Life Expenses in the UK

[Beanz]

I don't think anyone in there right mind wants to be stuck in poverty.
Miles your a professional mate so I think you judge people by your standards remember not everyone is academicly smart.
My take on life sometimes you need some luck and good contacts to get on nothing in life is a give me.!

miles is skipping the whole part about how the red carpet has been rolled out for him in South Korea like it is for all white people who work over there in the far East. The red carpet gets rolled out you are a VIP you are somebody special you stick out in the crowd like a sore thumb because the crowd is 99.5% Korean or Japanese if you are in Japan for example. I'm not saying that he is not a professional and I know that he is a good English teacher and works very hard at it but he is judging the poor people in the UK or in the US for example on a standard as if they are VIPs in expats living in a country like South Korea or Japan in which the red carpet is rolled out for these people. You have all heard the old adage all those schools really want over there in South Korea or Japan is a white face a white Western face that they can show the parents of the students. There are tons of white people in Japan and South Korea who cannot teach worth a damn but because they speak native English and they are white they get the red carpet treatment. So Miles has been over there so long he thinks it is so easy as it is for him for everybody in this world. It would not be as easy as he thinks if he was in the United States or the UK because then he will just be a dime a dozen

Well that explains a hell of a lot. Gandalf admitted as much years back but I thought he was joking.

[Primo Carnera]

I can’t say I’ve completely followed this thread, but what I would say is £6.90 per hour is not a minimum wage rate, either she’s 18-20 years old, so she’s on more than the minimum wage, or she’s over 20 and being paid illegally below the NMW.
I am also not of the opinion that spending £20 a month on a mobile phone and having a Netflix subscription constitutes to being in poverty.