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    Oh, I notice now that Amy is living alone....but needs housing support for a council home? So I am curious why she needs such support and where her money is going. Council housing is very cheap and clearly designed for lower income earners like Amy. What exactly is her issue?

    If it really is so tough on that money then why doesn't she take a few classes, upgrade her skills? Anyone can get a student loan and not pay it off until earning a set amount.


    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/property...-rent-280.html

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    Why doesn't she find a job closer if the transport is too much? She could even do my old relief work and all transportation costs would be refunded the following month. There is always a way. Maybe she could apply at Lidl where it is 9-10 pounds an hour. Amy seems eager to complain, but doesn't appear very driven. Why are other people able to do better than her? Why was I earning more than her as a student in the year 2001? Something odd with Amy.

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    This whole you two pretending to feud is a lark.

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    Quote Originally Posted by p4pking View Post
    This whole you two pretending to feud is a lark.
    What is even stranger is that we are the same person!

    I get that wages for some like Amy are low, but surely she considered transportation and wages before starting the job and she gets support for her council home rent. She is an enigma.

    People like Amy are the exception rather than the norm. There are hundreds of jobs that require skills and qualifications but you need to work for it. I know a chap who went home from here to study speech therapy as he knows there are jobs at the end and it will pay. It just requires a bit of common sense and a modicum of smarts.

    Tommy Robinson gets mocked by the snobs on here, but he made money by learning and working hard. Many do from your Al's, to your X's, to others like Master and Memphis who hold down steady decent work.

    Why didn't they go wrong? It is because we often end up where we are by the choices we make. This is where child nurture is key so that we do not end up with Amy's. It isn't the government that made her ignore skills and having the ambition to obtain the skills to do something.

    I also do not understand where all her money is going. She is probably paying 300 quid a month rent or something.

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    If I were a single person I'd be proper fucked off if I was blowing 200 quid a month on food. I don't spend that much now, not even close. We eat well, proper food, meat, veg, fruit. Occasionally chuck a pizza in the oven. I'd consider that quite normal.

    I think Amy isn't on a full time wage.

    There's always something lurking. I'd wager in most cases it's smoking. Struggling to buy or pay for the essentials but the fags remain. Not suggesting that's the case with Amy.

    My Mrs is a proper grafter. Has been since 13, two jobs right through until college, working evenings and weekends at college, full time job plus weekend work. Still at it now, works 6 days a week most weeks. You'd think that was something instilled in her by her parents. Her parents are proper lazy, her words not mine. Always considered work a nasty word, didn't/still don't want to do it. She routinely props them up financially because they've run out of the essentials, can't pay a bill. Still smoking though.

    Just to add. I appreciate that there are genuine people genuinely struggling for one reason or another. In my experience though, there's a clear and avoidable reason. Personally if ever I've been skint, I know exactly why and that it was in most cases avoidable. I'm going to buy this, or go here, or do that. It'll clean me out but fuck it, I'm doing it anyway.
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    Well said, Memphis. That's my take on it too. There is something up with Amy and she is likely playing it up. I have been skint and it wasn't because there wasn't money coming in, it was simply because I was young and reckless with it. I turned around completely in my mid 20's and find it easy without earning a fortune. You just need to avoid going to the pub and drinking 8 pints a night, ordering take aways several days a week, and for sure avoid the cigs. You save a fortune on that alone. Have a cig, have a drink, have a pizza, but understand moderation.

    I honestly think poverty is often a choice and many want to take you for a mug with the hard luck stories. Seen it all too often in my life. All that 'I could be dead tomorrow so I better spend now' nonsense. Good luck with that when you are not dead. It will probably rain at some point though. Be prepared.

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    Miles mate poverty is not a choice let's say you fuck up loose your job your wife fucks off your broke.
    Right no job your wife taken your money you lost your house your head has gone.
    On the streets POVERTY mate does not take much that just a example of what can go wrong.

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