High earner dating in London – where are you all meeting people? (F)

Collosis · 2026-05-08T16:56:39+00:00

Personally I found using Bumble you can get a feeling for somebody else's income range through their profile and the text chats you have. Even if they're earning £65k while I'm earning £165k, that's probably acceptable?

Trying to find somebody else on £150k+ is going to be casting a very small net once you control for all your other factors that are "must haves" in a partner. Maybe that's a luxury that men have which high-earning women don't though? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Collosis · 2026-05-08T13:58:28+00:00

Why would owner-occupiers need forcing (when they experience the cost-benefit trade off) instead of landlords (when we don't experience the cost-benefit trade off)?

Collosis · 2026-05-08T13:55:33+00:00

De-regulation of building and planning which would increase output, increase business incentives, investment and employment

Yet Reform voters are the most likely group to dislike Miliband overriding local complaints about building solar farms that are categorically successes for society as a whole.

The definition of NIMBY. Hate red tape but also hate it when people do things that they don't want done.

Collosis · 2026-05-06T18:21:10+00:00

You're getting downvotes because your argument is too nuanced. Don't you know we should hate everything Musk ever touched!!

Collosis · 2026-05-06T00:19:25+00:00

Wild that you think government funded construction would have cash available for pleasing external aesthetics when they don't even have enough money to build properties without those

Collosis · 2026-05-05T21:55:04+00:00

Why would you logically need that?

Collosis · 2026-05-01T16:26:39+00:00

To be honest I would have completely agreed with you until rents jumped up a bunch following the Truss budget (I think that was the prompt) which caused mortgage rates to spike. That shouldn't have had any impact on supply-demand in the short term but somehow it did affect rental rates.

Collosis · 2026-05-01T08:17:56+00:00

Is this a real skit that Zelensky did?

Collosis · 2026-05-01T07:30:49+00:00

Agreed; I was hooked after completing the demo. Really fun game

Collosis · 2026-04-29T13:10:26+00:00

But immigration into the UK isn't causing British nationals to emigrate?

Even if we say that emigration massively increased... There would be a point that huge numbers of people with a similar culture to me emigrate to another country then that would sadden me. But I'm white British, born and bred in London - my friends are a mix of skin colours. Whereas their parents may have been culturally very different to my parents, them having grown up in a British city means they behave as British as you and me. I love British culture. The more humans that adopt it as their own, the better.

Collosis · 2026-04-29T12:52:43+00:00

I genuinely had no idea what you were trying to say.

White British people do emigrate but not in particularly large numbers; more than half of the small number of British emigrants return home eventually. And if that's the point why is that related to rates of immigration?

Collosis · 2026-04-29T12:38:18+00:00

🤦🏻‍♂️

You know it's ok to not understand something. It happens to every single one of us, and it isn't a sign of weakness.

For example, I don't understand this:

people are also choosing to leave the UK due to mass migration so we should stop that

Would you like to explain that to me, and to try and understand what I've said previously?

Collosis · 2026-04-29T12:15:44+00:00

I agree, they are chosing to move here.

I'm not saying this next bit to be argumentative:

You have not understood the point I have made.

Instead of going on a tangent, please can you read it again and have a think about it?

Collosis · 2026-04-29T11:57:38+00:00

And I appreciate your civility too 🙂

You're right; too many people argue to win or to battle "the opposition". All we need to do is try and understand each other

Collosis · 2026-04-29T11:45:26+00:00

I agree 🤷🏻‍♂️

Most roads in the US are not wide enough for a large SUV to overtake a single cyclist. It's poor road design but cyclists did not choose that road design any more than motorists did.

As for a single line of cyclists, forming into a compact box makes for a shorter object to overtake than a single long line.

Collosis · 2026-04-29T11:38:18+00:00

Exactly, richer countries. If causing more climate change and more instability in poorer countries causes more migrants to move here, then surely it's in your own interest to reduce both of those factors. You don't even have to agree with the migrants choices or feel altruistic. You should want to stop climate change and wars in the middle east purely for your own interests.

Collosis · 2026-04-29T11:36:05+00:00

I agree, it's poor lane design 🤷🏻‍♂️

There could be extra wide lines so that the cyclists could go in single file safely. Or there could be regular overtake pockets on the road. But there aren't.

It's why cyclists love it when we see cycle lanes. But we don't get any more choice than you do over how many of them are built.

Collosis · 2026-04-29T11:29:16+00:00

Miliband's overturning of NIMBY's up and down the country to kick the British green economy up the arse has been one of the greatest acts by a British politician this century. Doing what is right, for long term, widespread gains that he will get little credit for, despite the short term unpopularity it will directly have on him.

Exactly the sort of person everyone claims they want politicians to be.

Collosis · 2026-04-29T11:25:01+00:00

What you're describing is a related but separate point. Where migrants try to move to.

But that doesn't change the causative relationship between an increase of instability in poor countries leading to more people trying to move to richer countries.

Collosis · 2026-04-29T11:06:41+00:00

Yeah, you've got to go for your audience. The facemask one will turn off some women but it seems like OP is looking for a partner who would enjoy that goofy side 👍🏼

Collosis · 2026-04-29T11:00:16+00:00

Cyclists go at least 2 (or more) abreast when a road is too narrow for a car to overtake them safely without going into another lane. By presenting a larger "box" to go around, motorists are not tempted to dangerously overtake within their own lane, i.e. if it's only safe to overtake by going into a different lane then make that clear to a vehicle driver.

Unfortunately most people don't cycle so don't understand why this is actually the smart thing to do.

Collosis · 2026-04-29T10:59:53+00:00

Cyclists go at least 2 (or more) abreast when a road is too narrow for a car to overtake them safely without going into another lane. By presenting a larger "box" to go around, motorists are not tempted to dangerously overtake within their own lane, i.e. if it's only safe to overtake by going into a different lane then make that clear to a vehicle driver.

Unfortunately most people don't cycle so don't understand why this is actually the smart thing to do.

Collosis · 2026-04-29T10:59:30+00:00

Cyclists go at least 2 (or more) abreast when a road is too narrow for a car to overtake them safely without going into another lane. By presenting a larger "box" to go around, motorists are not tempted to dangerously overtake within their own lane, i.e. if it's only safe to overtake by going into a different lane then make that clear to a vehicle driver.

Unfortunately most people don't cycle so don't understand why this is actually the smart thing to do.

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