Posted on 01/10/2008 7:01:22 AM PST by fweingart
And furthermore, what good is so-called "free" health care if you have to wait up to three weeks before you can even see a doctor? I'm not sure it's that way in the U.K., but I know it is in Canada, who's health care system is always being so highly touted in the media.
I'd rather pay a little more money and be able to see the doctor on a day's notice if I want.
I visited for about ten days when my daughter was in legal studies there. Stayed at a place she had rented in East Kennsington.
Loved the London experience. Loved the people I met there and out in the countryside.
We had an acquantance of the daughter who was a young attorney. We compared wages, taxes, urban condo prices, healthcare versus insurance and all the rest to what would be an urban Washington, DC cost comparison.
Only to the highest priced US cities was the London suburban living even close. The US wages and standard of living was much better in many other US locations.
That being said, these newspaper generated things are always weighted by leftist amenities.
Just because the pound is worth $2 on the foreign exchange markets does not mean that it spends like $2 in the UK -- it doesn't and that's what the entire premise is based on.
Take a chill pill.
I was not saying that we don’t have any problems here in the USA...I was just saying that a hole in Manchester somewhere sells fo a cool 1/2 million!
You can buy a palace here in the US in most places.
No it is not a lower standard of living. Europeans have the Utopian standard that the rats envision. We are raping this good earth with our large homes, cars, boats, malls, private schools, and over consumption. The rats intend to make us live a sustainable lifestyle according to their Utopian vision.
Rather like being from California. Some take every opportunity to run down this beautiful state.
FRegards,
Ha-ha-ha-ha. Show me your teeth, laddie.
LOL! I have heard this nonsense from all corners of the EU in my travels.
My trainees, who are mostly all from there, are usually a bit shocked to see the difference, and also load up on a ton of gadgets and other things that they could never afford back home, but which every American kid carries in his pocket.
Including, I might add, my training.
The Big Book Of British Smiles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZCzKko03W4
Interesting comments on the subject:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-22429,00.html
For later
I do. But I know 300 cameras don’t see me every day.
There are more private cams here, the percentage of govt cams are not nearly as high here.
I was over there in the early 1990s.
Every TV has to have a paid-up license sticker on it. Govt TV (BBC channels) are funded by TV licenses. To watch live TV stations, you have to have each TV you own have a valid license. They have vans that drive around that can determine if you have a TV on, and they can inspect your TVs. Big fines if you don’t have a license.
Now, the one caveat is that if you don’t watch live TV on them, but say, watch DVDs or videotapes, you don’t need a license for that. I got into a conversation with someone and basically you could have a friend make a DVD of the weeks’ programs and give you a copy and technically you would not be watching live TV, but a taped program on tape/DVD.
There are two ways of measuring GDP for comparison. The fair way is to measure by “purchasing power.” This article uses the other way — measures it in pounds, which is obviously skewed by the relative strength of the pound to the dollar right now.
The consistently government-knocking BBC would be amused to see itself described as ‘Govt TV’!!
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The Northeast has some unbelievable bargains...you do not know the northeast if you say that.
Here is an example:
I daresay a house like the one I posted in 138 would cost over 2 million US in the UK...plenty of examples like that.
Not all the Mortheast is NYC or Boston...I might add
Just because govt-funded tv knocks the current government doesn’t mean that’s not how they get their money.
They may think they are “public tv” like the PBS stations in America. And trust me the shows on PBS are overwhelmingly left leaning. But PBS gets its money from a congressional budget too.
Self-delusion? Self-loathing?
Whether they recognize it or not, their subsidies come from government policies that force people to pay to keep those stations broadcasting. And the other big difference is that in the UK many of the ‘over air’ stations are government run. In America over the air 1-2 stations are PBS, the majority of over the air stations are private.
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