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Reasons to move to Wales? Well there's the healthcare,
the house prices, the...
Tom Peck weighs up the advantages of life on the other
side of Offa's Dyke
By Tom Peck
The Independent
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Possible tax advantages aside, just how alluring is life
beyond the Severn Bridge?
The healthcare is better, for a start. The NHS in Wales
spends more per person than in England, just over �2,000
compared with �1,900. Prescriptions are free, too, while
in England there is a �7.65 charge. This, and free
hospital parking, persuaded the picturesque village of
Audlem, nine miles from the Welsh border, to hold an
online referendum on whether to secede from England and
join Wales. Sixty per cent of residents voted yes. But
the picture is a little more complicated. That extra NHS
spending is forecast to finish by 2014. Wales also has
fewer GPs, slightly shorter life expectancies, and
patients visit hospital more often and stay longer.
Another factor in Wales's favour: cheaper housing. House
prices have fallen by �2,000 in the past year, to a
national average of �153,299. The average for the UK as a
whole is �238,293.
The country is also peppered with areas of outstanding
beauty. In January Swansea's Rhossili Bay was voted the
third-best beach in Europe on the travel website
Tripadvisor, beating competition from Greece and
Sardinia. The three-mile stretch of white sand on the
Gower Peninsula was the UK's top-rated destination.
The 870-mile-long All Wales Coast Path, a government
scheme costing �10m, was opened last year, running from
Chepstow in the south right the way around to Queensferry
in Flintshire. Its completion means Wales is the only
country in the world with a footpath covering its entire
coastline. Lonely Planet called the Welsh coastline "the
greatest region on Earth to visit" last year, ahead of
some of the world's most famous destinations.
"What a wonderful thing: to walk the entire length of a
country's coastline, to trace its every nook, cranny,
cliff-face, indent and estuary," the Lonely Planet writer
Sarah Baxter said. "How better to truly appreciate the
shape � and soul � of a nation?"
In Llandudno the footpath passes the Lauriston Court
Hotel, where a room costs only �35 a night and which
topped a recent poll to find the best hotel service in
the world. Its proprietors, Carol-Lynn and Ian Robbins,
are rather better versed in good manners than the
television presenter Anne Robinson, who was forced to
make a public apology to the entire Welsh nation after
branding its inhabitants "irritating and annoying".
"What are they for?" she asked Paul Merton, when she
appeared on the television show Room 101. "They are
always so pleased with themselves."
In 1998 the Sunday Times television critic called the
Welsh "loquacious dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted,
bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls". But then
he has been just as unkind about England's "lumpen and
louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd".
There are some more official warning signs that the grass
is not always greener in the valleys. The Office for
National Statistics' annual wellbeing report found more
unhappiness in Wales than anywhere else in the UK. More
than a quarter � 25.3 per cent � of Welsh people gave a
low rating for "life satisfaction", compared with 24.3
per cent in England, 22.6 per cent Scotland and 21.6 per
cent in Northern Ireland.
Coast to coast: How England and Wales compare
Continues at:
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the house prices, the...
Tom Peck weighs up the advantages of life on the other
side of Offa's Dyke
By Tom Peck
The Independent
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Possible tax advantages aside, just how alluring is life
beyond the Severn Bridge?
The healthcare is better, for a start. The NHS in Wales
spends more per person than in England, just over �2,000
compared with �1,900. Prescriptions are free, too, while
in England there is a �7.65 charge. This, and free
hospital parking, persuaded the picturesque village of
Audlem, nine miles from the Welsh border, to hold an
online referendum on whether to secede from England and
join Wales. Sixty per cent of residents voted yes. But
the picture is a little more complicated. That extra NHS
spending is forecast to finish by 2014. Wales also has
fewer GPs, slightly shorter life expectancies, and
patients visit hospital more often and stay longer.
Another factor in Wales's favour: cheaper housing. House
prices have fallen by �2,000 in the past year, to a
national average of �153,299. The average for the UK as a
whole is �238,293.
The country is also peppered with areas of outstanding
beauty. In January Swansea's Rhossili Bay was voted the
third-best beach in Europe on the travel website
Tripadvisor, beating competition from Greece and
Sardinia. The three-mile stretch of white sand on the
Gower Peninsula was the UK's top-rated destination.
The 870-mile-long All Wales Coast Path, a government
scheme costing �10m, was opened last year, running from
Chepstow in the south right the way around to Queensferry
in Flintshire. Its completion means Wales is the only
country in the world with a footpath covering its entire
coastline. Lonely Planet called the Welsh coastline "the
greatest region on Earth to visit" last year, ahead of
some of the world's most famous destinations.
"What a wonderful thing: to walk the entire length of a
country's coastline, to trace its every nook, cranny,
cliff-face, indent and estuary," the Lonely Planet writer
Sarah Baxter said. "How better to truly appreciate the
shape � and soul � of a nation?"
In Llandudno the footpath passes the Lauriston Court
Hotel, where a room costs only �35 a night and which
topped a recent poll to find the best hotel service in
the world. Its proprietors, Carol-Lynn and Ian Robbins,
are rather better versed in good manners than the
television presenter Anne Robinson, who was forced to
make a public apology to the entire Welsh nation after
branding its inhabitants "irritating and annoying".
"What are they for?" she asked Paul Merton, when she
appeared on the television show Room 101. "They are
always so pleased with themselves."
In 1998 the Sunday Times television critic called the
Welsh "loquacious dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted,
bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls". But then
he has been just as unkind about England's "lumpen and
louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd".
There are some more official warning signs that the grass
is not always greener in the valleys. The Office for
National Statistics' annual wellbeing report found more
unhappiness in Wales than anywhere else in the UK. More
than a quarter � 25.3 per cent � of Welsh people gave a
low rating for "life satisfaction", compared with 24.3
per cent in England, 22.6 per cent Scotland and 21.6 per
cent in Northern Ireland.
Coast to coast: How England and Wales compare
Continues at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/reasons-to-move-to-wales-well-theres--the-healthcare-the-house-prices-the-8508751.html
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:38:24 GMT, use...@mantra.com and/or
www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
>The healthcare is better, for a start. The NHS in Wales
>spends more per person than in England, just over �2,000
>compared with �1,900. Prescriptions are free, too, while
>in England there is a �7.65 charge. This, and free
>hospital parking, persuaded the picturesque village of
>Audlem, nine miles from the Welsh border, to hold an
>online referendum on whether to secede from England and
>join Wales. Sixty per cent of residents voted yes. But
>the picture is a little more complicated. That extra NHS
>spending is forecast to finish by 2014. Wales also has
>fewer GPs, slightly shorter life expectancies, and
>patients visit hospital more often and stay longer.
so it costs more money to live less time....
www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
>The healthcare is better, for a start. The NHS in Wales
>spends more per person than in England, just over �2,000
>compared with �1,900. Prescriptions are free, too, while
>in England there is a �7.65 charge. This, and free
>hospital parking, persuaded the picturesque village of
>Audlem, nine miles from the Welsh border, to hold an
>online referendum on whether to secede from England and
>join Wales. Sixty per cent of residents voted yes. But
>the picture is a little more complicated. That extra NHS
>spending is forecast to finish by 2014. Wales also has
>fewer GPs, slightly shorter life expectancies, and
>patients visit hospital more often and stay longer.
which do you think is the better measure of a health system?
and then there are the subsidies from england...
it costs more money to get less medics...
is it perhaps infested with socialists?
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