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Re: One million cancel broadband as living costs rise

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Post by syntaxing »

omginternets wrote: post #149
syntaxing wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not OP, but I used tmobile ISP for over two years during the whole Covid era. Worked pretty good for what it is, managed to get about 200 Mbps down and 20 up. I hit 500 Mbps but moved away from that area at one point. I only just switched to fiber recently because a 1G fiber line was installed and only cost $60 a month.

>Worked pretty good for what it is, Sure. The "for what it is" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, though. See also: it's rather expensive for what it is.

Hmm not sure if I totally agree. Like sure, it’s a no brainer for my situation since I get 1G fiber for $60. But I have a bunch of friends and family paying $50 for Comcast for 200/10 copper lines.

Re: One million cancel broadband as living costs rise

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Post by zimpenfish »

penguin_booze wrote: post #264
jameshush wrote: post #153

Visiting family in the UK for the first time in about five years. Costs here are _way_ higher than I remember. I bought three hamburgers, three drinks, and two large pops at a burger shop here, the total was 48 GBP (about $60 USD). This was at Five Guys. I couldn't believe it. I visited my co-worker in the UK, and over some beers, he mentioned he's getting taxed at 48-50% on top of this. Also 20% VAT on regular shopp…

Try commuting by train. You'll cry twice: once when you hear the fare (the lolz), then again when you've to pay that fare (the real).

Only twice? Surely again when the train is delayed, again when it's cancelled, again when the next is consequently double-stuffed, etc.

Re: One million cancel broadband as living costs rise

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Post by was_a_dev »

CydeWeys wrote: post #358
was_a_dev wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you be making that much outside of CA?

I'm not in CA, never have been. I'm in NYC. And the reason I'm in NYC is precisely because these high-paying jobs are available here, which is also why I'm not in the UK.

Good to know. Thank you for answering my question

Re: One million cancel broadband as living costs rise

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Post by InCityDreams »

rcarr wrote: post #165
HlessClaudesman wrote: post #55

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UK was already creaking at the seems in the 2000's. I left in 2011 and have spent the last 5 years crawling up a sewer pipe of regulations trying to get my post brexit immigration sorted. Brexit was just a fantasy of better days to come that was actually pretext for a right wing power grab. And what do right wingers ultimately want? A world of red in tooth and claw capitalism with themselves as the permanent winners,…

> UK was already creaking at the seems in the 2000's. I left in 2011 and have spent the last 5 years crawling up a sewer pipe of regulations trying to get my post brexit immigration sorted. As someone planning to leave and never come back, can you give me a brief overview of some of the shit I might not know about that I'm going to have to deal with?

Make sure your gov.gateway is accessible for later pension stuff. Make sure you can keep your uk bank account if in the new country - i couldnt. Had to close it and transfer costs are high in emergencies. If your bank has an app Make sure it will work in thd new country. I had to change to UK on my phone for a year (Google rule?) to be able to get an app.

Re: One million cancel broadband as living costs rise

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Post by CapstanRoller »

schwoll wrote: post #307
omginternets wrote: post #117

Just yesterday I was trying to sign up with Verizon for my new address. Fiber is not available in my building, so they offer "5G Home Internet" for $60-$80/mo, which is crazy expensive for what it is. I asked whether there were ADSL lines available, since these were recently available for as cheap as $15/mo. It seems this is no longer the case. Maybe there's a market here? EDIT: I am in the US, and I've just realized…

Ask them for a landline phone. They'll either have to run new copper or choose to install fiber. Once they run copper then get a DSL company to run through that. Generally they won't want to run copper and don't want competition so they'll go ahead and run fiber. In either case I believe the law they're constrained by is local ordinances giving them a region based monopoly for traditional landline access in exchange…

Won't they funnel you into a VoIP "landline" instead? That's what Comcast does around here. I think they ripped out the copper long ago.

Re: One million cancel broadband as living costs rise

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

tristor wrote: post #173
_0w8t wrote: post #77

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It all depends on price details. In Norway one needs to pay about 20 Euro/month for a phone subscription with amount of data that allows, for example, watch YouTube or do video calls occasionally outside WiFi. Yet for 35 Euro/month one can get a mobile subscription with 1 TB of traffic with 10 MBit/s speed. That is enough to watch movies and do many kinds of remote work. Yet the fiber costs at least 50 Euro/month. So…

Sounds like it makes sense to get fiber as soon as 2+ people are sharing it, since it's faster and less than 70 EUR/mo.

You still want a cheap mobile plan, so it's not technically cheaper until you have 4 people.

But that's comparing fiber to 10Mbps cellular, and even with 2 people the fiber is dramatically faster and only €20 more expensive. If you can live with 10Mbps then there is presumably some broadband option at no worse than that speed for less than €30 and then you're already ahead with 2 people.

And most people aren't going to be happy with speeds that low, but then you'd be paying more for each cellular plan.

Re: One million cancel broadband as living costs rise

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Post by gpderetta »

larksimian wrote: post #303
koolba wrote: post #218

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With a 45% tax rate and a 20% VAT, something that costs $1 would require an income of $2.18.

He's not taxed at 45% he just doesn't understand progressive taxation. You'd need to make like 1 million a year or more for the effective rate to be 45% i think.

Well yes, including NI the marginal tax rate is 47%, so you can only asymptotically reach it.

But your effective tax rate is already 40% at 125k.

Re: One million cancel broadband as living costs rise

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Post by sharkjacobs »

MarkusWandel wrote: post #350

This applies to where I live in Canada. The price skew may be even greater elsewhere. Good residential broadband now costs in the neighbourhood of $60/month; this will be essentially unlimited, to the point of being able to leave a 4K video stream playing as background entertainment. Good cellular service costs in the neighbourhood of $40/month and the amount of data you can use is going up gradually; currently I see…

> good cellular service costs in the neighbourhood of $40/month

if you live in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, or Quebec. It's about double that in the rest of the Country.

Re: One million cancel broadband as living costs rise

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Post by odiroot »

jameshush wrote: post #153

Visiting family in the UK for the first time in about five years. Costs here are _way_ higher than I remember. I bought three hamburgers, three drinks, and two large pops at a burger shop here, the total was 48 GBP (about $60 USD). This was at Five Guys. I couldn't believe it. I visited my co-worker in the UK, and over some beers, he mentioned he's getting taxed at 48-50% on top of this. Also 20% VAT on regular shopp…

> This was at Five Guys

Five Guys is probably the most expensive fast food around here. It's not a surprise.

Re: One million cancel broadband as living costs rise

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Post by gpderetta »

noneeeed wrote: post #335
jameshush wrote: post #153

Visiting family in the UK for the first time in about five years. Costs here are _way_ higher than I remember. I bought three hamburgers, three drinks, and two large pops at a burger shop here, the total was 48 GBP (about $60 USD). This was at Five Guys. I couldn't believe it. I visited my co-worker in the UK, and over some beers, he mentioned he's getting taxed at 48-50% on top of this. Also 20% VAT on regular shopp…

Is your brother in Scotland? If not he should get his tax code checked. Combining income tax and national insurance contributions, the highest marginal tax rate on your salary is 47%, and that is only on everything over £125k (about $150k). The vast majority of people are in the standard rate band where you pay 20% IT and 12% NI contributions, a total of 32% on what you earn over the tax free allowance £12,500 and un…

Between 100k and 125k the tax free allowance tapers away, for an effective marginal tax rate of 60%.
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