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[creeper1]

unless you land a job making serious money when you return!


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/comment/talking-politics/only-rich-fall-love-cameron-britain-115946600.html


"The Migration Advisory Committee did the sums and announced this morning that the salary would need to be somewhere between �18,700 and �25,700. It will almost certainly be accepted and implemented. That means half the working population of Britain are about to lose the right to fall in love with someone overseas and bring them home to live together. Only the rich can fall in love on holiday. Only the rich are allowed to live with the person they love. The poor must be apart, or leave their own country"

I guess the move is aimed at asian community that regularly import wives.
However this move has big implications for those Brits with K-wives or husbands.

I really don't think an ESLer is going to be on money of between $18,700 or �25,000 any time soon.

Better get used to being a lifer and seeing those bland apartment buildings for the rest of your lives.

[radcon]

[Jonephant]

[bigverne]

[litebear]

[creeper1]

If �18,000 is such a low salary why are you over in Korea making �14,000?

ESLers (who in the vast majority of cases have nothing to offer employers in their own country) would be luck to make �6 an hour.

Say they work full time 37.5 hours.

Therefore 37.5 x 6 = �225

To get yearly salary �225 x 52 = �11,700

That as you can see is far less than �18,000

[Kimchifart]

[cj1976]

It's a good thing that I have absolutely no desire to go back to the UK. When I graduated almost 10 years ago, I had a standard office desk job in a small firm and I was paid 15,000 per year, which was quite bad even then.
Surely, with the rate of inflation etc, 20,000 per year must be at the lower end of the scale.

[eamo]

Just another reason to not go back to Rip-off Britain.........or Broken Britain........or whatever you want to call it to describe how it's going to hell in a handbasket.


The UK only really offers 'The Good Life' to those households earning over 50,000 per year. Then you can live in a nice neighborhood, shop at Sainsburys, and send your kids to nice schools.......

........for the rest of us it means living in Chavland, shopping at Iceland and sending your kids to schools where they learn more bad than good.

No thanks.....I'm staying put......oh, and BTW, some of us ESLer's earn a lot more than 14,000 quid a year!!

[stevieg4ever]

There are hardly any jobs in the UK now. Unemployment is at a record 17 year high. Before, your average supermarket and grocery shop consisted of pensioners and students behind the tills; now its graduates. The government is looking more and more towards internships, apprenticeships and subsidising small employers in order to take on more workers. Alot of the jobs on the market are temporary or part-time: viz-a-viz minimising the amount of pay and benefits the employee is entitled to and making positions accessible to foreign residents.

The job market cannot sustain the population; what with spiralling immigration, poor fiscal debt, national debt at 104% of GDP, banks not able to lend money thus small and medium sized business are stagnating, a broken society (as witnessed during the England riots) and a shrinking economy to boot the UK is doomed. Whats more, if countries like India start caling in the government bonds they own it will get even worse.

What gets me is all this 'graduate starting salary of �25,000' as if you just sign your name and get the ball rolling. Sorry, it doesn't work like that anymore. Practically everyone I know started at the bottom of the ladder and that is not �25,000 let me tell you. The country is morally, financially and socially bankrupt: Cameron knows it, everyone knows it and as a result people are only out for themselves in the UK.

I can't wait to return to Korea.

[orosee]

If you're a man you should not get married before you're 35 and at that age you better make a lot more than these limits.

Unfortunately, from a continental European perspective, the UK appears to have become a country of marginal income earners where you can only get by on a double income. I have a sister living in Scotland and at times I have the impression that she's living in a pre-90's Poland with internet.

Of all the people I've met overseas, the English seem to be the ones most happy not to be home anymore.

[cj1976]

Parts of the country are comparable to Eastern Europe. High unemployment, violent crimes, lack of education, no life chances, almost no social mobility, racial tension, drug and alcohol problems, teenage pregnancy etc. I read an article comparing Glasgow to the former Soviet Bloc states and there are many parallels.

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[The Floating World]

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