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From: lucasea on 12 Nov 2006 17:24 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:45576A9D.D2F7B931(a)hotmail.com... > > > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >You wouldn't get far on ?5263 over here for sure. >> >> >> >> I didn't say it was easy and one also has to give up a lot >> >> of middle class "attitudes" ;-). >> > >> >Around here you'd pay ~ ?3000 p.a. minimum just for >> >a very basic rented room ! >> >> In the US you can't plan on renting when you stop working. Part >> of way we live is to spend a part of our wages on a place to live >> that will become yours after a few years. That way you can >> eliminate paying rent as part of your living expense. > > Round here a small flat will cost ?130,000 ! That's the entry price for > your own > place. In fairness, the US real estate market is not quite as pricy. In many places, you can buy a low-end condo or minimal single-family home for well under $100,000. That's not the case in most big cities, but rural areas tend to be a lot less expensive. > There is *no way* you can buy that easily even on an average wage for a > single > person. And most espcially on *minimum* wage. Eric Lucas
From: lucasea on 12 Nov 2006 17:31 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:45576E77.F9E31736(a)hotmail.com... > > > T Wake wrote: > >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote >> > >> > I couldn't hire for any price. >> >> Yet under the NHS in the UK, my GP regularly makes house calls to his >> patients. Amazing isn't it. > > BAH might also be interested to know about NHS Direct for 'out of hours' > needs. > I wonder if there's any US equivalent. Actually, there are. One of the more recent problems with the current US system is that you often cannot get into your PCP (GP I think is your term) for at least a few days, often a few weeks. Within the last 15 years or so, there have sprung up all sorts of "urgent care" places, for things that need some sort of immediate attention (prescription painkillers, temporary splints for broken bones and/or sprains, stitches for all but the most major cuts, antibiotics for sinus infections, that sort of thing) but don't warrant a visit to the emergency room, which is very expensive. They're often not open 24/7, so there are some times when, if you can't wait until the next morning, you're just going to have to suck it up and go to the emergency room. Eric Lucas
From: lucasea on 12 Nov 2006 17:35 "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message news:p6adnad2WqzF7crYRVnyiQ(a)pipex.net... > I would love to see someone on $200 per week even affording food bills let > alone anything else. Did you mean $200/month? The missus and I eat quite well on $200/week, and that even involves eating out one or two nights a week. That said, that's only food. Eric Lucas
From: lucasea on 12 Nov 2006 17:42 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4557710E.7E29264B(a)hotmail.com... > > > "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: > >> Ben Ben Newsam wrote: >> > On Sun, 12 Nov 06 12:47:09 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> > >> > >Didn't you ever wonder where your sewer people put all of that >> > >water that get flushed and put down the drains of your sinks, >> > >baths, and showers? >> > >> > No, because I know exactly what happens to it. It goes to the sewage >> > treatment works at Tinsley. >> >> And ends up as bottled water in France? ;-) > > You have some very odd ideas. > > The only company I know of that made a bottled water of 'dubious origin' > was the > Coca-Cola company who used tap water. It's actually pretty widely known in this country that most bottled waters, even those that call themselves "spring water" are simply tap water in a fancy package. A few actually do bother to get spring water, but it's not very common. I think he might be conflating the fact in my previous sentence, with the widely reported scandal of benzene in Perrier about 10 - 15 years ago. To my knowledge, Perrier does indeed sell spring water...not that I think that's any great shakes--I think a lot of the bottled waters taste like Elmer's Glue. I just buy a bottle once in a very long while, then keep refilling it from the tap because it's a convenient container to carry water around with me as I go about my job. Eric Lucas
From: Eeyore on 12 Nov 2006 17:46
lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:45575321.EDAD176C(a)hotmail.com... > > > > > > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> >> My folks, > >> >> >> who will not see 80 again, dug a dry well by hand in the > >> >> >> summer of 2005. > >> >> > > >> >> >Dare I ask why ? > >> >> > >> >> They needed one > >> > > >> >Was there a problem with their water supply ? > >> > >> Sorry. I should have explained. If you flush a toilet > >> there's the solids and paper and lots and lots of water. > >> A septic tank will fill up twice a year if the water > >> isn't allowed to leak out. A dry well, which is an empty > >> hole in the ground, lined by cement blocks, takes water overflows > >> and allows the excess water to seep into the ground. So the > >> water is recycled and the septic tank only has to be cleaned > >> once every n years depending on the number of people filling it. > > > > Understood. > > > > > >> >> and nobody in the business made them anymore. > >> >> For some strange reason, leach fields are the craze. > >> > > >> >I'm not familiar with this 'leach fields' thing. > >> > >> That's another way to get rid of excess water and put > >> it back into your water table. > >> > >> Didn't you ever wonder where your sewer people put all of that > >> water that get flushed and put down the drains of your sinks, > >> baths, and showers? > > > > Ultimately the River Thames - and then the sea. > > Exactly how it happens in the US. Ever wonder why most (all?) water > treatment plants are adjacent to either a river, lake, or some other large > body of water? What do they do in Las Vegas or Phoenix ? Graham |