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[CBBB]

OK if thats true i wanna have a fishbowl FULL of KEO and have a couple of goldfish in it

Sod the fish, give them water!

[Gasman]

600 a week? For just food and drink for two people? Everyone earning only the minimum wage would starve to death wouldn't they?

[Gasman]

And all those Brits out here on holiday this year complaining that Cyprus is even more expensive than the UK when it comes to shopping! The big fibbers!

[suegwyn]

Food/drink - £400 - 600 per week (for just 2 of us!)

I'm shocked and stunned where the hell do you do your shopping....Harrods???? We don't spend that much in a month for four of us!

[Phill]

COLA should be abolished, but new realistic and meaningful minimum wages limits should be set in its place.

The Cypriot Employers are taking the piss when it comes to pay. Nothing is cheap now in Cyp, but the wages have stayed at very low rates.

Young couples don't a rats chance in hell of making a go of it on the mickey mouse wages on offer and thats with both working.

Work for yourself then?

You need to Get real, not everyone can do that. Grow up Z4 FFS, we are talking seriously here.

i know. i live alone and on my salary, i just about make the month. I cannot save anything. although as a couple things are much easier as you share costs, etc. but things are too expensive and too difficult to save. although you some people who still live with their parents until they are 30 so that they can save money

Let me tell you something.

It is no different to living here in the UK. Between my wage and my other halves wage we don't earn a bad number on paper but the outgoings are so bloody high - we dont save either. The cost of living is so expensive over here.

I earn more money than you but my outgoings are more than yours. Who is better off?? No-body!

It';s not just Cyprus it's also the UK too!

Here we go:

Council tax (this is a low band) £120 per month
Electricity £100 per month
TV licence - yes we have to bloody pay to watch our bloody TV in the UK! - £10 per month
Food/drink - £400 - 600 per week (for just 2 of us!)
Petrol - £200 per month
Water - £40 per month!! This is a bloody joke especially after the amount of rain we get!!!!!!!!

On top of that - mortgage, Sky, internet, phoneline, life insurance (for mortgage) and car.

Do you want to swap?

Food and drink £400-£600 a WEEK? Do you eat out every night or are you a 30 stone alcoholic?

No mate, that's what it costs. That price includes things like shampoo, soap, bin bags etc etc. All stuff to run and keep clean your house.

LOL.... You really are takng this p**s!!!! For that amount a week living in Surrey you can have a gardener and a bloody window cleaner!!!!! Or do you spend most of your week down the pub???

[Phill]

Does the government take into consideration the number of scheduled weddings per given year when calculating COLA? How much do you shove in the envelope? I usually put a 50 in, but if it's someone I know, or God forbid a relative, that could go up to 500!

If only they did...
I was told a few years back that in general you put in what it would cost you to go out for an evening meal and a nights entertainent.... But Have seen some funny things though... I once knew of 2 Scottsmen of which 1 put in 10 euro's and I think he was kind of hoping for change... And the other wrote on the back I.O.U. Believe it or not... it's true...