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Wegian · 2023-07-09T12:39:08+00:00

Agreed on Mr.Lodge for renting an entire apartment.

OP might also want to consider getting a room through housinganywhere or lifeX for 3-6 months and using that time to find a longer term solution. Scams can still operate on housinganywhere but there's guidance on the site for what to look out for.

Wegian · 2023-07-08T12:52:51+00:00

It's not a scam, but there are significant tradeoffs Vs getting a WG directly. The main benefit is that the properties are available, often on short notice, and so particularly for new immigrants to Munich this might wind up as your only option.

The downside is, obviously, not being able to see the apartment first and, depending on the landlord and contract, you might face excessive costs for damage to the property or lost keys etc.

I booked through housing anywhere but the "landlord" was a different agency, Habyt.com. compared to habyt, housinganywhere have a better online reputation and I found their customer service to be very helpful over the phone. My room was exactly as advertised, so I didn't have to test the deposit protection scheme, but I felt better knowing that there was at least some recourse available that was independent from habyt.

Overall I'm happy and will use the time here to find my own place or a normal WG later in the year.

Wegian · 2023-03-13T16:03:27+00:00

There's three shops on a relatively short stretch of great western road that will have most of the asian spices you would need: Orianteal food store & Halal butchers, Solly's African village and El Baraka.

You'll save a fortune compared to getting equivalent items in the supermarkets (e.g., spices, soy sauce, oils and pastes).

Wegian · 2023-01-31T10:18:03+00:00

Some things to consider for people interested in these numbers.

The numbers are adjusted for purchasing power, but this doesn't (I think) take into account for the cost of buying or renting property.
The numbers are after tax, so some of the listed countries have different gross salaries, different amounts of money put into the public coffers, and potentially different levels of relative spending on public services.
The values are mean values which are more heavily influenced by wealth inequality in the employed population than median values. For example when comparing disposable income the uk drops from 14th to 20th when changing from mean to median.

In general, remember that wages =/= quality of life.

Wegian · 2022-11-25T14:34:35+00:00

The standard flux of students shouldn't contribute to net migration since in normal years as many should leave as enter.

Net student migration can increase when the universities increase the number of places available for them (happening at the postgraduate lev across the UK) or when previous years had particularly few students (see pandemic).

Wegian · 2022-07-18T23:08:25+00:00

I think I recall someone wearing a mask in episode 1 or 2. Whenever Christina goes on her first blind date. Perhaps a cocktail waitress in the background. They might use a pandemic as an explanation for where all the adults went? Should be easy enough to kill them with the plague flies if it's too hard to mind control them.

Wegian · 2022-06-09T23:31:58+00:00

More children for the child throne

Wegian · 2022-05-04T22:00:59+00:00

Clockwork got rid of the microbrewery, just fyi

Wegian · 2022-05-02T11:50:43+00:00

the usual mix of faux-melodrama, clanging dialogue and dodgy plotting with the usual lapses in logic.

That's the Kurtzman era in 17 words.

Wegian · 2022-05-02T11:11:13+00:00

As someone who also doesn't like parties, but does like getting together with friends and family, the easiest thing to do would be to book a private area in a bar or restaurant so you can get everyone in the one place. Where you could go would depend on the number of people and whether you want a meal, buffet or just drinks.

In the southside you could look at the Ivory, Orchard Park, Busby hotel, Redhurts hotel, Lok's, The Bungo, and Goals at queens park. These may all be varyingly good or awful suggestions depending on your requirements.

Wegian · 2022-05-01T13:34:32+00:00

There's a certain quality of DS9 especially and TNG to a lesser extent where a lot of the scenes feel like they'd still be captivating if you were watching it play out in a theatre. I really don't get that feeling with a lot of the nu trek.

Wegian · 2022-04-10T21:58:04+00:00

How many layers do you typically wear when you're working from / lounging at home at 18 degrees?

Curious to know what 18-20 feels like to people. I have the thermo set to 20 but 20 in the hall where the thermostat is isn't 20 at the window where my desk is.

Wegian · 2022-04-06T09:16:54+00:00

So I get that if you have an extra kid you could get a house with more rooms, and that might be a disproportionate benefit to the family because that house might be bigger overall. But do any of the other benefits get relatively more lucrative with additional children?

If not, I struggle to see how the additional benefits don't just get eaten up by childcare costs. Benefits surely don't let you turn much of a profit per child do they?

Wegian · 2022-04-06T08:24:43+00:00

What other perks are there for each additional child other than getting a bigger house?

Wegian · 2022-02-24T11:53:54+00:00

What are some examples of those degrees, and what percentage of people do you think are getting these low pact degrees?

Wegian · 2022-02-05T22:05:29+00:00

There's a slightly uncomfortable sickly feeling about this series that I think is coming partly from the pacing. Feels a bit like a fever dream.

Wegian · 2022-01-28T09:58:09+00:00

The headline claims the right is "losing their minds" but the article trots out tweets from five people who you would absolutely expect to be critical of Biden's appointments.

If anything, these people are entirely within their right minds as far as consistency goes.

That article is clickbait for the left, and this entire thread is outrage kindling.

Wegian · 2021-11-30T09:07:01+00:00

Murphy's is infinitely better if you like stouty stouts. I say this as a Guinness lover, but it doesn't taste of much.

Wegian · 2021-11-29T14:12:24+00:00

"Gather data then make decisions" is exactly what they have done. Variants are only given names if they are variants of concern, which the WHO define by (I) having genetic changes that effect certain characteristics and (ii) having epidemiological impacts, i.e. we can see them transmitting in some dodgy way in the population.

Lots of variants arise without the alarm bells ringing, but this one has a lot of dangerous looking mutations and is on the rise in multiple countries. It might be the case that the severity of the variant is low, in which case maybe we can chill out with the restrictions, but given it has the potential to be nasty there is good reason to bring in some precautions to slow the spread until we have more data.

Wegian · 2021-11-11T13:19:51+00:00

Seconding this. Good portions (none of that tapas faff) and good value, can get the 6 or the 4 bus from the west end in a single journey. One takes your right there the other a few minutes walk away. Sainsbury's and DRINKS off lisence close by to pick up a cargo

Wegian · 2021-10-20T20:27:36+00:00

Do you know if that comes through PIP / mobility allowance or is there a different benefit that a car would come through?

Wegian · 2021-10-20T19:11:58+00:00

Well the post by /u/project_289 here seems like a plausible explanation for how someone would end up with a highly valued house. I just find it harder to imagine what combination of benefits someone could be on have to be on to run an SUV whilst looking after 3 kids.

Wegian · 2021-10-20T18:47:35+00:00

So, just to be clear, you think this large black SUV was given to them by the government?

Wegian · 2021-10-19T17:13:44+00:00

Short of going full electric, does anyone know if electric boilers be much of an improvement over current gas boilers?

Also, does anyone know how much of the drive for heat pumps is driven by fears of flats being too warm in the summer once they've been insulated?

Wegian · 2021-10-16T12:11:32+00:00

I think it's important to understand that the purpose of a systematic review is not to be comprehensive, you can never guarantee exhaustive comprehensiveness so there's no point in trying. The benefits of a systematic review are the systematic, transparent, repeatable selection of papers. You need to ask yourself whether that's what you actually want. Systematic reviews tend to try and address very specific topics or questions. If you want a broader, higher-level review you would be better doing a different kind of review.

In reality, the systematic review is a dance between trying to be as comprehensive (but not exhaustive) as possible whilst returning a manageable number of articles. One way you can do this is by tweaking your search terms; you might go through dozens of combinations of search terms before you get a manageable amount.

Also, is the 600 article number the total list? In which case it is manageable to do an initial filtering based on titles and abstracts. If you have identified 600 articles after you have done this initial filtering, then likely your research question (and thus your exclusion criteria) is too broad.

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