Apartment - Shame They Could Not Afford A House

[SIRandyraven]

It's such a shame that young couples these days struggle to rent or get a mortgage. Even our Royals are having to cut there cloth and live in a pokey 57 bedroom flat.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2349635/Kate-Middleton-Prince-Williams-Kensington-Palace-home-makeover-cost-taxpayer-1m.html

[SIRandyraven]

Oh I miss read the story ...it's 57 rooms ...not bedrooms ....
Is that 2 bedrooms and 50 bathrooms maybe ?

[emmie]

perhaps they are expecting to have lots of children..

[anneasquith]

57 rooms,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,one does need some space, don't ya know !!!!!!

[bert_h]

Typical biased media reporting, trying to stir up readers' emotions by highly selective printing of the facts.

So what if it has cost £1m? That money has all ended up in the pockets of tradesmen and suppliers.

[sherrardk]

Where are they supposed to live? Maybe is two-up, to-down somewhere?

[emmie]

i also suspect from reading the piece the place would have had to be refurbished anyway whether they live there or not. Personally i hope they have a happy life together.

[anneasquith]

will they be paying rent and council tax, who pays for utilities ? I wonder ?

[SIRandyraven]

If the tax payer would like to give me £30,000 to fund my new loft conversion ....I promise I will use local traders.

[SIRandyraven]

Well the goods news is rather than moaning about being taxed to death and supporting the multi millionaire royals at a cost of 53p a year ....I have taken action. Off to a low tax country. On return will not work and live off savings.
The final straw for me was a capital gains bill for gains 12 years ago ...that even I did know I owed !.....

[emmie]

what low tax country, Greece>

[SIRandyraven]

Greece is not the word lol

[emmie]

so it is x

[emmie]

they don't pay tax, from my experience.

[SIRandyraven]

The only way I'm going to build up a net egg for retirement is to escape the UK tax system for a few years.
It simply don't pay to start from scratch and do well in the UK.
You would think it would be better to tax people at less than 30% and have a tax income , than tax them at 45% and get nowt because they got up and left.
But hey ho ....

[FredPuli43]

Bit worrying for them if they want to refurnish, all out of their own pockets. New curtains alone for 57 rooms are going to cost £150k at a rough guess.

[emmie]

sir raven, that is how Labour operate. tax the so called rich until the pips squeak, how does one define rich nowadays i wonder.

[friedgreentomato]

So?

I am happy that I am contributing to this!

[netibiza]

Yes but when Kate has the baby she'll be glad she only has 57 bedrooms when she starts cleaning. Anything bigger will drive her mad.