Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:20 pm Post subject: Move to Scotland. It's cheaper all round.
If you want Free Prescriptions move to Scotland! If you are over 60 and would like completely FREE travel by bus and train, move to Scotland. If you have a son or daughter at Uni......move to Scotland!
No bloody wonder that the Scots are either laughing at us, or, feeling sorry for us.
If you need an eye-test, move to Scotland, yep, you've guessed it, it's FREE! The same goes for a Dental check-up!
The real irony? The English Tax-Payer is paying for it!
Where did you get this information from? These are ideas that have been bandied around for several years, BUT- I still pay for my prescriptions, I get my eye test free, but that's only because glaucoma runs in the family.
Free travel on the bus after age 60- yes( if you don't mind a 1 mile uphill walk to the main road). Dental check up? IF you can find a Dentist to register with, you're very lucky. Most of them don't take NHS patients any more, only private. I'm lucky in that I have a dentist - my wife & son had a different one (in the same practice). He retired, his replacement only lasted a couple of months, then moved down south to get more money! Everytime a new dental practice opens, there's a queue literally a mile long to register!
Take into account that we have the lowest average wage in the country, and the grass doesn't seem quite so green !!!
Oh well, at least we don't have Motorway madness up here, ( or even Motorways, for that matter) _________________
Courtesy of the Daily Mail, I'm afraid, Sherrif. Talk about stirring up ill-feelings. Not too sure of the truth behind it but you know how the Mail likes to toady up to "Middel England". _________________ http://sewardchronicles.ning.com/
That's why I don't bother with the papers. As we used to ask " what's the difference between the Dandy and the Sun?" "20p"
As for the English tax payers paying for these supposed freebies, they are actually paid out by SCOTTISH taxpayers.
( As a matter of interest, I am a Brummie, not a Scot, but I've lived here for almost 20 years)
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