Parking Fees Getting Out Of Hand?

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

damn that song is funny HAHA!!

[jjskyline79]

You & I need to have a bit of a chat in coming months then - beers will be on me.

Handy to know something with first hand info to make sense of it

NP

A lot of what you "hear" is uter crap

i'm gob smacked by the things you think goes on and the uter crap we also get feed back to us in Britain about you guys

Did you no EVERY HOME that has a tv HAS to pay a licence at about $300 per year to the BBC if you want any more channels you would have to get SKY and pay a further $30 per month

If you want the sports channels as well you can add that again on top

so to have a TV with the sports channels to watch the footy or cricket your looking at near on a $1000 per year

[Priestley]

NP

A lot of what you "hear" is uter crap

i'm gob smacked by the things you think goes on and the uter crap we also get feed back to us in Britain about you guys

Did you no EVERY HOME that has a tv HAS to pay a licence at about $300 per year to the BBC if you want any more channels you would have to get SKY and pay a further $30 per month

If you want the sports channels as well you can add that again on top

so to have a TV with the sports channels to watch the footy or cricket your looking at near on a $1000 per year

You just reminded me of the Young Ones episode where the TV inspector is trying to catch them out, so they eat the TV

Edit: Found the clip -

Don't mention the congestion tax to too many people over here. It will get back to someone in the Melbourne council...

Edited March 9, 2010 by Priestley

[bluejeans]

ahahah good old young ones loved that show!

[atomaly]

NP

A lot of what you "hear" is uter crap

i'm gob smacked by the things you think goes on and the uter crap we also get feed back to us in Britain about you guys

Did you no EVERY HOME that has a tv HAS to pay a licence at about $300 per year to the BBC if you want any more channels you would have to get SKY and pay a further $30 per month

If you want the sports channels as well you can add that again on top

so to have a TV with the sports channels to watch the footy or cricket your looking at near on a $1000 per year

ahaha and i thought foxtel was bad enough!

[MRSAMO]

Try parking in England

EVERYWHERE charges you to park, unless you go out of town. infact on top of a road tax that is an average of $400 a year you also have to pay a congestion charge of $16 a day plus a toll charge or $2 per trip over the bridge and put one of the worlds most expensive petrol in it at $2.30 a litre

You could always go by train if you like but thats even more expensive and the service is shocking

There's a way to overcome parking, go to a Tesco, Sainsbury, B&Q or Asda store ;-)

UK is expensive but Tokyo was crazy, over $200 in tollways and passes to go from Chiba to the north part of Tokyo (Hakone) alone!

[MRSAMO]

NP

A lot of what you "hear" is uter crap

i'm gob smacked by the things you think goes on and the uter crap we also get feed back to us in Britain about you guys

Did you no EVERY HOME that has a tv HAS to pay a licence at about $300 per year to the BBC if you want any more channels you would have to get SKY and pay a further $30 per month

If you want the sports channels as well you can add that again on top

so to have a TV with the sports channels to watch the footy or cricket your looking at near on a $1000 per year

Sure its not that much? I never paid that much, most of my expenses came from rent which is really expensive.

But there's a few things that UK has Australia beat, Internet is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Australia and cheaper too.

And the cars, London has ballers all over the place.

[jjskyline79]

lol l lived there for 30 years dont no how long ago you come over or were over there but ALOT has changed in the last few years

If you just want a tv without sky yeah its cheaper only $300 p/y but if you want sky with sports package and econamy pack one of the cheapest deals like here

http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/sports/

Your looking at least $63 per month @ 1.75 exchange rate times 12 is $756 p/y thats over a grand and thats without paying for the box or getting ALL the sports channels thats another $400 on top for the box although there are deals that means you get them installed for free.

Internet is NOT that much better we are so far behind the rest of Europe its unreal funny enough they just released a report outlining the UK was in the last three of the 20 odd European countries they tested for speed reliability and cost

I'm sorry I have no idea what a baller is

[jjskyline79]

A few speed tests for you

http://www.dslreports.com/archive?c=au

http://www.dslreports.com/archive?c=uk

the uk is pritty poor really

Edited March 13, 2010 by jjskyline79

[MRSAMO]

I'm from there and I came back last year so pretty recent.

Looking at that link you gave me :

http://www.dslreports.com/archive?c=au

2767 769 domain: aanet.com.au

is still way slower than :

http://www.dslreports.com/archive?c=uk

4373 528 Demon Internet: UK based broadband provider

and since I'm a web developer I have hand on experiences on which is better, UK by a mile. They have more competitors for DSL and mobile services and would be cheaper too. Australia has Telstra, I pay $125 per month for the fastest but LIMITED plan they have and is still not as good as the £11 unlimited broadband at O2. Get a Sky plan with internet and it will still be cheaper than Bigpond+ Foxtel. Foxtel's minimum cost on a 12 month direct debit plan is $916. And I haven't even started on 3G. Lastly, UK will be implementing a giga-internet highway starting with the universities pretty soon. Fact is, internet is cheaper in UK, free wireless can be found in nearly every Maccas, libraries, public places and even along the Thames.

In Australia we get hard done by businesses and companies that are just SLOW.

[wokka wokka]

I Love the way people talk about how expensive the UK is, then focus on inner London. Therer's a reason why most of the UK avoid London like it's still got the plague, it's not worth the money (plus it's full of Londoners, who mostly refuse to even consider that any other place in the world could match up to London).

Yep, petrol costs a fair bit. It was a pound a litre when I left in 2000 ($2.50 at the echange rate then), and about 86 pence a litre back in May last year (just under$2.00 at the time).

TV licence doesn't just apply to TVs, also VCR/PVR etc, anything with a receiver. You used to be able to get a cheaper Black and White TV licence, which my dad tried to buy when we moved from Germany back to the UK (about 1990), and the old cheapskate was just going to use the B&W TV (Much to the disgust of the entitre family) since we were going to be moving in another 6 months anway. The TV licence dude came round 2 days after we's moved in to see if we had a licence, and sell us one if we didn't. Dad asks for a B&W one, bloke points out we have a VCR attached, thus we have to have a colour licence since we can record in colour and take the tape else where to watch the playback on a monitor. Was funny to watch the disbelief on dads face, at least it made him get a colour TV.

You do get a lot more channels for your pay TV money over there though, I was looking through the listing for something to watch at my sisters place, it took so long I had to start again looking at the next timeslot. Probably still not much more worth watching, just the same rubbish spread even thinner.

Brits come to Aus and want to stay, Aussies go to the UK, but mostly come home again. That should tell you all you need to know.