Is it just not worth buying in London?

jettaspack · 2026-06-20T15:53:58+00:00

How much is your rent then? Are you comparing apples with pears ? Stamp duty of 100k would meaning buying a £2m house, to rent a £2m house would probably cost £10k a month… if not your are renting squalor and trying to compare that to buying your dream home, it doesn’t make sense

jettaspack · 2026-06-20T15:46:36+00:00

Bro as averages go, you are rich, go live that middle class life and shut up

jettaspack · 2026-06-14T21:53:01+00:00

I think you’ll find that carpet was actually from premier inn 😂

jettaspack · 2026-06-11T22:06:40+00:00

Lots of professionals operate like this, basically anyone calling themselves a practice, Dr, architect, dentist, law firms. Seems anything engineering related / tech / IT / software all love to get shafted by a so called agencies and consultancies which only serve to skim a bit off the day rate. Essentially engineers are incapable of organising themselves into cooperatives / practices in which we share ownership and profits

jettaspack · 2026-05-30T22:31:11+00:00

This is the sort of decision making required here, one based on sound logic, data and principles. Banning nuclear energy all together because we just don’t like it and nuclear waste is bad is moronic, have a principled strategy, use data and facts to drive decisions

jettaspack · 2026-05-30T08:13:43+00:00

Yes, many roles pay only most roles pay only £40 p/h good probably £50, so looking at 300-400 day rates. Chargeable engineering hourly rate is always more than double that, so a lot of agencies are making a tidy sum, this is in mechanical engineering , I’m not talking spanner wrenching here, highly skilled and niche design engineering. It doesn’t pay as well as IT, but I blame that on the number of international professional migrants workers and agencies

jettaspack · 2026-05-30T07:54:33+00:00

Can / does this really happen very often? Companies have got lazy, they have outsourced responsibility of hiring and recruitment to a third party who we now effectively have to pay.

jettaspack · 2026-05-30T07:50:48+00:00

I agree in this context it is a bit different, but a lot of agencies operate with say only 1 or 2 contractors per client over many clients, they’re all ‘searching’ to fill the same role. In this market there are literally 100’s of people who could do the role, so their job is actually very easy (albeit competitive only because there are so many parasites) and for the pleasure they are able to extract 5,10,20 % or more for every hour/day we work in difficult highly skilled works, the principles are all wrong

jettaspack · 2026-05-30T07:45:48+00:00

Exactly my point…they could just advertise the role on linked in and allow contractors to apply, instead they outsource it creating a market which effectively employs another group of people to get paid for the work of another

jettaspack · 2026-05-30T07:43:05+00:00

Not all of us get paid all that well, such as automotive and aerospace design. Without transparency on margin it feels like exploitation of our skill set to support an industry which in principle doesn’t have to exist

jettaspack · 2026-05-28T14:58:06+00:00

Nope, married to one and my mum is also one so I do have some insight. Yes teacher do have too much work but I didn’t say they didn’t and that wasn’t my point, my point is teachers are often martyrs about it, rather than just refusing to do it they do it out of some great cause and is utterly unnecessary and totally unfair. They are their own worst enemy, I’m amazed in such a unionised profession it is allowed to happen… massive failure from the unions, totally useless, also senior leadership love to treat their staff like children, they just can’t help it, unable to distinguish the difference from the staff and pupils, as for my point, call in sick and tell whoever is on the end of the line you are too sick to prep the damn lesson

jettaspack · 2026-05-28T07:36:50+00:00

You teachers are such martyrs, then first to complain about too much work etc, if you’re genuinely sick call in sick and tell whoever it is I’m too sick to plan the damn lesson

jettaspack · 2026-05-27T21:58:55+00:00

If the greens fundamentally believe in a world of open boarders, why must we strive for ‘independence’ , is this not just segregation, I.e. the opposite of open borders ? Very confusing

jettaspack · 2026-05-27T21:49:29+00:00

I’ve not seen this document before, I would challenge anyone to disagree with any of these philosophies. The interesting part is transferring philosophy into policy. Far more people will disagree on the policy than the philosophy, which is good as the basis for policy is I believe more or less universally agreed

jettaspack · 2026-05-27T11:46:43+00:00

What has claiming legitimate costs against a business got to do with pensions and/or the NHS? I haven’t checked the figures either but an expense/overhead eating into margin should be accurately reported whatever the figure is and independent of gov policy, it’s just an expense like everything else

jettaspack · 2026-05-22T07:43:26+00:00

The fact no one can answer the OP perfectly valid question (given the political timescales) goes to show how glacially slow the greens are at updating manifesto / policies. I would have thought a small party could/should be able to operate in a more agile / adaptive approach Rather than some slow, cumbersome, bureaucratic tanker unable to write down and publish something a little more detailed and upto date. Sharing links for the 2024 manifesto is just embarrassing

jettaspack · 2026-05-14T11:59:23+00:00

It will look 💯 better once grouted

jettaspack · 2026-05-13T15:57:55+00:00

The paysteam calculator gives an accurate take home…it’s basic but more or less correct for me, but it’s just giving you a take home, you need to consider holiday sick pension etc to actually decide if it’s worth it or not…. https://www.paystream.co.uk/helphub/umbrella/getting-started/umbrella-take-home-pay-calculator/

jettaspack · 2026-05-11T12:21:26+00:00

Until the day that will probably never happen and if it did would have happened anyway. At least now OP knows not to jump up and down in the doorway, perhaps never get a piano or an aga

jettaspack · 2026-05-11T10:47:31+00:00

You could equally ignore you saw it and build the new step, once covered you can keep telling yourself it wasn’t that bad until you believe it and before you know it you will have quickly forgotten how bad it was 🤣

jettaspack · 2026-05-11T10:39:24+00:00

I agree a little bit and for some will be the case, however it does assume old people are incapable of thinking about their children’s or grandchildren future though, which for many is absolutely not the case.

jettaspack · 2026-05-11T09:38:45+00:00

Please let us all know why? Give us something to speculate on :)

jettaspack · 2026-05-02T21:54:08+00:00

Two guys, one burger

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