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Old 10-07-18, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by rydabent
And when you buy that $15,000 bike, you will also pay around $1000 in sales tax!!!!
YMMV. No sales tax where I live. Still never paid more than $620 for a bike.
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I paid 325 quid for a steel 21speed mountain bike when a studio flat/apartment cost 14,000.

15yrs later, thanks to our worst prime minister in history Tony Blair, the same flat was now worth 120,000.
thankfully though, an identical bike was now still within the reach of the working class - costing less than it's original 325 quid.
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MikeyMK , is the entire country under rent controls and Blair removed the controls?
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Originally Posted by MikeyMK
I paid 325 quid for a steel 21speed mountain bike when a studio flat/apartment cost 14,000.

15yrs later, thanks to our worst prime minister in history Tony Blair, the same flat was now worth 120,000.
thankfully though, an identical bike was now still within the reach of the working class - costing less than it's original 325 quid.
rent went up almost 1000% in a decade and a half?
brutal. thats some tough decision making- should i stay or should i go?
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