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Jan. 6 (Telegraph) -- Britain’s has fallen to 25th position on a list of best places in the world to live.
Our poor climate, soaring unemployment and congested roads means we are now ranked behind countries such as the Czech Republic and Lithuania. It means even former Communist countries where unemployment is still rife are considered better places to live.
The new ranking puts Britain five places lower than a year ago, when we stood in 20th position, according to The Quality of Life Index, produced by International Living Magazine. The index has ranked countries in 10 categories - Cost of Living, Culture and Leisure, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Health, Infrastructure, Safety and Risk, and Climate.
For the fifth year in a row France beat 200 countries in the annual three-decades-old International Living magazine Quality of Life Index.
The rankings are: 1 France; 2 Australia; 3 Switzerland; 4 Germany; 5 New Zealand; 6 Luxembourg; 7 USA; 8 Belgium; 9 Canada; 10 Italy; 11 Netherlands; 12 Norway; 13 Austria; 14 Liechtenstein; 15 Malta; 16 Denmark; 17 Spain; 18 Finland; 19 Uruguay; 20 Hungary; 21 Portugal; 22 Lithuania; 23 Andorra; 24 Czech Rep; 25 UK.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/6943343/Britains-quality-of-life-worse-than-former-Communist-countries.html
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Big J
Bicmc
...alot of big guys over there ::)
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Big J
Bicmc
...alot of big guys over there ::)
Yeah we like to use "big" in our usernames over here.
I personally don't believe that list - if it were true then why are guys like Sevastase always trying to break out of Romania?
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Norway is expensive as FUCKIand Denmark??! and no sweden? wtf lol. Denmark sucks lol
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Norway is expensive as FUCKIand Denmark??! and no sweden? wtf lol. Denmark sucks lol
I was on Expedia yesterday looking for a short break in Stockholm for next month - it's like £400 for three nights in an average hotel - I thought fuck that (I'm not one of Getbig's millionaires).
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Jan. 6 (Telegraph) -- Britain’s has fallen to 25th position on a list of best places in the world to live.
Our poor climate, soaring unemployment and congested roads means we are now ranked behind countries such as the Czech Republic and Lithuania. It means even former Communist countries where unemployment is still rife are considered better places to live.
The new ranking puts Britain five places lower than a year ago, when we stood in 20th position, according to The Quality of Life Index, produced by International Living Magazine. The index has ranked countries in 10 categories - Cost of Living, Culture and Leisure, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Health, Infrastructure, Safety and Risk, and Climate.
For the fifth year in a row France beat 200 countries in the annual three-decades-old International Living magazine Quality of Life Index.
The rankings are: 1 France; 2 Australia; 3 Switzerland; 4 Germany; 5 New Zealand; 6 Luxembourg; 7 USA; 8 Belgium; 9 Canada; 10 Italy; 11 Netherlands; 12 Norway; 13 Austria; 14 Liechtenstein; 15 Malta; 16 Denmark; 17 Spain; 18 Finland; 19 Uruguay; 20 Hungary; 21 Portugal; 22 Lithuania; 23 Andorra; 24 Czech Rep; 25 UK.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/6943343/Britains-quality-of-life-worse-than-former-Communist-countries.html
Seen that the ruling government is pretty much a communist party, that would make sense. Thats what 13 years of the labour party will do to a country. Sadly it wont be long before the US drops way down the list.
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How can France beat Australia?!
France is way to french to be no.1
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I think this dropped us aussies down to number 2...
AN Australian city has the unenviable reputation as the world capital for broken jaws, with alarming casualty statistics for drunken violence.
Oral and maxillofacial surgeon Mahiban Thomas told the Northern Territory News that Royal Darwin Hospital saw more patients with broken jaws than any other capital.
He said booze was a main factor for most injuries.
"Royal Darwin Hospital treats 350 broken jaws a year, putting the rate at 17 per 10,000 population, which is well above anywhere else in the world," he said.
"The injuries are mostly sustained outside pubs and clubs in the city centre Thursday and Friday nights.
"Only 12 per cent of trauma patients have not been a victim of an alcohol-related assault."
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Yeah, but the NT is filled with abo's, so what do you expect?
I think our racism towards curry munchers bought us back up to no.2
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Yeah, but the NT is filled with abo's, so what do you expect?
I think our racism towards curry munchers bought us back up to no.2
looks like that one that got killed and burned in griffith was done in by other indians though which will wreck the propaganda...
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Norway is expensive as FUCKIand Denmark??! and no sweden? wtf lol. Denmark sucks lol
Being a Dane and being a student, I think it is great. But in 5 years time when I am hopefully a GetBig millionaire there is no way in hell that I am paying 63% in top tax. Fucking socialist country. :(
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When you smell that bad, it's only natural to assume that eventually we will start bashing you.....
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Being a Dane and being a student, I think it is great. But in 5 years time when I am hopefully a GetBig millionaire there is no way in hell that I am paying 63% in top tax. Fucking socialist country. :(
Almost choked to death in the train station in Köpenhamn lol
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France, N°1? Shit, I've lived here for more than 30 years and one thing I can tell you is that it's turning into a fuckin' nightmare.
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That list is obviously wrong, no Sweden in top 25...
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That list is obviously wrong, no Sweden in top 25...
That's no mistake. They're waiting for "Swede" to leave and they'll break directly the top three.
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The UK is a wonderful place with its history and architecture but they have a real problem with immigration and taxation is very high.
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Big J
Bicmc
...alot of big guys over there ::)
Ye, true dat, how silly
France #1? they have huge immigrant problems.
Every frenchmen look like an arab.
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Yeah we like to use "big" in our usernames over here.
I personally don't believe that list - if it were true then why are guys like Sevastase always trying to break out of Romania?
Actually I'm just busting chops.Ive always found English people to be cool with a good sense of humor 8)
....now their teeth is a whole different story :D
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Brits dont like getbig, just look at the stats. They are too civilized for this place.
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Remove all the Muslim jihadist immigrants who don't hold jobs, leech off the state and preach nothing but violence all day and the UK will be a better place.
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Yes Maosit Commie Barack and company are trying to turn this place into an absolute shithole all while trying to get their lawyer campaign supporters rich. What kind of fag shit is this with putting terrorists through the civilian court system? Not allowing waterboarding etc to extract info from terrorists? Fuck pro pedofile anti American Barack and the pos lawyers he is trying to enrich.
A multi-sentence post from BDB? :o
Presidential meltdown. ;D
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Been to London quite a few times and always loved it.......but the influx of muslims is leading to the downfall of the UK. I noticed it was much worse from the mid 90s to the mid 2000's.....filth.
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Looks so that Hungary beated UK. What means, this list is bullshit. I was in UK and much better. If they count in hot ladies too, then maybe its still correct.
I've lived in Austria for 3 years and the coldest place on the earth. Not the weather, the people.
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Only 3 items worth mentioning
from Mud Isle.
Holland & Holland double's
Top Gear
Sienna Miller
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Ireland and England are producing a next generation of absolute retards that have been given everything for nothing and have no work ethic or sense of how the real world operates
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Ireland and England are producing a next generation of absolute retards that have been given everything for nothing and have no work ethic or sense of how the real world operates
You can say the same for France. You see 15 year old kids bitching abour their "future" retirement pensions, saying they're not ready to work more than their parents did, etc.....As if the world had to adjust to them and not the other way around.
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Ireland and England are producing a next generation of absolute retards that have been given everything for nothing and have no work ethic or sense of how the real world operates
It's not nice to talk about swede like that.
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You can say the same for France. You see 15 year old kids bitching abour their "future" retirement pensions, saying they're not ready to work more than their parents did, etc.....As if the world had to adjust to them and not the other way around.
Over here they dont work
The social welfare system here is sickening
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Ireland and England are producing a next generation of absolute retards that have been given everything for nothing and have no work ethic or sense of how the real world operates
In more countries than just those two, big guy.
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Over here they dont work
The social welfare system here is sickening
Same here. they've been trying for years to find a way to put people back to work but they don't want to change the wellfare system. For lots of people, going back to work would mean getting less money.
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Ireland and England are producing a next generation of absolute retards that have been given everything for nothing and have no work ethic or sense of how the real world operates
Summed up perfectly, add to the fact that not only do they have no work ethic or sense of how the real world operate they worship at the holy grails of x-factor and mcdonalds and have no moral or social values.
First class ticket to a nightmare "civlisation".
For a number of years I have predicted the Uk will become the first slum of europe. France will follow shortly as 50 percent of their under 30 population arent even French.
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britain is still britain up in the cold north east where im from,,, but im truely sickend whenever i travel south and see my white country going to shit......
as a few have said, the 3rd generation dole scum should all be neauterd, or have there offspring downd at birth, fuckn parrisites.. there truly is no hope for a massive chunk of the population
as for the labour party being socialists.... fuck off, theres no difference between them n tories, they no longer speak or represent the working classes of this country
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britain is still britain up in the cold north east where im from,,, but im truely sickend whenever i travel south and see my white country going to shit......
as a few have said, the 3rd generation dole scum should all be neauterd, or have there offspring downd at birth, fuckn parrisites.. there truly is no hope for a massive chunk of the population
as for the labour party being socialists.... fuck off, theres no difference between them n tories, they no longer speak or represent the working classes of this country
labour are communists. I'd agree that neither labour nor the cons represent any british citizen. However I would say although the cons fucked up our industry, 30,000 immigrants a year versus 300,000 thousand is preferable to labour.
I liked you comment about going down south. I unfortunately now live down south, but its the same thing for me, when i go into london, feel physically sick just witnessing the difference. I used to live in east london for a while never again, like being transported into a third world country.
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Much of Irelands latest economic problems have been caused by mass 3rd world immigration and the social welfare system here.
Working people here,or people who have worked all their lives and are now made jobless have it much harder then scum who signed on the dole as soon as they left school.
Free dole,medical card,housing allowance they get
They have no incentive to work but yet still think they deserve the best of everything
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Norway is expensive as FUCKIand Denmark??! and no sweden? wtf lol. Denmark sucks lol
Sweden was only well off while their government managed to cover up the illegal weapon sale to restricted countries, through Bofors weapon manufacturing. Now a day no one wants their fighter Jets, and their whole car industry collapsed and died a few weeks ago.
Norway got oil, enough said.
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[quote author=Okami link=topic=314165.msg4488317#msg4488317 date=1263415070
Working people here,or people who have worked all their lives and are now made jobless have it much harder then scum who signed on the dole as soon as they left school.
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thats what gets my back up the most,,,a few yr back, me poor dad, whos worked his whole life is hounded after a few weeks off work, doles on his back all the time... where as as the local scum can seem to breeze through life unafected, spending there whole time in the bookies or in the pub,, it fucking amazes me.. its like a sick joke.. add to that the growing number of foreigners it just has you banging your head against the wall
the foreigners that actualy do work, are just used to drive our wages down too... and people wonder why i ripped my union card up ages ago
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[quote author=Okami link=topic=314165.msg4488317#msg4488317 date=1263415070
Working people here,or people who have worked all their lives and are now made jobless have it much harder then scum who signed on the dole as soon as they left school.
thats what gets my back up the most,,,a few yr back, me poor dad, whos worked his whole life is hounded after a few weeks off work, doles on his back all the time... where as as the local scum can seem to breeze through life unafected, spending there whole time in the bookies or in the pub,, it fucking amazes me.. its like a sick joke.. add to that the growing number of foreigners it just has you banging your head against the wall
the foreigners that actualy do work, are just used to drive our wages down too... and people wonder why i ripped my union card up ages ago
foreigners that don't work are leeches
foreigners that do work drive wages down
foreigners that do work take jobs from native population...
there is no solution? multiculturalism will always = fail?
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I don't understand!!!! Why don't you fuckers vote on the far right parties to end up with shit that is destroying europe????? Honestly I just don't fucking get it!!!!! Beleive it or not the only pollitical prisioner in Portugal is a far right activis, one of the mos respected in europe. His name is Mário Machado. We need to support this guy, not arrest him!!!
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I liked you comment about going down south. I unfortunately now live down south, but its the same thing for me, when i go into london, feel physically sick just witnessing the difference. I used to live in east london for a while never again, like being transported into a third world country.
Wembley high street
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Wembley high street
I saw that before,im a member of the BNP,albeit im Irish,living in Ireland
I see us going the same way as London or Birmingham here regarding 3rd world colonisation of our cities so I must find out as much about combating it as possible
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Just don`t leave your house unattended Okami.
The Romanians at No 76: We'll go if you pay us £2,000, say squatters
The privet hedge has seen better days and the paint is flaking a bit from a window at the back, but it's warm as toast inside number 76 St Margaret's Road.
In the lounge the kids are playing and everyone is watching a Home Alone DVD, dubbed into the family's native Romanian.
What a perfect domestic scene, except for one small detail - it's not their house.
Uninvited guests: Luminita Miclescu and Mihaela Vaduva outside the property
The seven or eight members of two Roma gipsy families moved in over Christmas during a lull in works to transform the £285,000 Victorian mid-terrace into a 'dream home' for Julian and Samantha Mosedale and their three sons.
When the Mosedales, who were living elsewhere during the building works, asked the uninvited new occupants to leave they refused.
And even when Mr Mosedale turned up with a possession order to reclaim his property yesterday, the families demanded compensation for the £2,000 they claim to have paid to an unnamed man they claim posed as the landlord.
But they were finally compelled to leave by the court order that took Mr Mosedale two weeks to secure.
Young mother Luminita Miclescu stood in the snow outside (his) doorstep and declared: 'We came to England for help. This is how England helps us!'
Earlier, Luminita, breast-feeding her five-month-old son, had invited me into the soon-to-be-vacated home to hear her tale of woe.
Mihaela Vaduva (L) and Luminita Miclescu make themselves at home
Perhaps it would be unfair to describe it as incredible, but it might have needed more pinches of salt than they were spreading outside on the cold suburban street in Tottenham, North London.
Joined by her cousin Mihaela Vaduva and four lively toddlers, the women told how their husbands had seen a handwritten note on the gate of No 76 advertising it for sale.
Having just sold their home in Rosiori, near Bucharest, for just 3,000 euros, they said, they couldn't afford to buy the house.
But they rang the number on the sign and arranged to meet 'a black man who said he was the landlord' in the local McDonald's.
There, they said, the man took £300 deposit, £300 for a week's advance rent, and £1,400 for a security they didn't quite understand.
Then he deleted his number from their mobile phones and said any future business should be conducted in the same McDonald's.
Evicted: The family moving out yesterday
Time to go: Police arrived at the address to evict the families yesterday
He gave them a 'tenancy agreement' that bore his name, Joseph Winset, an East London address and the rental terms. No clues for guessing what happened next.
'We never saw him again', said Luminita. 'We tried to find him but we couldn't trace him.'
Speaking through an interpreter - and occasionally to each other in their own Roma language - the women said they were 'really upset' and added: 'We were tricked.'
They had no money, they said, but had applied 'for all the benefits we are entitled to'.
Luminita added: 'We were really shocked when the other man [Mr Mosedale] turned up. I think he was quite shocked too. We tried to explain but he couldn't understand us and we couldn't understand him. The other problem was we could not be sure it was his house.'
Possesions: Luminita Miclescu wheels sleeping bags and belongings from the Mosedale's home
So would they leave? 'Where can we go?' said Mihaela. 'How can we be put on the street with all these children? If this is really his house he should pay. If he wants his house back, he should pay us that money back.'
Warming herself by a four-bar electric heater (with Mr Mosedale paying the bills) Luminita said: 'We realise now that the black man was not the real owner but I don't think it is fair to make us homeless.'
Homeless, that is, apart from the house down the road. Before the police arrived yesterday, the two husbands disappeared into another house about 100 yards away with an estate agent's board outside.
Throughout the day, the women carried their five children (plus some kitchen equipment and one of their two TVs) down the street.
The Mosedales: Julian, Samantha and sons (from left) Finn, Jake and Toby
But what of the elusive Mr Winset and his tenancy agreement?
A Romanian official working in the Court Service told me: 'You can guarantee he doesn't exist. These so-called agreements are becoming quite common - squatters can flash them at anyone who asks and claim they have a legal contract.'
Last night the family turned down a council offer to have their 'housing needs' assessed - and the women left carrying blankets and possessions. Luminita made a one-finger gesture to photographers and told our interpreter they were 'going to stay with relatives'.
The Mosedales, both 45, said they were 'greatly relieved' and bore the families no ill feeling. But Mrs Mosedale added: 'We have been quite shocked by it all, and by how squatting laws make it so difficult for house owners to do anything about it. I just hope someone takes notice of what has happened and the law changes in future.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242998/The-Romanians-No-76-Well-pay-2-000-say-squatters-finally-evicted.html#ixzz0caJehCnI
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If I was me,which I am,I would kill them all,children included
If I was the english government I would send them back to Romania
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I used to live in Harlesden. I left Harlesden.
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I first heard the story of the squatters on the radio yesterday morning,and the owner of the house said he had been having renovations done,so the elctricity was on for the workmen to use their power tools.When the squatters moved in he contacted the electricity board and told them to dis-connect,but they said they couldn`t,it would breach their human rights. :o
I`d do the same thing as you mate,never mind getting the police,lawyers and bailiffs involved.Just introduce them to a baseball bat.
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I used to live in Harlesden. I left Harlesden.
I did quite a few drilling jobs in places around Heathrow and had to stop in Hayes,how close to Harlesden is it.
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Just don`t leave your house unattended Okami.
jesus fucking christ!!!!! this is ridiculous
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I did quite a few drilling jobs in places around Heathrow and had to stop in Hayes,how close to Harlesden is it.
I don't know Hayes but I was 2 stops south of Wembley on the Bakerloo line. This was back in 98,99. I enjoyed my time in the city but even then we used to remark how absurd it was that you couldn't find an Englishman in London. Lived in Queens Park too, just down the road from Cat Stevens/ Steven Demetre Georgiou/ Yusuf Islam and across the street from an Islam only school that he funded.
The guys I worked with were from Dartford & despised immigrants. I thought they were a little over the top but I have to admit it would be tough to see your country or home town basically flooded by a tsunami of immigrants, particularly when they self-segregate and exclude natives. The yanks are in a similar boat with South/Central Americans. I can see stepping back one day and asking: Hey, why did we let all these people in here? What's the benefit?
It's my (perhaps mistaken) understanding that a lot of immigrants got grandfathered in under some antiquated legislation whereby anyone who was related by so much as a drop of blood to a citizen of the Crown or a spouse of a citizen was basically in. So you'd have some soldier in India get married and 2000 distant cousins would get on a boat, lol.
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I don't know Hayes but I was 2 stops south of Wembley on the Bakerloo line. This was back in 98,99. I enjoyed my time in the city but even then we used to remark how absurd it was that you couldn't find an Englishman in London. Lived in Queens Park too, just down the road from Cat Stevens/ Steven Demetre Georgiou/ Yusuf Islam and across the street from an Islam only school that he funded.
The guys I worked with were from Dartford & despised immigrants. I thought they were a little over the top but I have to admit it would be tough to see your country or home town basically flooded by a tsunami of immigrants, particularly when they self-segregate and exclude natives. The yanks are in a similar boat with South/Central Americans. I can see stepping back one day and asking: Hey, why did we let all these people in here? What's the benefit?
It's my (perhaps mistaken) understanding that a lot of immigrants got grandfathered in under some antiquated legislation whereby anyone who was related by so much as a drop of blood to a citizen of the Crown or a spouse of a citizen was basically in. So you'd have some soldier in India get married and 2000 distant cousins would get on a boat, lol.
Guys,any country whose newspapers front pages show the latest goings on in Peter Andre or Jordans or Beckhams life are doomed to suffer
The youth and people in their twenties are so retarded from living their lives looking at these non-celebrities on the news,on tv and in the papers
The newspapers are afraid to tellthe real news,news that affects you and me,like poor health services caused by the amount of spongers abusing free healthcare,and the government paying billions into the pockets of do-nothing 3rd world immigrants via housing payments and dole
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Australia is the bees knees
beaches, sand and surf....sunshine, rainforest, desert, bush.....
f'cks all over shitty Europe....
Only California comes close and that was 40 years ago
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Guys,any country whose newspapers front pages show the latest goings on in Peter Andre or Jordans or Beckhams life are doomed to suffer
The youth and people in their twenties are so retarded from living their lives looking at these non-celebrities on the news,on tv and in the papers
The newspapers are afraid to tellthe real news,news that affects you and me,like poor health services caused by the amount of spongers abusing free healthcare,and the government paying billions into the pockets of do-nothing 3rd world immigrants via housing payments and dole
This is the truest quote i have read on here in a long time. Im from Liverpool, its not as bad up here, but it is spreading - slowly.
The 'i wanna be a celebrity for doing nothing or marry a footballer' mindset of the youth, particularly girls, is positively scary.
Unfortunately, by the time one of these piss ant governments realises it has gone too far, it will be too late. Im just glad i wont be around here in another 50 years to see it in all its full blown horror !! :-\
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This is the truest quote i have read on here in a long time. Im from Liverpool, its not as bad up here, but it is spreading - slowly.
The 'i wanna be a celebrity for doing nothing or marry a footballer' mindset of the youth, particularly girls, is positively scary.
Unfortunately, by the time one of these piss ant governments realises it has gone too far, it will be too late. Im just glad i wont be around here in another 50 years to see it in all its full blown horror !! :-\
at least you have the beatles?
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Is the whig party still around in England?
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at least you have the beatles?
:)
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Wembley high street
looks like bradford city centre :(
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I don't know Hayes but I was 2 stops south of Wembley on the Bakerloo line.
this is a Bakerloo line to Elephant and Castle....
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:D
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:D
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I think this dropped us aussies down to number 2...
AN Australian city has the unenviable reputation as the world capital for broken jaws, with alarming casualty statistics for drunken violence.
Nothing like having a drink n brawl with your buddies.
Just like Iowa :D
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same can be said of france, spain, italia, germany...
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same can be said of france, spain, italia, germany...
And austria, switzerland, scandinavia, holland, etc, etc, etc.....
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I don't know Hayes but I was 2 stops south of Wembley on the Bakerloo line. This was back in 98,99. I enjoyed my time in the city but even then we used to remark how absurd it was that you couldn't find an Englishman in London. Lived in Queens Park too, just down the road from Cat Stevens/ Steven Demetre Georgiou/ Yusuf Islam and across the street from an Islam only school that he funded.
The guys I worked with were from Dartford & despised immigrants. I thought they were a little over the top but I have to admit it would be tough to see your country or home town basically flooded by a tsunami of immigrants, particularly when they self-segregate and exclude natives. The yanks are in a similar boat with South/Central Americans. I can see stepping back one day and asking: Hey, why did we let all these people in here? What's the benefit?
It's my (perhaps mistaken) understanding that a lot of immigrants got grandfathered in under some antiquated legislation whereby anyone who was related by so much as a drop of blood to a citizen of the Crown or a spouse of a citizen was basically in. So you'd have some soldier in India get married and 2000 distant cousins would get on a boat, lol.
Hayes is a dump, massive asian population, drive through the streets and you wonder if your in a land fill site, litter everywhere. Rarely see a white face.
Obama wants to bring EU style socialist values to the US, along with mass immigration, proactive discrimination against whites and the introduction of welfare systems. Obama claims to have admired Tony Blair, do we need to say anything more....
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Australia is the bees knees
beaches, sand and surf....sunshine, rainforest, desert, bush.....
f'cks all over shitty Europe....
Only California comes close and that was 40 years ago
Do you live in Australia currently?? I heard since this rudd guy has come in he's opened up the doors and immgration and crime has shot up?
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TTT!!!
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Do you live in Australia currently?? I heard since this rudd guy has come in he's opened up the doors and immgration and crime has shot up?
Rudd is an imposter....a little shit of a left-wing man who couldn't shine the shoes of Labour
Party legends like Keating or Hawke.....this little runt rode the anti-liberal sentiment...thats all that happened
I appreciate the core concepts of left politics, but this f'king weasel needs to go...peice of shit he is....
can you tell I'm angry?
Yes, we have boat after boat of sri-lankan, indonesian and whoever else coming over.....the previous govt (i.e Liberals) gave a clear and concise message ---> come without a passport and we'll blow you out of the water....
soft Labour policies....every boat smuggler in the world knows it now.....
Australia is still a pristine country.....so young and beautiful compared to europe and even U.S.....but the immigration is growing....and let's be fair, these new migrants are on the avg. a lot dumber and lazier then the greek, italian, asian, maltese, serbs, croats, etc who came 3-4 decades before them.....they get on welfare and stay there....those lazy f'cks
and yes, I am from australia....
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Rudd is an imposter....a little shit of a left-wing man who couldn't shine the shoes of Labour
Party legends like Keating or Hawke.....this little runt rode the anti-liberal sentiment...thats all that happened
I appreciate the core concepts of left politics, but this f'king weasel needs to go...peice of shit he is....
can you tell I'm angry?
Yes, we have boat after boat of sri-lankan, indonesian and whoever else coming over.....the previous govt (i.e Liberals) gave a clear and concise message ---> come without a passport and we'll blow you out of the water....
soft Labour policies....every boat smuggler in the world knows it now.....
Australia is still a pristine country.....so young and beautiful compared to europe and even U.S.....but the immigration is growing....and let's be fair, these new migrants are on the avg. a lot dumber and lazier then the greek, italian, asian, maltese, serbs, croats, etc who came 3-4 decades before them.....they get on welfare and stay there....those lazy f'cks
and yes, I am from australia....
Thanks for the info, and yes I can tell your angry LOL!! Sounds like a real shame what Rudd is doing, very similar to all the other EU leaders policies.
I've been thinking I need to get over to Australia and have a look around, as currently I have enough points to migrate on a skilled workers visa, but recently keep hearing all these stories here about immgration and rising cost of living in Oz. Dont want to move from one mess to another one in the making.
I guess things are probably still ten years behind in terms of the damage thats been done to the country though.
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Rising for sure. My folks came for a visit and were astounded at what things cost in WA a few years ago. I'm retaining my US citizenship because the bubble will burst for The Lucky Country one of these days imo. I get the impression the economy is hanging on by its fingernails but people are carrying on as if everything is hunky dorey, just charging more for services to offset rising costs elsewhere, etc. It's got that 'could runaway at any moment' feel to it. A contractor would generally come to work for anywhere between $25-$35/hr five years ago. On Friday, a contractor told me he won't get out of bed for under $50/hr and tbh I can see where he's coming from. If not for Chinese mining investment WA would be a Mad Max zone. I wonder if a recent slump in housing costs is just the sea receding before the tsunami.
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Rising for sure. My folks came for a visit and were astounded at what things cost in WA a few years ago. I'm retaining my US citizenship because the bubble will burst for The Lucky Country one of these days imo. I get the impression the economy is hanging on by its fingernails but people are carrying on as if everything is hunky dorey, just charging more for services to offset rising costs elsewhere, etc. It's got that 'could runaway at any moment' feel to it. A contractor would generally come to work for anywhere between $25-$35/hr five years ago. On Friday, a contractor told me he won't get out of bed for under $50/hr and tbh I can see where he's coming from. If not for Chinese mining investment WA would be a Mad Max zone. I wonder if a recent slump in housing costs is just the sea receding before the tsunami.
Not good, reading some of the expat forums, Ive seen similar comments, its a real shame and quite frustrating. I've wanted to emigrate somewhere for a while, the US has proven to be next to impossible to get into, and looking at everywhere else, europe, australia, all seem to have the same problems. For some time Oz seemed to be one place that was unaffected by all teh bullshit, probably the reason why so many Brits move out there....and then Rudd came along >:(
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WA is not a good representation of the Aus economy.....those fuckers were blessed with one of the richest mineral deposits in the world....gold, iron ire, coal, off-shore gas etc....its everywhere....
now the thing is ---> they better make the most of it too, because in 20 years, when it all runs out or the entry-level into Africa becomes easier or too many ppl chasing the same shit, then they better be blessing they have something to fall back on.....cause they're fucked......WA is not truly a sustainable economy outside of mining...and because of the mining, everything is fucked up inflated....stay away from WA, unless your a miner or engineer chasing the dollars
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane are true cities in terms of broader economic opportunites.....finance, insurance, I.T., construction, hospitality, tourism.....