Lower benefits if you live up north

[greenstiles]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... untry.html

Yes Supermarkets charge less up north, they use less petrol traveling around rural areas where services are futher away yer right..(sarcasm)....the only thing that can be cheaper is rented property, but in recent years landlords have got wise and try it on with higher and higher rents.

What a joke....London wants to dig a moat round itself :twisted:

 

[Magsy]

So...Civil Servants are to be paid on a varying scale depnding on where they live. Probably say that was ok but not ok to drop benefits?

North is cheap, so is Wales, it should be less. What it shouldn't be is more (than now) elsewhere.

 

[greenstiles]

I lived in Wales for most my life, food is the same, but you don't get as good a deal as bigger supermarkets, heating is more expensive as you don't always get a choice of gas in some villages. You have to travel more to get to places so fuel costs are higher.

Now we live in england basic costs are a lot less as there is more choice close at hand.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Then you should pay less tax, etc. according to where you live.

(I know you kind of do under this latest thinking, but...)

It really is a minefield.

Can't wait until we say get stuffed to Westminster and join the Euro.

Just us and Germany versus the world then.

 

[greenstiles]

LOL

 

[Rusty Scrubber]

I'm starting to think this David Cameron is a twit (my spelling sucks).

 

[highlandsflyer]

Yes, you meant cant didn't you? (I get my vowels mixed up.)

 

[Mr Panda]

I lived in Wales for most my life, food is the same, but you don't get as good a deal as bigger supermarkets, heating is more expensive as you don't always get a choice of gas in some villages. You have to travel more to get to places so fuel costs are higher.

Now we live in england basic costs are a lot less as there is more choice close at hand.

"Choice of gas in some villages"

I live in a town with approx 9.000 residents, swelling to double that in the summer. We ain't got no mains gas, just big cannisters

Don't get me started on fuel costs.................................

Still, mustn't grumble

 

[Grannygrinder]

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I live in Wales now, my choice having moved from the south coast of England.
Food is no cheaper, electricity and gas are more expensive.
But the biggest difference is the wages, i earn now what i was earning in Southampton 10 years ago for a very similar job.

 

[greenstiles]

north,mid,south ?