Selling off the UK rail franchise has been a disaster

**Gandalf** · 08-07-2018 12:23 AM

The UK rail system is scarily bad. I was shocked when I discovered it was something like 25-30 pounds to get from the airport to my hometown. It's not a long journey by any stretch of the imagination. Fair enough the train was in good condition and it wasn't overcrowded but it left a bad impression. I was thinking 'Is this country going to bankrupt me?' It is cheaper to travel to other countries than get to far flung parts of the UK by train. Traveling to the UK sucks because of the transport costs and also hotel costs. It is all very unreasonable and the quality of hotels is usually fairly poor. Unless you pay 250 pounds a night as I did once in London having got a bus there by mistake. A reasonable part of London where the people are rich and few of the people working in thd area could ever afford to live there. If I write a best seller and have Amazon get the word out I might go back to that hotel and take the train instead of the bus.

**Master** · 08-07-2018 02:55 AM

Chris Grayling is a fuck wit of a minister who privatised every department he goes into including employment with work programmes, probation and continue to keep the piss poor franchise that run the trains. He is an evil bastard and waiting in the wings to become prime minister.

**walrus** · 08-07-2018 03:05 AM

Off topic but I took a train in China from a small city to Beijing. It was a 19hr trip. The train had those sleeping cars, looked like our trains I see in the movies from the fifties. Dinner service to your room. Really cool way to travel

**Master** · 08-07-2018 03:06 AM

Originally Posted by walrus

Off topic but I took a train in China from a small city to Beijing. It was a 19hr trip. The train had those sleeping cars, looked like our trains I see in the movies from the fifties. Dinner service to your room.

Bet it was cheap as chips to ride on it.

**walrus** · 08-07-2018 04:31 AM

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by walrus

Off topic but I took a train in China from a small city to Beijing. It was a 19hr trip. The train had those sleeping cars, looked like our trains I see in the movies from the fifties. Dinner service to your room.

Bet it was cheap as chips to ride on it.

Cheap as chips, good one. Yes, with the western conversion you don’t need much money to live like a king in China as long as you are not scared to leave the spots that cater to westerners. Master if u are looking for real cheap living I can recommend a few spots in Afghanistan

**Master** · 08-07-2018 04:43 AM

Originally Posted by walrus

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by walrus

Off topic but I took a train in China from a small city to Beijing. It was a 19hr trip. The train had those sleeping cars, looked like our trains I see in the movies from the fifties. Dinner service to your room.

Bet it was cheap as chips to ride on it.

Cheap as chips, good one. Yes, with the western conversion you don’t need much money to live like a king in China as long as you are not scared to leave the spots that cater to westerners. Master if u are looking for real cheap living I can recommend a few spots in Afghanistan

I have my backup place. India. 29p for a haircut and that is with a tip.

**Gandalf** · 08-07-2018 05:40 AM

Ironically foreigners cannot buy property in India which is kind of unfair considering how many Indians own property in the UK. I have thought about retreating to somewhere cheap and reclusive, but it's temp contracts, restrictions and uncertainty. Impossible to do a Robinson Crusoe anymore.