Nido

Check out the £ against 26 other major currencies of the world - shocking reading

BBC NEWS | Business | Market Data | Currencies | Sterling v US Dollar

Torquemada

Aye, point taken.
I guess that if you did confirm that the original post was possibly a nod to trollism, it would only fuel fires etc. but you did vere towards that and explain your reasons so thats coolioolioolio
I'm just a bit against any kind of censorship, although, with your explanation it's probably warranted here.

Anyhoo, speaking of people moving away to other climes etc., I've noticed a number of temps that we did have at work have decided they were getting out of here and never coming back as they were sick of the way we're governed and taxed. I feel the same but can't go anywhere!

It does amaze me when I hear how much some people I know have borrowed in the last few years, with no way or intention of paying the money back. Not on really and I have no idea why the banks thought it was ok to give people all this money

Matteeboy

Well I'm SO glad that NL got into bed with supermarkets who made the UK completely reliant on imports in order to slash prices and increase profits...
And almost laughed as UK manufacturing collapsed.

Our sole "USP" of being the centre of finance has now gone. We are quite literally a pretty sickly little country right now.

Petem95

This country is so, so screwed - Labour's response to the mess they've contributed to is appauling as well.

We've had a situation where banks have been lending out money which people have no chance of being able to pay back, so people can buy massively overpriced assets like housing, and now all Labour want to do is try and prop-up this madness with more [borrowed] government funding

[blood boiling] We're looking at 5-10 years of economic hardship in the UK thanks to this now, and when the world economy finally starts picking up again the UK will be so crippled that other countries like will steal our advantage, and we'll continue in terminal decline. [/blood boiling]

The Chief

Not by what people tell me. Canada have loads of jobs - if you live near the big cities especially near Alberta, although wages are lower but the cost of living is lower too.

Good friend of my sisters has just buggered off to Perth which is booming, i watched on some programme that their economic growth (six months ago before all this kicked off) was higher than China!!!!! they went over with a few grand in their pocket her bloke was a maintenance engineer, got a job did 4 week didn't like it, walked out and was offered another straight away with more pay and better conditions.

First it was hard but now they have joined an expats club, made loads of aussie mates and wished they did it years ago. you have to be under 45 though if your working so get your skates on Matt

My sister is going for a holiday next year and if they like it , they're going too.

Matteeboy

Pah - I still have 13 years left...
Couldn't move to Oz.
Wife has a lot of family there (loads went out in the early 1900s) and we've been for three months - too Americanised, crap coffee, crap cars, too far from family.
Canada sounds like hell too (got very good mates who moved) - no sense of humour at all and almost no surf!

If I went out of the country, it would be to SW France. I LOVE the French lifestyle and way of doing things. Plus I speak the lingo.

dpb

I reckon Botswana pretty stable

- unless your mortgaged to the hilt or on benefits ( in which case you might as well stay put here )


France possibly , if the rellies wont allready there

Timwinner

iTrader: (3)

J'ai pensé de l'Australie et de Canada. J'aime l'humour canadien comme les garçons de parc de caravane et les gosses dans le hall. J'ai utilisé pour habiter en la France quand j'étais plus jeune. Pour le premier peu de semaines j'ai aimé le mode de vie mais un peu plus tard être honnête que je les a trouvés pour être paresseux. Je pense si nous de toute saison l'orage dans ce pays alors il viendra bon. Son aller juste prendre le temps, la dédicace et quelque bonne vieille lèvre supérieure raide.

As you can tell I moved back to England about 10 years ago

The Chief

Matt i like France but dont like the people (maybe i'm being stereotypical here) They sell us their mangy old onions yet burn all our sheep

Now Canada i would be tempted, Nova Scotia i would imagine has great surf and only 6 hours away. on the West coast, Victoria on Vancouver island - someone told me it is heaven on earth (expensive though)

Torquemada

....or if you're a new home owner who bought their place a few months before everything went to crap. Fine with paying mortgage etc. but has to wait for things to restabilise before thinking of selling up as their place is still a great investment due to location etc. and will be viable for sale in 5 years or so

Weathering the storm

unclebuck

Nah, just racist.

Torquemada

yep

Matteeboy

Nous vivons à Cornielle où le rythme de vie si lent de toute façon!
Ce serait un dernier recours mais je pense que les Anglais ont beaucoup à apprendre de la France y compris leur système de la location des logements.

Nourriture superbe, de beaux surf, et j'aime la façon dont ils à ricaner les Américains!

When I say "speak" the lingo, I don't mean "can write" it!

The Chief

I was saying it tongue in cheek - check the smiley!

have you anything remotely constructive to say on this topic?

Timwinner

iTrader: (3)

haha... ok ok I meant "Kids in the hall" and "trailer park boys"..... and Stiff upper lip......
But I stand by the lazy thing

The Chief

Crikey i'm ashamed.

Its bad when a lot of English cant speak another language and i'm one of them

SiPie

edited for accuracy

dpb

France is still a socialist country! unlike Britain ( Until Sarcosy gets going anyway) + of course theyll accept the bnefits of the eu whilst flouting every directorate foisted upon them

Torquemada

Gotta say, I wouldn't mind moving somewhere nice in France too but defo not anywhere near the arsey Parisiens

Matteeboy

Unlike us morally superior "spend now, don't bother paying later" Brits?!!

Timwinner

iTrader: (3)

I will admit there sense of humor about America was quiet a sweet quality. I guess your right, living in the west country it would'nt be a massive change to move down that way.
Best thing is super cheap wine!!!!

The Chief

The thing is i think it will affect most countries to a degree but europe and the USA will really cop for it.

Torquemada

Your French is a damned sight better than mine though!!!! I'm crap at writing it but I can just about get along understanding it when written or spoken (depending on how fast they speak!!)

Matteeboy

Torque - same here. I'm most "fluent" after a wine or two. Then I take it too far and descend into a gibbering mess.

Torquemada

Timwinner

iTrader: (3)

If I drink enough wine I am convinced I am fluent in Polish too... Just ask the guy that lives down the lane, He hides if he see's me on my way back from the put.

Tim "Antonin.. ghtoroski jfjhtthski helloski im ski well drunkski"

Antonin "Tim please go away you cannot speak Polish and you frighten my children"

The Chief

I can say Bonjour, and che voudres un biere and de frites.

Is that right?

Sorry chaps pathetic i know

Matteeboy

Despite knowing the ins and outs of French, I still need a bit of oiling up (with booze) to have total confidence and have a proper French chat.
Annoying because Mrs Matt knows a lot less but has no fear in speaking it at any time.

Matteeboy

Bonjour, je voudraus une biere and des frites (then s'il vous plait - to be polite!)

I think.

dpb

Im i wrong or is the collapse of sterling the important point .!
Nothing can be done about the housing market ( its overinflated full stop) , yet the government is hell bent on propping it up AND persuading people to buy *stuff* on the high-street.
Isnt the present mucking about just going to **** up the financial industry which is dominant in the prosperity of the place globally !