upper crust view of their "City" (financial district) resulting in most ladies dropping their knickers/panties if they smell any link you might have with the world of finance,especially when you say TRADER !! :D Hedgistan here covers Green Park, Picadilly, Mayfair and parts of St James .Whatever you do never ever ever buy anything for your mouth from a chain of 5000 calorie snack shops called GREGGS http://www.greggs.co.uk/customer_care/our_products/

Get yourself a Private Eye Magazine subscription, do not read the Daily Mail (or The Metro-freebie paper) & The Mirror newspaper. You will find news in the FT 18 hours old, The Sun silly,Daily Sport to saucy, The Telegraph has a cartoon strip called Alex which personifies most inbred "City" types. You may read The Guardian if you live in/around Islington,vegan,PETA/Greenpeace activist and hug trees :p If you aspire for a certain social class or status do tell us and will tell you what to wear; tweed jackets (Scottish made only) with red pants for the landed gentry or tracksuit bottoms and Reebook classic trainers if working class. Also expect to pay £120/month for local authority taxation for rubbish collections once a month.

IMHO BIGGEST & ONLY advantage is being able to play in Asia, Europe and then with the Yanks during high volatility periods with ease to the body :cool:

Regards

Cygnus Atratus

P.S. Remember not to use any firm of Estate Agents (Realtors) that has grotesquely painted Mini Coopers.
 
Quote from magari:

101 things to pss you off about England/London

1. The fact that I pay probably more than 50% tax on my income but that I have to teach my daughter the subjects that her idiot teachers cannot be arsed to.

2. I am all for helping people in desperate need but LOVE the fact that I have to support all these useless fckrs too lazy to work.

3. The joy of having the government close down the post offices.

4. The fact that it rains 80% of the time but we run out of water in a hot summer.

5. Driving on a motorway is an exercise in avoiding all the moronic drivers but have you ever seen a traffic cop giving out a ticket? No, much easier to sit on your arse and let the cameras catch easy violations.

6. That Boris Johnston is a serious contender for mayor of London.

7. A cashier steals from Fortnum and Mason and gets 2 years in jail; a non drunk reckless driver kills a woman and gets a suspended sentence.

8. How EACH and EVERY government department is beyond useless but manages to piss money away faster than George Bush on hopeless projects that a corner shop owner could manage better.

9. The fact that my 50% tax gets me the right to go into hospital and have a 60% chance of catching a superbug.

10. That we deport people to get tortured in Zimbabwe but don’t deport people who have committed crimes.

11. That today I had to pay £1 for a fkg courgette and it will probably taste like a cardboard egg carton.

12. That when you go to a top restaurant you will fork out £300 on a meal and it is still tasteless.

13. That although ken Livingstone allows utility companies to dig up a main road and then do no work for weeks on end while traffic crawls past every day.

14. That you have top civil servants who earn in excess of £150000 but they cannot see the importance of deporting foreign criminals or the downside of releasing a convicted terrorist early because of overcrowding.

15. That there are so many people who drink the sewage that Starbucks calls coffee.

16. That I have to pay for people who get sick because they eat or smoke themselves into a coma.

17. That the FSA’s Head of Retail is on a salary of £380 000.

18. That the Tories who are probably more incompetent than Labour will get back in next time

19. That the Daily Mail is still going.

20. Add blah blah blah
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21. Spoiled Brit brats who whine about everything, despite living a relatively free and privileged existence.

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"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."

- the Dalai Lama.
 
Quote from Cygnus Atratus:


Get yourself a Private Eye Magazine subscription, do not read the Daily Mail (or The Metro-freebie paper) & The Mirror newspaper. You will find news in the FT 18 hours old, The Sun silly,Daily Sport to saucy, The Telegraph has a cartoon strip called Alex which personifies most inbred "City" types. You may read The Guardian if you live in/around Islington,vegan,PETA/Greenpeace activist and hug trees :p
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You left out Viz and News of the World. Are those fine publications still running ?
 
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21. Spoiled Brit brats who whine about everything, despite living a relatively free and privileged existence.

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"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."

- the Dalai Lama.
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22. That children are allowed unsupervised access to the internet
 
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