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mackem

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  1. It’s the old estate agent adage,location location location,places people want to live are more,places with not much going for them are less,but in general though the US has cheaper land,UK is crowded so far higher priced,better quality of life generally in the land of the free the home of the brave.
  2. Todays exchange rate that’s around $398,000
  3. Been down here twice,once with an official guide,once with a graffiti URBEX bloke,but I never saw the well,anyone looking for something a little different their next trip to Paris.......
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    Glass eels

    Local take-away f****d up your delivery again Walt?
  5. What method will you use?I have caught hundreds of sea trout as a kid but never on Rod and line,I always wanted to catch a couple legit.
  6. For a millisecond I thought you had a tsantsa,a shrunken head.A death chair is a good find.
  7. I know a kid,he is about 7 now,his mum is smart as,good degree,she schools him,I saw him at Christmas and he asked me my “Favourite arachnid” he is smart as a blade. My nephews daughter is getting online language lessons,she is 8? she is getting Thai lessons from an online Bangkok based tutor and for a kid living in London her tones are fantastic,due to extra tuition. You going to home school your son?
  8. It’s an idiomatic expression,not literal,it means he was a bloody good shot that’s how I heard it.
  9. Not just Europe,Romanian begging/theft gangs are popping up in Canada and the States,there’s a husband and wife distraction theft couple on YouTube,caught illegally in an American state somewhere,their young son of maybe 10 years old has a $30k? Rolex on his wrist.
  10. I just clicked on who the bloke is filming and shouting…………..
  11. I think you will enjoy it,Edwin Rist upon his release from prison finally got his golden flute and relocated to Germany becoming a professional flautist,dreams come true.
  12. I saw this guy interviewed on an American podcast,he looks like he works in Home depot or as a software engineer,like a British version of Mike Vining.
  13. Jabba the f***ing hutt has been eating more than f***ing pretzels
  14. If they hadn’t been actively recruiting from 3’rd world and developing countries the NHS would be up a creek without a paddle both now and a long time ahead,non Brits make up roughly 30% of nurses and 35% of doctors,Brit doctors graduate they want the lifestyle of Australia or the money in the states.
  15. My point is your original choice of word didn’t fit,you said UK stole healthcare staff,I said the UK doesn’t steal them,the UK offers a better work package than their home countries,no stealing,it’s incentivisation.
  16. mackem

    Reform

    It’s f***ing Brick Tops twin sister
  17. My mother thankfully died in a care home you have gone from stealing to importing,incentivising is a better choice.
  18. That’s true,when I was a kid I remember someone I knew going to Germany to work,it was a big deal back then,now it’s nothing,digital-nomads moving around.
  19. I used to live in the Philippines,oversubscribed university course is nursing,families will sell land,get up to their eyeballs in debt to get a kid onto a nursing course as the kid can work and live abroad and make a good life,education is currency.Australia and New Zealand were recruiting doctors in the UK a few years back,in the past year I know three Canadian nurses who have went south of the border for a great salary and standard of living,people have always moved around for better money be it moving around the city,country or world.
  20. There’s currently 1652 NHS vacancies for doctors in the NHS,my son put the hard work in,I paid every single penny of his tuition,no student loans whatsoever,have the states nicked him?
  21. That’s fine,you dont understand the brain-drain isn’t theft,it’s entirely voluntary.
  22. No one steals NHS staff from abroad mate,that's a fact,my lady came to the UK just for a year to work,they are recruited,stealing the staff is a bit of an odd way to describe it,my Son and Daughter-in-law are in healthcare and moved to the states,my lady has nieces who did the same,recruited is the word,better money and quality of life.
  23. Change of direction by the government,thin end of the wedge. Asylum-seeking doctors, nurses and other health professionals granted right to work WWW.NHSEMPLOYERS.ORG The Home Office has announced a change to the immigration rules that will reinstate the right to work for...
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    Reform

    Nigel is off to the promised land.
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