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Silicon Valley- The hottest market around?

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    #11
    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    No, he is a Walter Mitty fantasy type character who lives in Swindon and runs his tat shop.

    HTH
    I do hope you're going to be paying some tax on all that cash your company is sitting on when you eventually buy your house.
    What happens in General, stays in General.
    You know what they say about assumptions!

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      #12
      Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
      What's US like for bobs? People say how hard it is to get a visa, doesn't that go the big Indian firms who have flooded the UK market with cheap labour and keeping the wages low?

      I don't think it's a matter of high house prices driving up wages, more likely the other way round
      IMHO it's similar to the UK but on a larger scale due to the size of the country.

      We arrived in NYC last October and 2/3 of the hotel we were staying at for the first couple of weeks was with Asians/Indians working for the local insurance company. It's not hard for the big Indian or outsourcing firms to get H1B/L1 visas for them (most were working for IBM IIRC).

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        #13
        You have to tip for everything and 20% is expected.
        http://www.cih.org/news-article/disp...housing_market

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          #14
          Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
          I do hope you're going to be paying some tax on all that cash your company is sitting on when you eventually buy your house.
          Getting 6 months rental - in March next year it will be BOGOF kind of house deals, that will be tidy

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            #15
            Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View Post
            You have to tip for everything and 20% is expected.
            MF does not do any tipping (apart from flytipping) and he has not lost any weight over it

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