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Cerv posted:variations on this article pop up every few months. I think they're generated by bots to promote whichever estate agent wants their name in the news It's talking about couples I think "millennial couples", even so a fiver a day each? I'd struggle to feel full for much less than that given the options near my workplace. e: 106AD - Trajan conquers Dacia, paving the way for hordes of proto-Romanians to move freely through the Empire and undercut honest Latin labour. sebzilla fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Nov 14, 2017 |
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Zephro posted:Bonus: if you don't eat you can invest in a 6-foot-by-3 wooden box and never need to buy any other form of accommodation. Ever.
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Nov 14, 2017 13:16
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I knew a guy in uni who actually spend a couple of months living in a tent in local woodland lol
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Cerv posted:variations on this article pop up every few months. I think they're generated by bots to promote whichever estate agent wants their name in the news And that excludes the cost of the meal you're preparing at home too.
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Dabir posted:Lolling forever that so many still think she isn't This but crying instead of laughing
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Yeah, millennials are the worst someone give me a newspaper column please. e: I can be your 'one of the good ones'
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sebzilla posted:It's talking about couples I think "millennial couples", even so a fiver a day each? I'd struggle to feel full for much less than that given the options near my workplace. I mean it was also a pretty lovely lunch with little nutritional value and I'm not recommending anyone else does it. quote:I knew a guy in uni who actually spend a couple of months living in a tent in local woodland lol
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ThomasPaine posted:I knew a guy in uni who actually spend a couple of months living in a tent in local woodland lol There's been cases of people literally living in the university libraries. Mostly apocryphal, but I know one of the managers and she says that it has happened.
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Walthamstow council forced one of their workers out of his job when he was featured in a radio programme about lovely housing in London. He was commuting up from Penzance every week then living in a tent on the campsite at Epping Forest. http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/8320842.LOUGHTON__Camping_commuter_reveals_story_led_to_problems_at_work/
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Pretty sure Theresa De Villiers hair looks like it has come from The Sims. Framing her face with two sides of a triangle.
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Zephro posted:Bonus: if you don't eat you can invest in a 6-foot-by-3 wooden box and never need to buy any other form of accommodation. Ever. funerals are so expensive lots of people are getting paupers funerals
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Nov 14, 2017 13:25
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Zephro posted:I used to buy plain two plain bagels and a banana from Tesco for lunch when I was living in London on a pretty lovely salary. Admittedly that was *mumble mumble* years ago but I think it cost under a quid. When I got a pay rise I ate the pre-packed sandwiches for a few weeks and that was enough to put me off mayonnaise for life. If I'm feeling frugal I'll walk to the co-op and buy a pot of hummus and some rolls for a couple of quid. If I'm feeling lazy or sociable it's the food court of the shopping centre over the road which usually means a (West Cornwall) pasty or a burrito from El Mexicana, both of which I can get 10% off for flashing my staff card. In theory we're budgeting around £8/day on food for a family of three though so shelling out for a pre-made lunch is really not a smart thing to do with any regularity.
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Not Operator posted:Yeah, millennials are the worst someone give me a newspaper column please. Bow tie: £12 Sport coat: £60 Cashmere jumper: £45 Chinos: £30 Thank you for buying your Young Conservative Startup Kit, a blog post about the left being the REAL fascists has been posted in your name.
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Zephro posted:Bonus: if you don't eat you can invest in a 6-foot-by-3 wooden box and never need to buy any other form of accommodation. Ever. No you see the value of the coffin - located in a desirable up-and-coming area - will rise, and allow you to move up the ladder to a nice crypt when you decide it's time for your corpse to have kids.
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Zephro posted:I used to buy plain two plain bagels and a banana from Tesco for lunch
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goddamnedtwisto posted:it's time for your corpse to have kids. *bloated corpse explodes to release a thousand spiders*
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Jose posted:funerals are so expensive lots of people are getting paupers funerals can't wait for someone to earnestly bring back the concept of mass graves
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Can I point out that article also includes you being given a bunch of money by your parents
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MikeCrotch posted:can't wait for someone to earnestly bring back the concept of mass graves Think of the savings! Now that’s compassionate conservatism; providing the opportunity to make massive savings on your (early) death.
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MikeCrotch posted:can't wait for someone to earnestly bring back the concept of mass graves live in a crematorium to avoid heating bills
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Nov 14, 2017 13:41
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Jose posted:time to stop eating sandwiches if you want to buy a home londonailures
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MrL_JaKiri posted:There's been cases of people literally living in the university libraries. Mostly apocryphal, but I know one of the managers and she says that it has happened. A dude did this in my grad school for awhile, before he didn't wake up in time one morning and got caught by the cleaners and kicked out.
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Cerv posted:tell me you threaded the banana through the two bagel holes And tell us slowly, with lots of detail 
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The whole over-centralised thing is nothing to do with German history; it's simply the inevitable consequence of a nation whose primary trade is banking. Back when Britain had an Empire and made things London had nowhere near the economic dominance it now enjoys: the North, Wales and Scotland were all critical parts of the Imperial economy. Now Britain is one of the most centralised states in Europe, and it's not because London Better or More Efficient it's that every other economic generator in the country is dead. Fwiw this is what dying imperial states look like across all time periods: a retreat to the capital, economic collapse in the periphery as it becomes less relevant to taking and maintaining power, growth in ultimately self-devouring industries like futures speculation, house prices
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Obliterati posted:Fwiw this is what dying imperial states look like across all time periods: a retreat to the capital, economic collapse in the periphery as it becomes less relevant to taking and maintaining power, growth in ultimately self-devouring industries like futures speculation, house prices And then endless prosperity for all?????
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Cerv posted:variations on this article pop up every few months. I think they're generated by bots to promote whichever estate agent wants their name in the news The bigger problem with that article is that to "save up" enough for a deposit after 5+ years, you have to cut out a night out per week, ditch a short holiday, don't get takeaways, bring in a packed lunch every day, and STILL need to be "lucky enough" for £29k from your parents to be able to have the necessary deposit. So basically live a poo poo life and have rich parents with 30k to spare and you'll be OK to buy a box! It is undeniable that a lot of young professionals are bad with their money, and piss away far too much on booze and other things. But it's pretty disingenuous to blame the issues with getting on the housing ladder on this, rather than the soaring house prices.
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quote:According to the calculations from agents Strutt & Parker, giving up a night out once a week could save more than £6,000 a year, I could take a plane to a London and have a few pints and return and still not hit this figure. Who’s spending £110 on a night out every week?
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CoolCab posted:wealth to expand upon this a bit, it's really amazing to me to hear people (justifiably) being terrified of brexit and also then going "no london needs to keep all the money because they make all the money " these two things are directly correlated - so long as there are more people outside of london then in it and there is ludicrous wealth disparity, you are going to have a huge mass of people who will vote against it literally out of spite. what - are they going to double starve?
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Obliterati posted:The whole over-centralised thing is nothing to do with German history; it's simply the inevitable consequence of a nation whose primary trade is banking. Back when Britain had an Empire and made things London had nowhere near the economic dominance it now enjoys: the North, Wales and Scotland were all critical parts of the Imperial economy. Now Britain is one of the most centralised states in Europe, and it's not because London Better or More Efficient it's that every other economic generator in the country is dead. Is there any way to reverse this? Because at the moment we’re a monoculture economy staring down the financial equivalent of the Irish potato blight.
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MikeCrotch posted:can't wait for someone to earnestly bring back the concept of mass graves It's no worse than being buried in your own plot and then dug up to be put in an ossuary or charnel house after your fleshy bits are gone, and your headstone replaced with a plaque on the wall. I suppose the advantage of that is that you can get creative.  Tesseraction posted:And then endless prosperity for all?????
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Tesseraction posted:And then endless prosperity for all????? Well, there's at the very least the consolation prize of public executions? Unless you're on the list of course
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Cerv posted:variations on this article pop up every few months. I think they're generated by bots to promote whichever estate agent wants their name in the news Making lunches at home is not free either so to get a ten quid net saving the cost of buying sandwiches must have been estimated at about 12-15 quid per day(!). Their fictional saver is putting away 860 quid a month for five years and is still 12 grand (!) short of the self-imposed target after five years.
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Fans posted:I could take a plane to a London and have a few pints and return and still not hit this figure. Who’s spending £110 on a night out every week? Judging from some of the people I've seen on a Friday night (before I return to my home early to read a book and go to bed for 10:30 PM sharp) they get off the clock and hit the bar and don't stop 'til 3 AM. That's plenty of time to piss away that much money if you keep buying drinks.
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Fans posted:I could take a plane to a London and have a few pints and return and still not hit this figure. Who’s spending £110 on a night out every week?
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Guavanaut posted:Usually conquest by another empire is the next bit, but I'll leave it to the Daily Mail to bloviate wildly about which one. Junior G-man posted:Well, there's at the very least the consolation prize of public executions? So... March 2019 Revolution leading to the Union of Socialist Anglo-Celtic Republics?
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Obliterati posted:The whole over-centralised thing is nothing to do with German history; it's simply the inevitable consequence of a nation whose primary trade is banking. Back when Britain had an Empire and made things London had nowhere near the economic dominance it now enjoys: the North, Wales and Scotland were all critical parts of the Imperial economy. Now Britain is one of the most centralised states in Europe, and it's not because London Better or More Efficient it's that every other economic generator in the country is dead.
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Im my 20's I could easily piss away 100 quid with the taxi home too.
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Jose posted:funerals are so expensive lots of people are getting paupers funerals Wanna ride on the ghost train when I'm dead   quote:the London Necropolis Railway was the spookiest, strangest train line in British history. It transported London’s dead south-west to Brookwood Cemetery, near Woking, in Surrey, a cemetery that was built in tandem with the railway.
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Ewan posted:To many, a night out is not "a few pints". At £5 a pint and £8-13 a cocktail (before you even consider nightclub drink prices), it doesn't take long for a night out to hit £100+, and that's before you consider food. London nights out are eye wateringly expensive. I've had many £100+ nights out and if I was more reckless could easily have made it a weekly habit (albeit one that would have bankrupted me). So that’s what, twelve cocktails or twenty pints? In a night? For you alone? Are you... sure you don’t want to talk to someone about this? 
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Ewan posted:To many, a night out is not "a few pints". At £5 a pint and £8-13 a cocktail (before you even consider nightclub drink prices), it doesn't take long for a night out to hit £100+, and that's before you consider food. London nights out are eye wateringly expensive. I've had many £100+ nights out and if I was more reckless could easily have made it a weekly habit (albeit one that would have bankrupted me). 
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