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You didn't like it, and came back
Id like to retire there... its too hot to work. I should have gone NZ... but we live and learn
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Too true, maybe Tasmania or the Snowy Mountains
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A nurse I met the other day was a Tasmanian, I told him of my regret not giving Tassie a go. I loved the place, it was to late for me as my mind was set that I wanted to come home.
I could retire to the Snowy. to remote if you needed to work.
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As The Pub Landlord said,
"28 hours of connecting flights to end up in Scotland? No thanks!"
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As The Pub Landlord said,
"28 hours of connecting flights to end up in Scotland? No thanks!"
Im sure the weather is better
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A work mate of mine in Port Kembla got a job on the hydro scheme in the snowies
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Yes very beautiful country but like a big Scotland without the thermal stuffAs The Pub Landlord said,
"28 hours of connecting flights to end up in Scotland? No thanks!"
Depends what you consider "better".
I like crisp winter days, for instance.
But only on Christmas cards nowadays
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Depends what you consider "better".
I like crisp winter days, for instance.
But only on Christmas cards nowadays
I do too but we don't get many. QLD winter was started cold crisp and sunny by afternoon it was 26 c.
Summer was too hot and sticky
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Bondi for Blackburn. Form an orderly queue please.
I lived on Bondi for nearly a year. Wasn't the best beach and is considered a bit a dump locally. But it was a great place for a single young man to live. Ive never considered Blackburn.
Was probably too popular for it's own good. Bondi that is, not Blackburn. Brother's been in late 80s and wasn't keen, preferred the quiter more off the beaten track places - coastal or inland.
The customer buying the goods pays more for it, with the cash going to the tax man.
So, to buy an EU built car you'll pay more. For someone in the EU to buy a car made with British parts or built here they'd pay more.
The effect is to reduce trade, so that internal suppliers are more affordable. So the EU will stop buying as much of our stuff. We will stop buying as much of theirs. But it's not automatically an equal trade, we buy more goods from Europe than they do from us. That means we will be paying more in tarrifs than the EU will (in absolute terms, and massively more per person).
Also even with tarrifs you've got to have a domestic manufacturer to replace the overseas one. Which is easy when you've got a huge internal market as you can adapt with little change. It's much harder when you're a little country.
So in short, how do tarrifs work? Thanks to brexit were going to pay more tax.
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As much as I thought.
Tariffs are not good for any one and it will be hard.
Ive always admired the Australians on how they adapt and make do. I was talking to a Pilipino nurse who was shocked on how much the NHS waste compared to the US and the Philippines.
So we have to adapt.
- I planned on buying a new van next year: With tariffs I'll hold off and keep my old van going.
- The Tax our government make in taxes from imports, can they then subsidise British business losing trade in the EU?
- I see so mush waste; maybe as a country we will learn to waste less and repair more.
- Ill start fitting British made boilers. and materials
- Drink South American Australian and British wine and not french.
- Drink British beers and not German.
