Nice People 13: Nice Save

GDB2222

I am apparently best off moving to Hertsmere. I knew I am really an Inner Herts person.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

Ah, but it is a north south split. The number of houses in band d depends on where in the country you are. So in the south east 8.81% of houses are band a, 3.3% in London... compared to 56% in the north east

http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/instanceSelection.do?JSAllowed=true&Function=&%24ph=61&CurrentPageId=61&step=2&datasetFamilyId=938&instanceSelection=029872&Next.x=27&Next.y=24

It's only worth comparing English areas though, due to different systems elsewhere.

Not sure why Westminster is such an outlier... My guess is that it gets a significant amount from other sources. Do business rates go into local or central coffers?

Central I think? Didn't they announce last week that Greater Manchester and Cambridge (not sure if anywhere else) were going to get their business rate money for the first time?

Edit: though I think the number of residential properties in westminster is relatively small so perhaps don't need so many eg refuse collections (do businesses arrange this privately?)

LydiaJ

Wheezy wrote: »

dnqwd

You can get a badge if you want one.

Nikkster wrote: »

I can't wait to get there. I will have a party :j
I will go to sleep knowing it is all mine, and wake up knowing I am truly choosing to get up and go to work.

I am doing what I can to bring that date forward. This time next week I'll have paid off 10% of my mortgage, 18 months in, meaning I'm on schedule to clear it within 15 years - half the original term. I'd be extremely happy with that

Congrats Wheezy!

Well done so far, Nikkster! :T

CKhalvashi

lostinrates wrote: »

Non RP flew into the country today and the doggies and I went to pick up at the airport. Where I learned dogs are no longer allowed in the airport .

Which airport is this LiR?

Just curious as to why they won't allow a dog in, although airport management companies are a law to themselves.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Probably there are no schools there to pay for. Schools cost more than a bit of bin emptying.

It wasn't an exhaustive list

PasturesNew

Windy and wet here today. Glad I did the washing yesterday/early as I had it on the airer by the open door most of the day so 90% of it's 90% dry.

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

It wasn't an exhaustive list

I've found an answer! It's because Westminster is able to raise so much revenue from parking charges:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-2008094/A-136m-apartment-council-tax-national-average.html

bugslet

vivatifosi wrote: »

I have a different view again... same sized family, same sized house. In Hull, Band A, in the £900s. Cheapest 3 bed in Herts (Stevenage) Band C, over £1300. The minimum wage is the same everywhere, so why have a system that penalises the average family in the south?

Runcorn Band B is £1112 p.a., I suspect that Runcorn and Stevenage rates are much the same, though I'd put Runcorn on a par with Hull.

Doozergirl wrote: »

...and we're back to looking at people poorer than ourselves...

I'd pay more than £400 more to live in Herts over Hull

I'm grumpy this evening. It shows.

I'd rather live in Runcorn than Stevenage, and I know both quite well. They are both New Towns.

Generali wrote: »

I'd be best off in Fylde and worst in Eilan Siar. Never heard of either.

The best view in Stevenage:



Yup, it's the road to London.

That was my worst place as well, best place was Hart in NE Hants. Fylde is up by Blackpool , it's quite posh.

There is one good thing about that photo, just turn your head left, no a bit more and look back a bit..that's it, bugslets nice trucks can be seen from the A1.;)

PS 8/10 for knowing my Belgians - complete guesswork!

lostinrates

My lips are swollen again. Not as much and not quite as perfectly symmetrically but about the amount I would have them done if I were ' doing my lips' ( which I wouldn't do). Its a fun game this. Its like the stuff you see people doing on a computer screen when they try different size enhancements on pictures on themselves, but I' doing it for real. Much more fun! (Though my lips feel scratchy). I'm not convinced its not a bite or something. It feels different to an allergy swelling and my bottom lip isn't involved at all. The only similar feel is the slight tingly/very mild burning stretchy feeling of the stretch of the swelling. Doesn't explain why it went up a bit again over night though.

Oh well, its fun. .

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's not a north/south split.

I would point out that the council tax in Westminster is ridiculously small compared to other areas.

Westminster band D £681.68
Richmond band D £1,490.60

Where I live, band D £1,626.67
Where my sibling lives, band D £1,512

I doubt there is a property in Band D in Westminster. If there is, I'm pretty sure the average property is not a Band D.