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TheFuturist wrote:

gedo_gurl wrote:Very true. It's not just us, it's a UK wide problem. Sometimes the difference between a minimum wage job and benefits is as little as £50, people lose the motivation to work. They're introducing a new style of benefits which promises that you'll be a lot better off at work.

Talk about hook line and sinker, GG you really believed the Conservative propaganda.

Togdeer wrote:

gedo_gurl wrote:It's not genius to have your father live away from you just to avoid paying full rent. It's better to live frugally as a family unit.

Then he will be working to pay the rent. No money is going to be left after the rent and bills. Also the wife is not going to get a lot of money, because the husband is working, the Kids money is going to be reduced. The only people who are going to be better off are the government. If Somalis never did this there would be no such thing as hagbet/ayuuto

gedo_gurl wrote: Council houses have cheap rent and you can always leave London. There are other cities which have a fraction of the rent cost for a bigger space, groceries are also cheaper outside of London. London is overrated and the school environment is terrible.

gedo_gurl wrote:Very true. It's not just us, it's a UK wide problem. Sometimes the difference between a minimum wage job and benefits is as little as £50, people lose the motivation to work. They're introducing a new style of benefits which promises that you'll be a lot better off at work. It will gradually reduce the amount of benefit paid in line with your earnings instead of stopping it altogether when you find paid work and I think it will do the trick. I sounded like I hate our people here but wallahi I just want kids to grow up in the sort of environment which gives them self esteem to aim higher in life.

cheifaqilbari wrote:

gedo_gurl wrote:Did they lie though? For such a small community we've got loads of shit heads and women who think popping out kids counts as a full time job while the father assumes no obligation towards them. I despise UK Somalis, they're very different to Somalis in Africa, UAE and USA. If they banned housing benefit things would change for the better because women would be pickier when choosing a husband I.e they'd choose a someone who'll pay the rent and not a sperm donor resulting in a better society all round.

says the women who married jaymaakaan exe. Abaayo naga fadheeso meeshan nacnacda ba nagu bathy.

smooth wrote:

gedo_gurl wrote: Council houses have cheap rent and you can always leave London. There are other cities which have a fraction of the rent cost for a bigger space, groceries are also cheaper outside of London. London is overrated and the school environment is terrible.

In most skilled professions you will also take a massive pay cut to do that, in my industry its as much as 20k a year if I moved out of London, the way I weather the storm when I was growing up is just sharing accommodation with a co-worker, but I am seriously considering moving mainly due to sickening levels of pollution