Many Parts Of Britain Are Worst-Off Places In Europe

5th May 2014


Yet they still keep coming.

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Parts of Britain are now poorer than Poland, Lithuania and Hungary, official figures reveal.

People in the Welsh Valleys and Cornwall - Britain’s two poorest areas - scrape by on less than £14,300 a year on average.

Because Britain is so expensive, this leaves families in these areas worse off than those vast swathes of Eastern Europe, according to an EU study.

In Lincolnshire and Durham, the next two poorest areas in Britain, people live on less than £16,500 a year.

This puts them in the same bracket as Estonians and rural Poles, once prices are taken into account.

Britain as a whole fares a little better, with average earnings of £23,300 - just over the EU average of £20,750. But this still leaves us out of the top 10 wealthiest countries in the EU.




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If all of us Pensioners moved to Poland ect we would still be paid our pensions and compared to the natives we'd be rich, they'd have to house as well, I think.

nicko wrote:If all of us Pensioners moved to Poland ect we would still be paid our pensions and compared to the natives we'd be rich, they'd have to house as well,  I think.

I don't think you'd get housing, but I did toy with the idea of moving to another country in Europe before I moved here. You could buy a nice house with a bit of land in countries like Bulgaria for a few thousand. Your British pension alone would let you live a reasonable standard of life there because everything's so cheap in comparison.