£100000 a year but too poor to be able to afford a third child

[emkana]

I might be mad to get into this again, after that money thread I started the other week, but I just feel like I'm on a completely different planet again, after reading this article. It raises some good points comparing Britain and France, but the first example used is just ludicrous IMO.

article here

Same here, GDG. Break out the violins, all, let's play a tune of woe.

ggg - but if you earn 10K the choice on what you spend it on is far more limited than the choices for spending that you have when you earn 100K. If you earn 10K you probably have very little choice as most of it would go on bills, food and clothes and very little else. The person with the £100K income has huge scope for cutting spending.

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Ha ha !

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Sure, GGG, got £100,000 to front me for the 'experiment'?

lol ggg. I must say your arguments for a move to France are brilliant and impassioned and now I know that it was written under the influence I swoon with even more admiration.

It would take less than a bottle of LaTour to entice me to move to France.

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W/ballet wrap tops to match, I presume, ggg?

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Are there H&M shops in France ?

Are there H&M shops in France ?

Are there H&M shops in France ?

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Sorry, wonky PC there. I WISH it were b/c of an aperatif, though.

an awful lot of people live in London on low incomes and have three or more children, I've seen them working and shopping and in cafes, walking around etc

gg, I'll have those belt things if you are desperate to get rid of them. I really like them.

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god no, I don't do ballet tops (long body, they gape)

I like them but no boobs, so they gape too

I have size 36D knockas to put into the tops. But as a preggo, who knows what they'll do after this one arrives. Although, they've not gotten any bigger w/this pregnancy. Still the same.

the couple in the article are jointly on 100k a year by the looks of it. It is unlikely that a couple working full time would be on 10k jointly. And if they were there would be the working families tax thing paid too surely?

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Skinny
Working Tax Credit only goes up to about £15,000/pa. So you'd have to be a long, long way from £100,000 to collect any of that.