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:hello: Good morning people.
 

welsh dragon

Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
WD, Interesting that you feel the cost of living is higher here....I can't translate dollars to pounds nor vice versa in my noggin but reading your comments it seems otherwise. My housepayments off 750 / month plus lights, gas water and trash collection average out to about 1100. Internet access and cell phone for me and a son and DIL 325, Acorn, Hulu, Netflix Amazon prime w/ Britbox and MHZ maybe 70. Gas is low right now, 2.51/gal, eggs 4/doz, 80% hamburger meat 5/lb as some examples. I pay about 300/ mo for health insurance including dental. BTW, the house payment includes 250 for house insurance and property tax. I can get a decent meal for 10-15 although if I drank more than water it would be a lot more. However, there are many places where housing is obscenely expensive with of 4k+ not uncommon in places like LA, New York, Chicago. My sense is that most of youse live in smaller towns and not in London or other more expensive places. I have actually toyed with the idea of moving there, for at least 6 months or so but I don't think I could afford it. I am not sure I could deal with your weather, either, but then again a Wyoming winter may not be your choice either. The summer and fall are tough to beat, though. I have heard it said we only have 2 seasons, winter and road construction.
If you would like to visit to check things out, let me know...got plenty of room. I will leave the light on for you.



Wymington is hellish cold in the winter. Ob the other hand you have some fantastic scenery as well. You can't have everything as they say. :laugh:
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
Morning all, it's -1⁰c outside.
Our son, who is back living with us , temporarily is taking us out for breakfast this morning. He is moving out this weekend as his girlfriend has finally exchanged contracts on her place. So they are renting a house in Amersham for a year, or until they can find a place to buy. There is not much out there at the moment.
So we will have our house back to ourselves.
 

Sterlo

Early Retirement Planning
Morning. Not quite as frosty this morning I don’t think. It’s hard to tell as the council came round with their cherry picker thing yesterday and changed all our lights to some that barely let you see a bloody thing out there :sad:
Changed to LED by any chance? We've got them around us, they're fine if you're underneath them but they're not much use for lighting up a big area.
 

Tenkaykev

Guru
Location
Poole
Good morning folks , coffee made and second cup being consumed. The “ Purple People “ are back putting in the infrastructure for Fibre Telecoms along our road. We’ve been listening to road drills and percussion plates while watching the grabber lorry dropping small piles of backfill.
Today is son’s Birthday so Mrs Tenkaykev can now start thinking about Christmas 🎅
Speaking of which, there’s a very good article in yesterday’s Guardian, their reporter sampled 12 Christmas Dinners in 12 days from the various chains scoring them as 0-5 Sprouts.( He included his mum’s Christmas dinner, she scored a 5 of course 😄)
There’s a wealth of entertainment in the below the line comments, of which there are over a thousand as I write )
 

PaulSB

Squire
Good morning. Very cold and frosty but will be a beautiful sunny day. Not a great deal on today. Christmas quiz with the u3a at 10.30. I'm helping put tables out etc. so need to shoot off soon.

Then down to Lusso so they can assess the kit for repair after that I'll pop to the LBS to pick up my bike and buy a helmet.
 
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Dirk

Dirk

If 6 Was 9
Location
Watchet
Gorgeous sunny and still morning at Croyde beach today. No surf though.:laugh:
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