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UK economy comes to a standstill
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Food in US can be really great....just like people in Italy really do sometimes eat rubbish
Food in Australasia is FANTASTIC though:)
DH and I both somewhat CHOOSE to be in UK, both being entitled to various other 'desiarble places'...we're both mongrels who lived/educated in oter countries too. I poste recently for the first time ever I see that I could be swayed. I love britain, and England, with a passion and I feel very English...its just that the England I felt I belonged to is disappearing. I don't know...may be we are just feeling pessamistic these days. If land were cheaper, jobs less well paid but the countryside a bit less cluttered up I'd not even be thinking about where the grass might be greener.
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Enjoy Austrailia Generali. DH's best friend is in Sydney, he'll never come back...he is in the same kind of work as you (were) and gets let than he would here. Notably though he revealed this years he has saved NOTHING and that his rent is high and while surfing is cheap his other costs of living are not.0 -
The socialists have ruined everything like they did up to 1979. The same tactics to preserve wealth that worked in 1973-1979 are needed again now.
Only difference is this time we also have the mohammedans trying to blow us to smithereens rather that the fenians.0 -
Lotus-eater wrote: »OK Way OT, but the food bit? Umm what?
The food thing:
For most people in England it seems to me that the idea of a meal is to make eating efficient. That is to make a meal and eat a meal as cheaply and quickly as possible. Enjoyment, conviviality and artisanship are all seen as dangerous eccentricities at best.
I hate eating al desko more than anything else that I'm forced to do in England.
Actually I do really like England and the English people although it may not sound like it. The trouble is that we seem to have lost our way a little.0 -
For most people in England it seems to me that the idea of a meal is to make eating efficient. That is to make a meal and eat a meal as cheaply and quickly as possible. Enjoyment, conviviality and artisanship are all seen as dangerous eccentricities at best.
I hate eating al desko more than anything else that I'm forced to do in England.
very funny, and very true. I still eat at my desk and work too hard!0 -
Who cares what everyone else does with food. Its how you make it and eat it that matters.The food thing:
For most people in England it seems to me that the idea of a meal is to make eating efficient. That is to make a meal and eat a meal as cheaply and quickly as possible. Enjoyment, conviviality and artisanship are all seen as dangerous eccentricities at best.
I hate eating al desko more than anything else that I'm forced to do in England.
Actually I do really like England and the English people although it may not sound like it. The trouble is that we seem to have lost our way a little.
I don't know why you are forced to eat at your desk, thats between you and your employer. But the important meal is at night with your family and how does where you live change the way you do that?Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0 -
We have a reasonable restaurant at work and going to eat at lunchtime is a major social event.Happy chappy0
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For most people in England it seems to me that the idea of a meal is to make eating efficient. That is to make a meal and eat a meal as cheaply and quickly as possible. Enjoyment, conviviality and artisanship are all seen as dangerous eccentricities at best.
I hate eating al desko more than anything else that I'm forced to do in England.
It sounds like you need to move to France, not Australia.
I have never had my lunch at my desk and never would. Even when I was an FX dealer, we would always go to the staff restaurant or park, for lunch.RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.0
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