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Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

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Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

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post #15

This could actually be good but instead it just comes across as a coded xenophobic rant. Wasted opportunity!

And it’s actually good. Immigration does not do 30 year olds any favours. It only helps businesses and pensioners.

In the west there are not enough young people to support the elderly, and immigration of young people can help to address this problem to the benefit of everyone.

Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

#34

How can Nick's rent be £4,500? You can rent a nice, 2 bedroom flat with two showers+toilets, 13 mins' walk from a London Underground station in zone 3, for less than £2,000. Even if they don't want to share with another couple, Nick and his girlfriend should each be paying less than £1,000, no?

Per quarter? It's not the monthly rent.

Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

#35
C'mon... 3 years have passed and only two job offers applied for? What is Nic's degree in? Babylonian history? When I was in this position I applied to 20 ads per month. In addition to applying I had alerts on my phone, if a job ad dropped that matched my cv well I'd call the recruiter within 5 minutes of posting. I scored two great jobs this way. But this was in IT... I hear every other industry is much, much harder

Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

#37

I live in the East Midlands in the UK. You can grab a reasonable first house here for less than £150k quite easily. So you'll need a 5% deposit, £7,500 for one of those. One person on an average salary for the area would be able to afford a mortgage for a house like this on their own. But Nick has a girlfriend, who can hopefully work, so should be able to afford it easily. But half of people earn less than the mean s…

This is true. You don’t need a £100K deposit unless you want to live in a £1M house, which is not necessary in the UK. If you want to buy a big apartment in central London or a four bed house near London, sure. But most people would consider that a luxury and not a necessity to raise a family.

Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

#39
As someone sympathetic to this, throwing in the culture war stuff (make jokes about LGBT etc) is a massive own goal and makes it so easy for people to discredit. This could have far more cross-party support but it's just going to amuse the people who already agreed with it and make everyone else think it's the alt-right letting the mask slip..

Re: Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK

#40
post #19

This could actually be good but instead it just comes across as a coded xenophobic rant. Wasted opportunity!

[flagged]

I wish conservative humor was actually funny.

I got a question that was about extinction rebellion blocking my bus. I chose "move them out of the way." The result:

> You and another guy chuck them off the road. The bus drives through and you run after it and jump back on. The protestors are crying.

Eugh. And everyone clapped. The other guy? Albert Einstein.

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