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Britain's looking dodgy on Inequality and Prisoners (not a shock in either case).
So, Norway or Canada it is!
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lsandersonandrewduckerBritain's looking dodgy on Inequality and Prisoners (not a shock in either case).
So, Norway or Canada it is!
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Date: 2011-02-19 11:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-19 11:48 am (UTC)Austrialia has always looked wonderful, to tell the truth. But as an arachnophobe I'm very wary of anywhere that's filled with the buggers. I'd rather share my country with polar bears, vicious killers though they are.
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Date: 2011-02-20 06:36 am (UTC)It's the fires that put me off. A country that catches alight every year or so kinda worries me.
It is very attractive to New Zealanders though, due to their wages being a lot higher and that we are able to go there and get a job without any papers needing to be filled in. (We've sort of a free trade agreement.)
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Date: 2011-02-20 11:41 am (UTC)My NZ Friend says that she picks the UK:
http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2336632.html?thread=16856184#t16856184
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Date: 2011-02-20 12:36 pm (UTC)Your NZ friend is right. Most every developed, English-speaking country is better than here, income and prices wise. We're a small population that depends to a large extent on exports, and the exchange rate's not been good for exports for quite a while. And I don't see it improving anytime soon.
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Date: 2011-02-19 10:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-19 12:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-19 12:23 pm (UTC)I'd rather have a nice ocean between me and them.
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Date: 2011-02-19 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-20 01:16 am (UTC)Food prices in supermarkets here are, in general, shockingly high compared to the UK. Partly the exchange rate, partly the floods (they seem to import very little, so local conditions matter a LOT). eg.
Peppers a $8(£5.36) a kilo,
Bananas (UK price 88p/kilo) at $7 (£4.69) [and that is not yet reflecting that 80% of the crop is wrecked, they are expected to hit $14].
Lettuces and cucumbers UK price(about £1 or 80p) $4 (£2.68) each...
Frozen generic white fish, UK price £2, Aussie price $10 (6.70).
Meat and dairy are about comparable to the UK.
Rents/house prices in Sydney area are comparable to London.
Petrol same in $ as we pay in £.
I definitely live more cheaply in the UK than I could here.
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Date: 2011-02-20 01:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-20 11:42 am (UTC)Australia's off the list!
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Date: 2011-02-19 12:44 pm (UTC)And slightly surprised to see that Food Insecurity and Income Inequality didn't always correlate: what's going on with South Korea and Italy?
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Date: 2011-02-19 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-19 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-19 05:55 pm (UTC)It's been an interesting trip back to realise at the moment we are better off in the UK.
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Date: 2011-02-19 06:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-19 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-20 11:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-20 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-20 07:17 pm (UTC)The problem with comparisons is that everyone I know in Edinburgh lives in flats, and you don't really get flat sales in England (because the law is different).
But I can well believe that the centre of Cambridge is more expensive than most of Edinburgh.
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Date: 2011-02-20 05:30 am (UTC)Ekatarina, out on the West Coast and loving it
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Date: 2011-02-20 11:44 am (UTC)