Rikki-UK:
Pitiful 
now you have been shown the truth that’s all you can come up with?
Mumsnet has better trolls than you 
(not a personal attack just a comment on your ability to troll)
I suggest next time you try , do it on a subject where it is a bit of an effort to prove you wrong…
1/10 - must try harder
May I just say in defence off my Home Counties off the south coast and southern areas that we don’t all share the same views and opinions as my southern friend here, I would like to thank ex-haulier for making us southerners look like southern fairys with his poor lack off argument and awful come backs if at all possible can we end this thread now before any more damage is done to our reputation I would be extremely grateful rikki.
Karl, I was born and bred down South, - and most of my family live on the South Coast and Southern Counties, don’t worry I know that this one person is in no way representative of folks from the area, I am just letting him hang himself, its too easy to more he types the more ludicrous his original outburst becomes.(if possible)
sapper:
It doesn’t matter where you are from, if you need to travel to work to feed your family and have a basic standard of living, you will work for whatever the going rate is. Tell me, that if you were like the East Europeans, on 30 quid a week in East ■■■■■■■ and you were offered 150 a week in England, you wouldn’t do it, we are all trying to earn a living, don’t blame the guy steering the truck, blame the spineless [zb] we choose to govern us.
Sapper
That’s another thing - I would have thought the eastern Europeans would have an argument like Rickkys ie you might earn a mere 30 Euros in ArschfickOst, but you can fill your freezer, have a few beers down the road, and there’s no house to pay for, since you inherited it from the outgoing communists…
Perhaps we should have stuck up houses opposite a haulier’s yard for better comparison…
I didn’t even make a note of where that house I posted was btw. Was that second pic showing another side of the road a reference to “Swivel” by any chance? 
I hate commuting. I’d really like to earn a fair wage for a job very near me. Since I can’t get that, I’ll have to settle for as much money as I can get going where the job demands instead.
I don’t think this situation will last forever though in these parts, but where it’s 50 miles between small towns? Who’s going to be the big new incoming employer for a remote area come the upturn when it happens?
Winseer:
I hate commuting. I’d really like to earn a fair wage for a job very near me.
Winseer:
I was asking for some follow-up on where you can buy a decent 3 bedroomed semi for less than £130k up north?
Within a mile of that £86K house I posted there is a large industrial complex that has a large number of HGV’s working out of it, within 2 miles is a huge steel works, with the resulting transport needs, within 5 miles is a container port, and an ASDA and TESCO warehouse. all of which have trucks based at or use local hauliers. hardly a huge commute .
Now I am not denying the wages are less up here . but have shown what you can get for your money, I am also not saying that getting a start up here is easy at the moment, because it isn’t.
But £7.50-£8 an hour up here does go a lot further- than £11 down south
how does £3.50 an hour less go a lot further?
when your mrs gets a trolley load of groceries its approx £120 , when you fill your car up its £1.50 per litre . wherever you live / work in the country that price will not rise or drop by the 35% pay difference
ramhead:
how does £3.50 an hour less go a lot further?
when your mrs gets a trolley load of groceries its approx £120 , when you fill your car up its £1.50 per litre . wherever you live / work in the country that price will not rise or drop by the 35% pay difference
Don’t you worry, our economics prof will be along shortly to explain how less is really more and you should be happy to earn less for the pleasure of living in the north.
plus the less you earn the less income tax you pay. happy days■■?
i live in the east where theres a lot of ploes/liths doing most jobs for not a lot of pay
ramhead:
how does £3.50 an hour less go a lot further?
when your mrs gets a trolley load of groceries its approx £120 , when you fill your car up its £1.50 per litre . wherever you live / work in the country that price will not rise or drop by the 35% pay difference
Your missing the point, you can afford a larger house in a better area providing a better quality of living for your family, on a smaller hourly rate, our mortgage on a house like the one above( except we have a driveway big enough for 3 cars) , is just over £300 PCM, an equivalent house in a village location down south would be a lot more and I suspect out of the reach of most folks on £11 ph, that’s how your money goes further.
I agree many costs are the same or similar (except beer which is £2.60 a pint atm in the village, when I go to the office in Sutton its £3.70+ all adds up !! ) but on property you do get a lot more bang for your buck, so you may earn less - pay a lot less in a mortgage against a similar property down south, so cash in pocket probably works out similar at the end of the week, but actually have a better lifestyle in housing and location plus they do parmo’s up here 
which makes all the difference
PS… I am not defending £7.50 as adequate recompense for the job !!! just defending the ability for a company to have smaller overheads away from the South
£2.60 a pint , its been over £3.00 for a couple of years now, unless i go to weatherspones
They got Fullers London pride on in the club this week as their guest ale, and yes its £2.60
ramhead:
plus the less you earn the less income tax you pay. happy days■■?
Are you one of those idiots that says “I’m not doing any overtime, the tax man will have it all”?
[zb] me. Some people are stupid. 
no iam salaried , with no paid overtime
ramhead:
no iam salaried , with no paid overtime
So you do plenty of free overtime then? As long as the tax man doesn’t get his hands on it though, eh?
[zb] me. Some people are stupid.
its just the same. them or us
Ex Haulier:
ramhead:
how does £3.50 an hour less go a lot further?
when your mrs gets a trolley load of groceries its approx £120 , when you fill your car up its £1.50 per litre . wherever you live / work in the country that price will not rise or drop by the 35% pay difference
Don’t you worry, our economics prof will be along shortly to explain how less is really more and you should be happy to earn less for the pleasure of living in the north.
You already answerd it pal…its a pleasure living up here
Contraflow:
ramhead:
no iam salaried , with no paid overtime
So you do plenty of free overtime then? As long as the tax man doesn’t get his hands on it though, eh?
[zb] me. Some people are stupid.
who said he did overtime…
i dont do any overtime , when my 9 1/2 hour shift is finished its home time, ahhh happy days
There are so many foreign drivers in Boston Linc’s that the average rate of pay around that area is £6.80p per hr. You get more pay than that stacking shelves in Tescos.
Driver-Once-More:
more popcorn anyone? 
Yes, please - can interest you in a couple of cheese and pickle sandwiches?
Kettles on.