Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]
Discussion
.hidetheelephants said:
They aren't.
I've waited two years and counting for a dentist. Been going 15 years (he just left as had enough of the UK )Two weeks for a doctor's appointment minimum.Last one was 3.5 weeks. Food costs very high to salary and smaller sizes. Fuel costs, I've not rich enough to afford an electric car.
Rent is around 30% of a salary or more, plus bills etc easy end up over half your wages just for a roof over your head, and pretty crap one
Loads of cars and people everywhere.
Road conditions are the worst I've seen in my life.
Beer is crazy priced in pubs.
For a normal person living day to day, is it massively crapper.
One thing is the poverty to wealth gap in real terms, the social care system is also not actually very supportive if you have an illness but bit a state authorised illness.
There are millions of people on benefits, many years never had a reassessment.
Edited by mickythefish on Sunday 23 June 10:56
mickythefish said:
I've waited two years and counting for a dentist. Been going 15 years (he just left as had enough of the UK )Two weeks for a doctor's appointment minimum.Last one was 3.5 weeks.
Food costs very high to salary and smaller sizes. Fuel costs, I've not rich enough to afford an electric car.
Rent is around 30% of a salary or more, plus bills etc easy end up over half your wages just for a roof over your head, and pretty crap one
Loads of cars and people everywhere.
Road conditions are the worst I've seen in my life.
Beer is crazy priced in pubs.
For a normal person living day to day, is it massively crapper.
One thing is the poverty to wealth gap in real terms, the social care system is also not actually very supportive if you have an illness but bit a state authorised illness.
There are millions of people on benefits, many years never had a reassessment.
Perhaps it is just a problem with Sheffield?Food costs very high to salary and smaller sizes. Fuel costs, I've not rich enough to afford an electric car.
Rent is around 30% of a salary or more, plus bills etc easy end up over half your wages just for a roof over your head, and pretty crap one
Loads of cars and people everywhere.
Road conditions are the worst I've seen in my life.
Beer is crazy priced in pubs.
For a normal person living day to day, is it massively crapper.
One thing is the poverty to wealth gap in real terms, the social care system is also not actually very supportive if you have an illness but bit a state authorised illness.
There are millions of people on benefits, many years never had a reassessment.
Edited by mickythefish on Sunday 23 June 10:56
Where I live in Surrey,
The NHS dentist is chasing me to book an appointment.
I have had a series of scans to investigate a medical problem. All carried out very efficiently and promptly.
Loads of work available.
Pub? loads of 'em. Have you tried Wetherspoons, at least half a dozen in Sheffield, Sirloin steak and a pint for twelve quid.
You haven't got a Labour council by any chance, have you?
Alickadoo said:
Perhaps it is just a problem with Sheffield?
Where I live in Surrey,
The NHS dentist is chasing me to book an appointment.
I have had a series of scans to investigate a medical problem. All carried out very efficiently and promptly.
Loads of work available.
Pub? loads of 'em. Have you tried Wetherspoons, at least half a dozen in Sheffield, Sirloin steak and a pint for twelve quid.
You haven't got a Labour council by any chance, have you?
Maybe so the solution is to move. I grew up in the 80s, power cuts etc the situation now is dire. Thing is you become trapped through various reasons and without substantial investment, which will never happen can only see it getting worse tbh. Debt mountain will mean more things will be cut for normal people.Where I live in Surrey,
The NHS dentist is chasing me to book an appointment.
I have had a series of scans to investigate a medical problem. All carried out very efficiently and promptly.
Loads of work available.
Pub? loads of 'em. Have you tried Wetherspoons, at least half a dozen in Sheffield, Sirloin steak and a pint for twelve quid.
You haven't got a Labour council by any chance, have you?
mickythefish said:
Alickadoo said:
Perhaps it is just a problem with Sheffield?
Where I live in Surrey,
The NHS dentist is chasing me to book an appointment.
I have had a series of scans to investigate a medical problem. All carried out very efficiently and promptly.
Loads of work available.
Pub? loads of 'em. Have you tried Wetherspoons, at least half a dozen in Sheffield, Sirloin steak and a pint for twelve quid.
You haven't got a Labour council by any chance, have you?
Maybe so the solution is to move. I grew up in the 80s, power cuts etc the situation now is dire. Thing is you become trapped through various reasons and without substantial investment, which will never happen can only see it getting worse tbh. Debt mountain will mean more things will be cut for normal people.Where I live in Surrey,
The NHS dentist is chasing me to book an appointment.
I have had a series of scans to investigate a medical problem. All carried out very efficiently and promptly.
Loads of work available.
Pub? loads of 'em. Have you tried Wetherspoons, at least half a dozen in Sheffield, Sirloin steak and a pint for twelve quid.
You haven't got a Labour council by any chance, have you?
Stop Press.
Mrs A has just (Sunday morning) taken a phone from the hospital offering an MRI scan tomorrow.
mickythefish said:
Like most problems if it doesn't impact you directly , then it is isn't an issue I guess. An example, some dentist waiting lists are nearly a decade. This is a 1st world country.
Go to one that doesn't have a 10 year waiting list. My dentist will fit you in within a couple of days. I recent had a check up, and needed a wisdom tooth extraction. It was done a few days later.As you say we live in a first world country, and we have choices.
98elise said:
Go to one that doesn't have a 10 year waiting list. My dentist will fit you in within a couple of days. I recent had a check up, and needed a wisdom tooth extraction. It was done a few days later.
As you say we live in a first world country, and we have choices.
Yes people can move like that. I've tried 25 mile radius myself. I'm not only one.As you say we live in a first world country, and we have choices.
30k children waiting to see one. 8.5k 9 year wait. That's just two news stories.
Only one third of the population goes to a dentist as well. Imagine if more went. Crazy anyway for the amount of taxes we pay, highest tax burden in UK history.
Master Bean said:
Visiting forces drive around on US plates for a short while right after the car arrives until they can get the lights modified and an MOT accomplished so the car can be registered in the UK. On the other end, I drove around in Washington State on my UK plates for a few weeks, too.mko9 said:
Visiting forces drive around on US plates for a short while right after the car arrives until they can get the lights modified and an MOT accomplished so the car can be registered in the UK.
You mean exactly how I said in my post? I even posted a link to the relevant web page. Here's the link again for you
https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/...
Here is the relevant section:
You can usually use a vehicle with foreign number plates without registering or taxing it in the UK if all of the following apply:
- you’re visiting and do not plan to live here
- the vehicle is registered and taxed in its home country
- you only use the vehicle for up to 6 months in total - this can be a single visit, or several shorter visits over 12 months
Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Sunday 23 June 15:48
mickythefish said:
UK has 2.7 billion debt, 120 billion on interest payments alone. Let's say global interest rates don't increase how long would it take realistically to repay it all off?
It would depend on how much of the debt we pay down each year. At the moment thats zero, because we're running a deficit.Edited to add...
Debt is 2.7 trillion, not billion. The deficit is 40 billion
Edited by 98elise on Sunday 23 June 17:31
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