What's Minimum Wage in England?
You read the title.
I guess it isn't much for discussion, though, is it...
Also, then, uh, what do you think about how expensive England seems to be to me.
I think things are expensive. Pounds are used like dollars, making everything about 1 and 3/4 times the price of everything I buy. Is it hard to make a living there?
Or would it be wise to start a business there, make a fair amount of money, and then change it to dollars in America, thus nearly doubling my net worth?
I recently went to Hong Kong island which used to be a British Colony and things seemed pretty cheap...
Minimum wage in England is 5.05 pounds an hour...I think
Last edited by Siegfried; 01-10-2007 at 05:21 AM. Reason: Way off base
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English people don't use real monies anyway.
You should see house prices compared to those in America. It's made me seriously think about moving to the US when I want to buy a place of my own. I also find it amusing, well, I say amusing but I mean infuriating, that we have to wait for months more for games (come on, just give us the US version. Sod the French. They should just give up on their stupid language) and consoles and they end up costing much more, if they even get released here at all.
It's not all bad, though! We have free healthcare, football, fish 'n' chips, Terry Wogan and more Cadbury's than you can shake a Twirl at. Oh, and American beer = LOL.
On a somewhat related note, I haven't changed my dollars from a recent trip to the US back to pounds yet, because the dollar's value is so low right now. I think a pound is worth something like 1.93 dollars.
Yeah, minimum wage is like £5.05 I think. And yeah,here is way expensive. When I import US videogames, even with shipping costs it works out less than buying them here, half the time. Customs costs to increase the price, but there's ways around it sometimes. Because import tarriffs between two of the most closely-linked economies/cultures/nations on Earth is gay.
And yeah pretty much everything Psy said, though I can't say I care about our sports or food. Football (REAL football, as in the one that barely uses feet and is played by trucks) + Sbarro's = yes.
We should either apply for statehood or work out a common citizenship deal. Then again, if Churchill said that was a good idea 60 years ago and it's still not happened... =/
In short: Things are retardedly expensive!
I am pretty sure UK minimum wage is higher that £5.05. More like £5.30-something.
And yes, house prices are terrible.
Pretty much everything I saw in Birmingham looks like it costs the same. They have the same numbers for prices. The problem is that the pound is twice as much as the dollar. $1.93, like Psy said.
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its £5.35 ( http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/nmw/ ) [equiv to $10.38)
house prices are indeed terrible but the beer is better, the football is better and we have what's left of the NHS
average uk house price = £184,924 ($359,010)
average Us house price = £136,285 ($264,540)
Last edited by blim; 01-10-2007 at 12:57 PM.
"*£5.35 per hour for workers aged 22 years and older
*A development rate of £4.45 per hour for workers aged 18-21 inclusive
*£3.30 per hour for all workers under the age of 18, who are no longer of compulsory school age." [Source]
Why would you want to live in England anyways? The weather is worse than we get in Canada.
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We don't want to, but America won't open her borders to us and we're too proud to apply for statehood.
I dont know anything about wages or anything
But like psy said, house prices have boooomed.
Yeah, house prices are really retarded and other prices are high. I was looking to buy Adobe Premier on the Internet and the prices are $849 and £720. If there are 2 dollars to the pound then where can I import and save several hundred quid? It's insane.
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when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away".
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Wages are lower in america though aren't they so it might balance out.
Also, my mum just told me wine is more expensive in Canada (dont know aboiut US) so i'll stay here ta
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