I suppose that in the past year or so I have written a lot about the good things living over here. But there are of course frustrations that I feel. At the moment, there are a couple of residual things in the UK that are just a touch frustrating.
Firstly, my beautiful park view house is still empty, two months after the tenants moved out. This is not a disaster financially (though obviously isn't good). It's just a frustration that it sits there being so unloved when it is such a loveable home! My letting agent did find a set of tenants, however when one of them calls themselves self-employed when they are really on benefits, it really doesn't help. Hopefully the place will be let soon though.
Secondly my student loan fees have been re-assessed. Nothing new in this. But the exchange rate doesn't help me any more. The result is an 80% increase in the fees that I have to pay now. I did expect it to go up, perhaps by 20% because, well, my salary went up 15%. But to almost double? Not really fair! Still, I guess I am better paying it off whilst interest rates remain quite low.
Mind you, at least I'm not complaining about 20% VAT rates... and my pay did go up by 15%, which is 15% more than it would have gone up by in the UK... so perhaps I should just 'zip it'.
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