Selling off the UK rail franchise has been a disaster

**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.

**Master** · 08-07-2018 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by Gandalf

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.

I think you can cheat that law by paying someone to use their name.

In Saudi Arabia I think it is the same?

**Gandalf** · 08-09-2018 01:03 AM

It's hardly comparable though Master. Don't be an apologist for unfair policies towards countries full of white people. Walrus cannot build his church in Saudi Arabia and I cannot buy a house in India. Yet millions of Indians and Middle Easterns own property and exercise their religious rights in the West. Then some have the gall to say 'We don't like it. We want our own laws too'.