One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK)

Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by KaiserPro on Thursday May 18, 2023 @04:34AM (#35985377)

I'm not sure why this pose was downvoted, apart from mentioning brexit.

I used to live in the countryside, the 90s had a background of rapid improvements in schools and hospitals. 2000s full of out of town megashops killing the high street. 2010s public service cuts. 2020 stuff just not working.

The scale of the housing price problem is difficult to behold.

https://www.plumplot.co.uk/Norfolk-house-prices.html has the house prices

https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/salaries/norfolk is the average wage. The average house price is 10x the average wage. but thats not evenly distributed. if you live up in the northern part, the average house price is 100x times wage.

The UK was already extraordinarily unequal in the 2000s, however inflation, benefit "adjustment" and general failure in policy.

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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by dukeyukey on Thursday May 18, 2023 @03:11PM (#35992663)

> if you live up in the northern part, the average house price is 100x times wage

I really, really, _really_ doubt that's the case. That'd need salaries to be <£10k and house prices of >£1 million.

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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by KaiserPro on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:13AM (#35998741)

Click on the first link, and look at the average price for burnham and blakney

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