Can you refer me to a study which takes into account average gross wages, income taxes, the costs of mortgages/ property rental, gas (petrol), groceries and so on?
2007-02-01 10:58:56 · 9 answers · asked by henners1979 2 in Social Science ➔ Economics
This link has exactly what i think your looking for.
Hope this helps!..
http://www.usa-vs-uk.com/about.html
2007-02-05 08:08:14 · answer #1 · answered by ♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♪♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♪♫♪♫♪♫♪ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The main flaw in this question is, which Americans? As a general population, GDP is higher, taxes are lower etc. than in the UK. However, most of those tax cuts and national income belongs to a few very wealthy people in America, which has massive poverty, despite huge wealth.
In the UK, the wealth is not very equal, but is spread more evenly, with far less relative poverty. Also, the British poor do not have to pay for health, and receive high social security, which means that a single mother in London is going to be far better off than the one in New York.
2007-02-04 05:10:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good lord yes. I work for a British company and travel there. It is a good generalization that things cost the same number of Pounds in the UK, as they cost in dollars in the US. Which is to say things costs about 95% more. (Except for the things that cost FAR more even than that). In addition, so many things to American eyes are just astonishing low quality (worst of all hotels), while service is universally mediocre and stingy (Brits visiting the US are simply dumbfounded at the concept of friendly waiters and massive soft drinks with free refills).
Sadly, UK workers do not make correspondingly more money. As best I can tell, they make even less money. So I'm amazed they can make do at all. (The answer is that Americans just consume a lot more). When my Brit coworkers come to the US they've been known to bring empty suitcases to load up on clothes and other merchandise, which seem unbelievably affordable to them.
That said I really like UK and the people, but in material terms it's just a different universe of low expectations compared with the US.
2007-02-01 11:19:44 · answer #3 · answered by KevinStud99 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being an underdog means less expectations and obviously less pressure. Its proven theory that additional pressure affects the performance negatively most of the times. Clarke is just trying to put his team in comfort zone, which would help his team to concentrate on performance in better way. In Champions' trophy every team has a chance. No one cant be tagged as underdog especially Aussies. Now days they are not good as earlier but still they can beat any team in ODIs anywhere in the world. India as world cup winner and #1 ODI team can win the series. Only a 'multidimensional' ignorant will call India underdog and not a favorite team to win.
2016-05-24 03:20:00 · answer #4 · answered by Michelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If all this stuff about America is true... then I'm sure moving there!!
I think here in England the taxes are really high and stuff, but it's good I guess cos we get free healthcare!
Well, even though my family is pretty well off (my dad earns £120,000 a year) I do live in Liverpool, renowned in England for being on eof the poorest cities. It's pretty rough, but I'm sure that there are places in America a lot worse than this. Like one of those poor areas of New york.
2007-02-05 05:52:55 · answer #5 · answered by Kim M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite the opposite actually. they have to word a lot harder for their money. And the average individual debt is collossal.
On the other hand , they don't have big mortgages. And they certainly DON"T pay the huge taxes that we do in the UK. Americans are obsessed with taxes.
Of course because they don't pay big taxes, they don't have the "social security" that we do. Which is either a good or bad thing depending on your point of view.
2007-02-01 11:14:27 · answer #6 · answered by Not Ecky Boy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can pull up web sites of areas / travel and tourism of a place and they will list all of these statistics. For example: Michigan travel and tourism, and it list all of those things. So I imagine they have the same type of things for Britian as well.
2007-02-01 11:08:01 · answer #7 · answered by mischa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't help you there mate, but apparently the Irish are better off than the British, don't know if that helps!!
2007-02-01 11:08:22 · answer #8 · answered by Princess Paradox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the working class of today would have been better off had we lost
the Revolutionary
2015-01-15 10:29:24 · answer #9 · answered by David 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋