Reply to: £23,000

[fullyautomatix]

Train journey costs in this country is a joke. It is supposed to be oiling the economic machinery and help growth but instead what we get are train companies in cahoots with each other, pricing tickets at two times the cost of a flight, train company directors pocketing massive bonuses ( bonii?), next to nothing investment on the infrastructure so the UK has the slowest trains and the oldest trains in Wetern Europe etc etc.

We need a proper riot to rid the country of this transportation con.

[threaded]

Does anyone else spend as much as I do on travel? Is this typical?

Do exotic Italian conveyances count?

[Sockpuppet]

If I paid 400 quid a week for a train from Leicester to London I’d be expecting Jim’ll Fix It seats, a well stocked wine cellar and attractive hostesses providing favours for gentlemen.

They had biscuits?

Edit: £341 was the actual cost so not as bad as I though. So only £18k. I could of done it for £202 if I went unwashed masses class but I liked to be able to sit down.

[Mich the Tester]

The train from Leicester to London was £400 a week.

If I paid 400 quid a week for a train from Leicester to London I’d be expecting Jim’ll Fix It seats, a well stocked wine cellar and attractive hostesses providing favours for gentlemen.

[Sockpuppet]

The train from Leicester to London was £400 a week.

That cost me £21k pa travelling without leaving the country However factored this into the daily rate so wasn't out of pocket.

Didn't last long. I moved to a site 3 miles from where I lived after the first 4 weeks but kept the increase

Boomed indeed.

[EternalOptimist]

23k

i am converting that into holidays, beer and paid time off

and my head is spinning. thats a lot of dosh

[cojak]

I was hitting 15k when I was in Switzerland many moons ago, but that was all in.

[Mich the Tester]

Return fair from Edinburgh (train) is about £240 - yes that's 2nd class. Flight is no much cheaper once you add additional costs at either airport.

That’s about the same price per mile as a 3 year old S-Class.

[EternalOptimist]

Sorry I thought that was the amount NAT paid to become mod.

get back to your admin, ball bag

[scooterscot]

It also helps (unless you are Mich) if this is directly chargeable (+VAT) to the client too, but that's another matter.

A couple of clients ago I was able to charge the end client, that was nice. Oh how I miss those days...

[Mich the Tester]

Does London qualify?

Return fair from Edinburgh (train) is about £240 - yes that's 2nd class. Flight is no much cheaper once you add additional costs at either airport.

That's a grand a month before you know it.

Bleeding bloody tuliping hell. You lot need a German invasion to make the railways more efficient.

[MarillionFan]

Sorry I thought that was the amount NAT paid to become mod.

[scooterscot]

Bloody hell. Been somewhere exotic?

Does London qualify?

Return fair from Edinburgh (train) is about £240 - yes that's 2nd class. Flight is no much cheaper once you add additional costs at either airport.

That's a grand a month before you know it.

[Mich the Tester]

You should try commuting to Moscow every week on flexible tickets and staying in 5* hotels. Definitely bumps the airmiles & amex rewards accounts.

It also helps (unless you are Mich) if this is directly chargeable (+VAT) to the client too, but that's another matter.

It’s alright. If I think I’m going to make so much profit I end up in the Dutch 52% tax scale, there’s always the Amstel Hotel.

[Moscow Mule]

You should try commuting to Moscow every week on flexible tickets and staying in 5* hotels. Definitely bumps the airmiles & amex rewards accounts.

It also helps (unless you are Mich) if this is directly chargeable (+VAT) to the client too, but that's another matter.