Best to live North of the border?

[anotheoldgit]

If you live in Scotland you get,

Free Eye tests

Free personal care in old age

Free Uni. tuition fees

Free prescriptions

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If you live in England

You pay around £19 for an eye test

Pensioners have to pay full residential care costs if they own assets of more than £23,000.

Students face paying up to £9,000 a year.

You pay £7.20 per item for perscriptions

How is then we get all the immigrants?

[snags]

''dont all you englanders be moving to scotland please !''

Well... if you're what awaits us then there's little worry of that happening...


Oh... I forgot the :-)

[anneasquith]

snags, dont be too worried about forgeting :), you made your point.... :)

[McMouse]

I think it's great that the Scots have incentives to stay where they are and keep their gene pool intact. Anyway life expectancy is pretty low there and most of them never reach an age to enjoy these benefits.

[Old_Geezer]

You forgot colder weather.
I'd rather head south, perhaps not as far as the Med, but that way.

As for the English getting less than other UK residents, it's the usual modern tale of pressure groups making enough noise getting stuff while the rest of us are left as unimportant. It's the fun game of 'kick the English citizens'.

[ixion]

Old Git - when you talk about England I think you mean London and the affluent "home counties" - immigrants from poorer parts of the UK and the world in general move there precisely because it is more affluent .

[rov1100]

Maybe the immigrants are unaware of the free benefits in Scotland. We should encourage them to move there as they have loads of available unused space in the country.

[Dris]

AOG
I thought I was fairly literate as well ;)
I dont think you're being rude but tell me what you didnt understand and i'll try another avenue.
Im not having a lot of luck today with people not understanding what i'm posting.

[anotheoldgit]

Dris

/// You dodnt get free scripts.///

dodn't & scripts??

/// why not continual griping that the English should et their fingers out and be pr active in ste ///

why not continual griping ?

should et their fingers out ?

and be pr active in ste ??

[Dris]

AOG -I did follow those posts on by this one -sorry you didnt notice it but I did at least posts to draw attention to the reasons for my errors.

'Blooming lappy touch sensitive today thats twice submitted before id finished/rectified.

Fair do's Sqad - must got to Specsavers -sure ive seen flippant remarks from you re Scotland ;)

We are multi cultural here as well AOG -may surprise you to learn ;) '

I even finished the post with a wink to you.

[Dris]

O dont pick me up on typos on that post.^^
We call prescriptions 'scripts' btw and so do my GPs and Pharmacists.I thought it was in common use.

[gollysailor]

You must visit Wester Ross in May (before the midge wakens) or September (when they usually die). Wonderful mountains. Wonderful lochs. Very few humans. Edinburgh/Glasgow you could be anywhere, apart from the culture bits.

[Dris]

Fab isnt it gollysailor :)

AOG -ahem....