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Social housing rent increases ?
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NMW is 6.19 an hr, *40 hrs a week * 2 people gets you to a combined pre-tax income of £495.20 a week.
Travel costs should be minimal - this is Zone 1, all the action is within walking/pedalling distance. TV Licence is for functional purposes voluntary. Rent is £140 a week, you're going to get a gradual rise when it's next reviewed. Fears of sudden rises are unfounded. You never mentioned what the council tax is - and whether that's with or without the single person discount. Smiles. Admittedly, because anywhere outside of Zone 1 is so bad GOD HIMSELF isn't sure he knows where it is, you won't have a nearby Netto Ghetto or a Runcorn Shopping City sponsored by £-land around the corner. Having to shop at places like Westfield isn't cheap. But it can't be good to spend 10+ years of your youth in one place - get out a bit, try somewhere new, and don't gamble as much, only Betfair win money on here. I probably come across as harsh, but good luck all the same. |
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70 % of london is basically a **** hole
__________ yeah,all those multi millionaires living in London must be pulling their hair out at being stuck there |
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lol at this thread
The millionaires in Lodnon live mostly in exclusive parts, Kensington, Hampstead, Holland Park, but sally is tight, 70% is a ****, i live here and those that don't like coachbuster probably think we all live in mini mansions swanning around in our jags and ferrari's, all 8 million of us  |
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sally is right not tight
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bongo
gf is a student can't afford to contribute nothing but pay her own travel fees and food i live in zone 1, i dont work in zone 1, travel cost over 40 quid a week. a tv is not essential, but 3 a week is worth it and its not that that will see me homelss, its massive increase in rent. fears of sudden rises are unfounded correct,  but they are seriously cutting back on this kinda thing.council tax is band d which is close to 25 a week and i pay 19 becuase of single person dicount -my borough are receiving 2.5 million a ear less from april for this tax which means i will contribute more. i buy discouted crap from places like 99p shop and local tesco/iceland, no luxeries for me. I'm not moving for the sake of moving, i like it where i live, i never said i didn't but it's not exactly plush just cos its zone 1 ,trust me and know this, there are some places and familes in zone 1 worse off than any other zone. Ttower bridge one of the most famnous iconic places in the world - tower hamlets just behind it is the [poorest borough in the country, that's london all over, a face paint |
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3 pounds a week tv licence
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Ttower bridge one of the most famnous iconic places in the world - tower hamlets just behind it is the [poorest borough in the country, that's london all over, a face paint
As I pointed out quite a few times over the years, the open top tourist buses get as far as Tower Bridge, then turn back towards the west end. They don't venture any further east. Fact  |
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London is not poor like it used to be . Used to be overwhelmed with middle age cokney geezer types spitting over the pavement .
Nowadays you have flower baskets outside pubs and bookies, upmarket jeweller's and coffee shops / pattisseries with french sounding menu's . The Immigrant population has certainly brightened up the place . Remember all those derelict units under railway arches in the 1980s , full of beggars and all sorts - nowadays those same units are thriving businesses .The smell of stale urine has now been replaced by the smell of scented soap shops |
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Used to be overwhelmed with middle age cokney geezer types spitting over the pavement
Replaced by asians doing the same, as the east end expresses a friendly welcome to its old adversary, tuberculosis. |
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i never venture up that end
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Yes coachbuster, we're all walking around on gold paving stones down here
i mean ffs, when was the last time you cam to london, it has been spruced up but business close all the time, and there are still many 3rd world areas AKA canning town, peckham, tottenham. |
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If you can't afford to live somewhere then move.
If my family and friends are all loaded and can afford houses in Knightsbridge that doesn't mean I have the right to expect the state to support me living next door to them. The bottom line is that you can't afford to live where you want to live. I think you will find that you are not alone with that problem. |
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The bottom line is that you can't afford to live where you want to live. I think you will find that you are not alone with that problem
The Somalian who went into his local council office and told them 'I don't like living in this poor area.' got moved to a luxury house in a fashionable west end neighbourhood. He gets £2,000 a week housing benefit. Does that sound fair to you? |
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I can just about afford to pay 140 a week in rent on my full time wages
and before you say get a better job, i have tried and you also need people like me, to do the crap jobs |
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Black up your face and get on the dole mate, get yourself a luxury house in Fulham.
And he's not the only one either. I don't know any white families in houses that get over a grand a week housing benefit. |
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AyerRock I realise that getting a better job is often not straightforward these days.
I also understand that you would rather stay put however I do struggle to understand these days why people in poorly paid jobs do not move to cheaper areas and thereby get a far better standard of living. Struggling to make ends meet just so that I could be near to friends and family doesn't sound like much of a life to me. If I were you I would be up north in a shot. |
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I do struggle to understand these days why people in poorly paid jobs do not move to cheaper areas and thereby get a far better standard of living.
a cheaper area would mean a worse standard of living not better, a better standard of living includes mental health and not just financial, going to some run down sink estate or neighbourgood to save 30 off quid a week and miles from family and friends is not worth living for, not to mention splitting up from my gf, I have to think about her too, she doesn't wanna move from her family friends - and miles from her uni too. |
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i believe for the right to live in Zone 1 London i feel residents who do not wish to relocate should have to maybe 'make good' with some community work ...cleaning canals,parks etc , tending to old folk .
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Parts of Lambeth are in Zone 1, they should be paying lambeth residents to live there not vice versa |
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going to some run down sink estate or neighbourgood to save 30 off quid a week and miles from family and friends is not worth living for
Have you ever left London? For the sort of price you are currently paying you could have a really nice place in other parts of the country. I appreciate you may need to stay inLondon whilst your GF is at university however I reckon you would be bonkers not to move after that. Too many people in London put up with a poor standard of living as they have no real idea what their money could get them elsewhere. |
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Its a near compelling tale of work, love and life in the centre of one of the worlds most vibrant capitals, offset only by the pervading sense of entitlement that one should be allowed to do it on the cheap.
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For the sort of price you are currently paying you could have a really nice place in other parts of the country. I appreciate you may need to stay inLondon whilst your GF is at university however I reckon you would be bonkers not to move after that.
You're not listening my friend, i didn't ask to be born here, I was and that's that, I'm not gonner up sticks to please you, I don't want to live in another part of the country, my life is here, I built my life here gf or no gf, I'd still be here, and as I've already told you, it's not just about a better standard of living financially, it's about general happiness to, why on earth would I move far afield just to rent a flat 30 quid cheaper surrounded by people Ii don't want to be surrounded by, i can afford 140, it's step for **** wages like mine but there you go, cant afford much more. anyway nvm I've exhausted this. offset only by the pervading sense of entitlement that one should be allowed to do it on the cheap. so i should move from london and do it on the cheap elsewhere get lost. |
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Why stay in London just because your family live there !
My grandparents lived in Hampstead ,but i couldn't even afford a 1 bed flat there - so you have to adjust to your means - that is the reality of life . Have you tried Canvey Island ? that's close to London  |
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have you thought about moving away from London or getting a better job?
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Coachbuster
22 Nov 12 18:53 Why stay in London just because your family live there ! I moved away. But to London and back with no speeding on the M-way is £50 in fuel. And my daughters can't come to us because the youngest's husband works weekends, and the eldest's husband doesn't drive. I have the in-laws less than 176 yards away though  |