Pension or holiday home ?
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Originally posted by Whoosh View PostPension or holiday home ?merely at clientco for the entertainment -
Holiday home.
Then you'll still have somewhere to live when our state pensions become a means-tested benefit in a few years.Comment
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Pension. Holiday homes are a notoriously bad investment.What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Originally posted by Whoosh View PostPension or holiday home ?
So home all the way - make sure the walls are thick enough to stop high caliber bullet: think Mad Max IV only in the UK.
HTHComment
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Originally posted by Whoosh View PostPension or holiday home ?
"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostEven if Sir Merv fails to devalue your pention with Zimbabwe style money printing then it will be taxed or meant tested so that you get bugger all.
So home all the way - make sure the walls are thick enough to stop high caliber bullet: think Mad Max IV only in the UK.
HTH
Mind you, maybe it is not surprising when you consider that you took months to sort out the purchase of a couch!!
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostEven if Sir Merv fails to devalue your pention with Zimbabwe style money printing then it will be taxed or meant tested so that you get bugger all.
So home all the way - make sure the walls are thick enough to stop high caliber bullet: think Mad Max IV only in the UK.
HTH
Bury some gold under the kitchen floor too. So if the money goes t*ts up you will still have an ejector seat.Comment
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Originally posted by KimberleyChris View PostBury some gold under the kitchen floor too.
Only split gold into parts - some very small and some very big just in case you get tortured to show where they are you can lead them first to the small one, even if they kill you after you show them where you'll die in knowledge to fecked them up good!Last edited by AtW; 6 February 2012, 21:05.Comment
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostYou've changed your tune. We have spent years trying to convince you of the benefits of bricks and mortar whilst you happily paid your landlord's mortgage for him instead.
Mind you, maybe it is not surprising when you consider that you took months to sort out the purchase of a couch!!
What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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