{"id":7443,"date":"2022-09-04T20:31:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T18:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2022-09-05T21:58:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T19:58:32","slug":"thinking-about-moving-to-the-uk-think-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/thinking-about-moving-to-the-uk-think-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about moving to the UK? Think again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Update: Advice to Russians (to anybody!) thinking about moving to the UK<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: 4 September 2022 ~ Thinking about moving to the UK? Think again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This post is an addendum to, or update of, four posts I wrote earlier advising Russians on what to expect should they ever contemplate the possibility of emigrating to the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#c8b1b7;color:#9c2128\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#070707\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Previous posts<\/strong> <strong>for Russians contemplating a life in the UK<\/strong><\/mark><br><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/advice-for-russians-emigrating-to-uk\/\" title=\"Advice for Russians Emigrating to UK\">Advice for Russians Emigrating to UK<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/advice-for-russians-moving-to-the-uk\/\" title=\"Advice for Russians Moving to the UK\">Advice for Russians Moving to the UK<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/russians-moving-to-london-costs\/\" title=\"Russians moving to London: Costs\">Russians moving to London: Costs<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/for-russians-moving-to-uk-towns-not-london\/\" title=\"For Russians Moving to UK Towns not London\">For Russians Moving to UK Towns not London<\/a><\/mark><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">My advice today is simple: Don\u2019t!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">You may think that \u2018Don\u2019t!\u2019 derives from the Russophobic situation that is sweeping across the West faster than coronavirus leaked from a US weapons lab, but the proliferation of anti-Russian sentiment is small potatoes, chicken feed, compared to the calamitous financial mess with which the UK is engulfed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The extent of this crisis, if not its far-reaching societal consequences, can be ascertained from a simple experiment. Go to Googlenews.co.uk and in the search window key in each of the following search terms in succession and see what they bring up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>UK cost of living soars<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>UK standard of living falls<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>UK house prices rocketing<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Here are five randomly selected media articles pertaining to each of the search categories (as of 24 August 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><span style=\"color:#a30005\" class=\"has-inline-color\">UK cost of living soars<\/span><br>UK inflation hits 10.1% in new 40-year high as cost-of-living crisis continues to soar<\/strong><br><br><strong>\u2018A tragedy\u2019: Britain\u2019s cost-of-living crisis worsens as rents soar and energy bills top $5,000<br><\/strong><br><strong>Cost of living crisis: Wages plunge at record pace as bills soar<\/strong><br><br><strong>Mother-of-four says \u2018every day is a struggle\u2019 as cost of living soars<\/strong><br><br><strong>Cost-of-living payments branded insufficient as energy bills soar<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><span style=\"color:#a30005\" class=\"has-inline-color\">UK standard of living falls<\/span><br>UK living standards \u2018to fall at fastest rate since mid-1950s\u2019<\/strong><br><br><strong>UK faces worst drop in living standards since 1970s, economists warn<\/strong><br><br><strong>Brits told to brace themselves for worst standard of living since records began<\/strong><br><br><strong>UK faces long recession and deepest plunge in living standards on record, Bank of England warns<\/strong><br><br><strong>Britain, a services superpower sinking into stagnation<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><span style=\"color:#a30005\" class=\"has-inline-color\">UK house prices rocketing<\/span><br>UK house prices rise at 11% annual rate despite cost-of-living crisis<\/strong><br><br><strong>UK house prices set to rise even higher despite a 36% decline in buyer demand, experts say<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Postal districts around the Olympic Park see house prices increase as much as \u00a3537k over ten years<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>UK house prices rise at the fastest rate for 18 years<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>UK builder Bellway reports record revenue as house prices climb<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As you can see from the randomly selected online headlines, cost of living in the UK is soaring, the standard of living is in decline and yet, against this backdrop of misery and woe, house prices are rocketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Discard immediately any reports that you read in the UK media that house prices are \u2018slowing\u2019 or that there is a \u2018correction\u2019 in the housing market. Statements of this nature appear periodically in the UK press, every six months or less, but by the time you have digested them house prices are off again, climbing that fateful ladder from which the only way down is rapid and fatal. It is interesting to note in this respect that, as Sherlock Holmes would say, \u2018The game is afoot\u2019. In the last three days UK media, with nothing new on the coronavirus front to bluster about and the British public&#8217;s Twitter-afflicted attention span no longer able to focus on Ukraine, has turned to startling prophesies of an impending crash in the housing market to provide my fellow Brits with the crisis fix they crave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Whatever they tell you, the fact remains that cost of living is up; standard of living is down; and buying a house in the UK is out of reach for most people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To understand the mechanism by which the catastrophic gulf between cost of living, standard of living and artificially inflated house prices have come about in the UK, you need to turn the clock back to a time that several generations of Britons were born too late to know. In this era, which was a continuation of hundreds of years of history, homes, as the word implies, were houses where people lived, typically for the entirety of their lives and for generations of a family\u2019s descendants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The key word in this scenario is \u2018home\u2019, since that is what houses had always been and were, homes, and to a large extent they remained as such until the Thatcherite era of the 1980s, when houses ceased to be homes and became instead a speculative commodity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In the 1980s under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Thatcherism, as it became to be known, was turbo-charged capitalism. Faced with no other way of shoring up the country\u2019s coffers, plundered and sacked as usual by the outgoing Labour government, Maggie had no alternative but to sell off the \u2018family silver\u2019, privatising everything in sight (well, almost). In her zeal to mobilise the country\u2019s economy<sup>1<\/sup>, she sacrificed the right, the historic right, to a stable family home, by turning houses into a make-money-quick scheme. Instead of a home for life, houses became speculative investments to buy for profit, not to live in. The nation became obsessed, first by the aspirant desire to join the ranks of owner occupiers and then, like them, to make money from their acquisition. This obsession continues today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" data-attachment-id=\"7484\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/thinking-about-moving-to-the-uk-think-again\/downsized-house-in-uk-rz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsized-house-in-UK-rz.jpg?fit=630%2C840&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"630,840\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Downsized house in UK\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;An Englishman&amp;#8217;s home is no longer his castle&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;An Englishman&amp;#8217;s home is no longer his castle&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsized-house-in-UK-rz.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsized-house-in-UK-rz.jpg?fit=625%2C833&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsized-house-in-UK-rz.jpg?resize=625%2C833&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Downsizing in the UK \" class=\"wp-image-7484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsized-house-in-UK-rz.jpg?w=630&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsized-house-in-UK-rz.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsized-house-in-UK-rz.jpg?resize=624%2C832&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsized-house-in-UK-rz.jpg?resize=18%2C24&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsized-house-in-UK-rz.jpg?resize=27%2C36&amp;ssl=1 27w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsized-house-in-UK-rz.jpg?resize=36%2C48&amp;ssl=1 36w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#0c0d0d\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Looks like an Englishman&#8217;s home is no longer his castle<\/strong><\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&nbsp;As part of her grand plan, Maggie also introduced the Right to Buy, a housing act giving tenants of local authority housing (council houses), the right to buy their \u2018home\u2019. This programme of apparent social mobility, which had the soon-to-become socialist dinosaurs breathing fire and brimstone, was all well and good as long as \u2018home\u2019 and \u2018right to buy\u2019 appeared in the same sentence. But it didn\u2019t quite work that way. A good many social housing converts had no sooner bought their \u2018home\u2019 than, following the lead of legacy homeowners, they were selling them on for a profit. An Englishman\u2019s home was no longer his castle, it was a rapid succession of cash cows: sell the house, buy another house, use the cash from the sale of the first property to develop the new house. Invariably, however, there was never enough money from the sale of the first property to entirely fund the second, so in order to make up the shortfall, it was cap in hand and off to the bank for a mortgage. Did you hear the sound of thunder off-stage! As any seasoned Monopoly player will tell you, once the mortgaging starts for many the game is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The immoral transformation of home to commodity, which would re-energise the wealth and social aspirations of a generation of Brits during the Thatcher years who, let\u2019s face it, had been \u2018shat upon\u2019 by Labour, rapidly gained traction in the UK and has steamrolled ever since. It gave \u2018ordinary people\u2019 the chance to make what they saw as mega bucks by buying properties, knobbing them up, living in them until they felt the time was right and then swiftly selling them on. In all fairness some of these latter day quick-profit speculators did make money, some, a minority, made a fortune. Very few had a home. My boss bought and sold the houses in which he and his family lived so many times in succession that his son once tellingly remarked that he had no idea what a proper home was! But whilst \u2018your average punter\u2019 was sweating and toiling away to keep up with his relocating neighbours, those who made the lion\u2019s share and are coining it in still, were and are ~ surprise, surprise ~ property developers, bankers and financiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">By the time \u2018our Tony\u2019, Tony Blair, arrived on the scene, the die had been cast. Not since Al Capone had built a criminal empire on the back of prohibition had one so young been better positioned to re-align a political party, adopt and adapt the housing boom template and make, by all accounts, a tidy profit in the process<sup>4<\/sup> whilst driving the country into debt, more debt, greater debt, desperation and moral depredation. The old rank and file socialists, what\u2019s left of them, must, when they look back on Blaire\u2019s stewardship of the country, hear the ghostly voice of Val Doonican singing \u201cIf I knew then what I know now\u201d (Sorry, what\u2019s that you say? You\u2019ve got all his LPs?), for Tony\u2019s New Labour was, and is ~ as we all know now ~ no longer Labour at all but the New globalist-oriented Liberal-Lefty party<sup>2<\/sup>, a syndicated branch of the Davos Globalist Cartel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Not content with flooding the country with unwanted immigrants, all of whom needed housing of their own (funny, that!), Tony threw himself body and ~ well, we won\u2019t say soul ~ behind the housing boom, making in the process, so it is alleged, a pretty penny or two for himself whilst subjecting the nation to fictitious wealth, unrelenting debt and eventual penury<sup>3<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"397\" data-attachment-id=\"7483\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/thinking-about-moving-to-the-uk-think-again\/muggers-credit-card-rz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Muggers-Credit-Card-rz.png?fit=1200%2C762&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,762\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Muggers Credit Card\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Credit cards were two a penny in Blaire&amp;#8217;s day&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Muggers-Credit-Card-rz.png?fit=300%2C191&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Muggers-Credit-Card-rz.png?fit=625%2C397&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Muggers-Credit-Card-rz.png?resize=625%2C397&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Thinking about moving to the UK? Think again! It's all credit cards, loans and debt!\" class=\"wp-image-7483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Muggers-Credit-Card-rz.png?resize=1024%2C650&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Muggers-Credit-Card-rz.png?resize=300%2C191&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Muggers-Credit-Card-rz.png?resize=768%2C488&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Muggers-Credit-Card-rz.png?resize=624%2C396&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Muggers-Credit-Card-rz.png?resize=24%2C15&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Muggers-Credit-Card-rz.png?resize=36%2C23&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Muggers-Credit-Card-rz.png?resize=48%2C30&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Muggers-Credit-Card-rz.png?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Under Blairism, loans and credit cards were floating around like confetti at a wedding of 85 genders. It was all aboard the unsecured loans, unaffordable mortgages, credit cards bandwagon and nobody seemed to realise ~ or if they did, they did not care as long as they might make money ~ that the final destination would be Debt. Irrefusable offers and multiple invitations to climb aboard the credit bandwagon dropped through Britain\u2019s letter boxes in such monstrous egalitarian profusion that they almost outdid <em>Reader\u2019s Digest<\/em> in their contribution to the junk mail mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Today, whilst most Britons feel like door mats for the political elite to wipe their mucky boots on, at least their own door mats are virtually free of offers which they should never have not refused. With the goose no longer laying the golden egg of unlimited loans, the days of making a \u2018fast buck\u2019 on your home, whilst not entirely over, is fraught with pitfalls. Now, the only way for ordinary folk to claw back a little money from their property is to sell and move into a shoe box. This symptom of desperation, the practice of fleeing to a smaller home, relies on the buzzword \u2018downsizing\u2019 to sugar coat the pill, but people do it, and more and more, because moving into a smaller and less desirable property is practically the only way of keeping the bailiffs from the door and, in the process, with a good back wind, to extricate yourself from your incumbent children who, since they cannot afford a mortgage themselves, could otherwise be living with you until they receive that telegram from the Queen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" data-attachment-id=\"7479\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/thinking-about-moving-to-the-uk-think-again\/downsizing-is-so-popular-rz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsizing-is-so-popular-rz.png?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Downsizing in UK  is so popular\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Downsizing in UK: moving from a house into a shoe box&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsizing-is-so-popular-rz.png?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsizing-is-so-popular-rz.png?fit=625%2C417&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsizing-is-so-popular-rz.png?resize=625%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Moving to the UK where downsizing is popular\" class=\"wp-image-7479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsizing-is-so-popular-rz.png?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsizing-is-so-popular-rz.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsizing-is-so-popular-rz.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsizing-is-so-popular-rz.png?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsizing-is-so-popular-rz.png?resize=24%2C16&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsizing-is-so-popular-rz.png?resize=36%2C24&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsizing-is-so-popular-rz.png?resize=48%2C32&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Downsizing-is-so-popular-rz.png?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">By divvying up the dosh from the sale of your former and better property, your cherished family home, you might just be able to give your children the amount of wonga required to meet the mortgage deposit demanded by the bank. This down payment (and \u2018down\u2019 is the word to note), should ensure that yet another generation signs its precious life away to the mortgage devil. Don\u2019t worry, the bank will help you. It\u2019s skilled in the art of having your leg up onto the property treadmill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Do I mean \u2018the property ladder\u2019? No, I meant what I said. For a 25-year mortgage is a sure and certain way of condemning yourself to a job in which you dare not rock the boat or dive overboard even if your sanity depends upon it, because you are chained to that monthly mortgage payment, and if you cannot afford to stump up the money every month on the dot you are going to lose your house, which means you are going to lose your home. As it says in the small print of every mortgage contract (always read the small print), \u2018if you cannot keep up payments on your mortgage you are liable to lose your \u2018home\u2019 ~ that\u2019s right \u2018your home\u2019: the threat could not be more explicit ~ Got you, wage slave!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">However, just because the majority of folk in the UK are no longer making lots of wonga on playing the property game, it does not mean that everyone is in the same leaky boat. This is because not everyone is a wage slave ~ most are, but not everyone. Inflated house prices, big-big mortgages, high-interest loans and revolving credit is just about the only thing that keeps the UK afloat, the definition of what constitutes the UK restricted to bankers, financiers, politicians and moneyed elites. The gilded members of this UK, a club that only the few belong to, have been living it up, metaphorically and actually, on their luxury yachts for years and only now are beginning to wonder if the collective term for their privileged buoyancy is spelt the same as Titanic. It\u2019s almost time to look for the lifeboats, which for many won\u2019t be there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thinking about moving to the UK? Think again!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">For the majority of ordinary Brits, keeping one\u2019s head above water is difficult enough. It is widely recognised that given their track record Britain\u2019s politicians couldn\u2019t save a drowning man in a back garden paddling pool, let alone provide adequate lifeboats to save the nation. But the economic situation has become so tragic that most Britons would willingly settle for a half share in a snorkel, if only they could afford one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In this tragi-financial-comedy, every time the victims of artificially inflated house prices take on a mortgage it offers the same security as flipping a coin. But no matter which side up the coin lands, for the political-legal-banker cartel the outcome is always a winner. These are they who are literally coining it in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Vital Statistics<\/strong><br><strong>Deposit:<\/strong> At least 5% of the cost of the house you would like to purchase. If you are a first-time buyer, most banks will expect potential buyers to pay a 10% deposit<br><br><strong>Average cost of a house in the UK: <\/strong>As of May 2022, the average UK house price was approximately \u00a3280,000 which represents an average increase of \u00a330,000 in a 12-month period<br><br><strong>Predicted rise in utility bills in UK end of 2022<\/strong>: Energy prices are forecast to more than double in the 12-month period ending 2022. Some sources suggest that energy prices will exceed \u00a35000 by the end of 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br>Making much about house prices is a justifiable exposition when it comes to laying bare the problems of living in Britain. It is not by far the only cross that Britons have to bear when it comes to making ends meet, but when all is said and done housing is the big one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As I noted in my earlier posts, whilst keeping up mortgage payments on your home will devour at least half of your monthly income, what\u2019s left of it will be gobbled up by utility bills and council tax. As for those other \u2018necessities\u2019 ~ contents&#8217; and buildings&#8217; insurance, the cost of running a motor vehicle or two (including petrol costs), internet connection bills, credit card payments \u2026 let\u2019s not go there! But do remember to bear them in mind!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"828\" data-attachment-id=\"7480\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/thinking-about-moving-to-the-uk-think-again\/britons-worry-about-energy-bills-rz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-Worry-about-energy-bills-rz.jpg?fit=600%2C828&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,828\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Britons Worry about energy bills\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Britons energy bills cost of living surges in UK&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-Worry-about-energy-bills-rz.jpg?fit=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-Worry-about-energy-bills-rz.jpg?fit=600%2C828&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-Worry-about-energy-bills-rz.jpg?resize=600%2C828&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Energy bills in the UK are astronomical!\" class=\"wp-image-7480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-Worry-about-energy-bills-rz.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-Worry-about-energy-bills-rz.jpg?resize=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1 217w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-Worry-about-energy-bills-rz.jpg?resize=17%2C24&amp;ssl=1 17w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-Worry-about-energy-bills-rz.jpg?resize=26%2C36&amp;ssl=1 26w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-Worry-about-energy-bills-rz.jpg?resize=35%2C48&amp;ssl=1 35w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In the pecking order of daylight robbery, after burglary by mortgage comes mugging by utility bills: always a dreaded spectre; now they are downright terrifying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">How convincingly the meteoric rise in gas and electricity prices can be attributed to the UK establishment\u2019s wanton participation in the United States\u2019 criminal Ukraine adventure is debateable. Unlike Europe that relies for its comfortable existence on Russian gas, it is claimed that Britain only has a 5% reliance stake in gas from Russia. Be this as it may, it doesn\u2019t help any when you are a small country devoid of natural resources to turn your suppliers into your enemy just to please a collapsing United States and to indulge Liz Truss\u2019s make believe that she is Margaret Thatcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There are, in fact, a number of interlocking issues that explain why the British public are being hit with gargantuan utility bills: historic bad management of the economy is one of them; the other is the bogus alternative energy argument, which is the alternative energy industry; and the other, of course, is Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Russians dun it<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Citing Russia\u2019s special operation in Ukraine as a reason for old age pensioners freezing to death in energy-starved Britland this winter, is part of western governments\u2019, and therefore western media&#8217;s, shaky mainstream narrative. At the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, western leaders actively exhorted the easily-manipulated British public to invite a Ukrainian refugee into their country, even into their homes, orating in glowing terms of how humanitarian crises in far-flung distant lands were infinitely more important than selfish preoccupations such as keeping warm in winter, keeping the lights on at home and keeping yourself from fainting with shock when you pay for your fuel at the filling station. But such gung-ho noble sentiments whilst entertaining in summer tend to lose their ennobling appeal as the icy blasts of winter gather upon the horizon of the western hemisphere. And it is no consolation that whilst the majority of Britons will be rubbing their hands together in an attempt to generate warmth, a small and privileged minority, viz the CEOs of utility companies, will be rubbing theirs and each other\u2019s for entirely different reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Western politicians and the media with which they collude are keen to sell the line to the British public that the Ukraine conflict is driving up the global gas price as traders are concerned that they may not have access to Russian gas in the future, whilst carefully omitting that the reason why Brits will go cold, broke or possibly both this winter is a direct consequence of US globalist ambition. The US-led western collective\u2019s attempt to crush the Russian economy and destabilise the country by imposing sanction after sanction on it and perpetuating the Ukraine conflict by throwing public money away on arms shipments has barely dented Russia but has subjected the British populace to energy and standard-of-living impoverishment barely known in the UK since old man Labour was last in power. Come on liberal lefties! What about the NHS and the escalating energy bills! Get out those banners and riot around the streets!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Another thing that is rarely mentioned, if ever, is that the renewable energy industry, which has long been touted as the answer to the Earth maiden\u2019s prayer, is full of rapacious snake oil salesmen. The suspicion that renewable energy is a complete fraud is echoed and substantiated by socio-political experts around the world, who agree that inordinate amounts of tax-payers money is siphoned off each year to fund futile renewable energy projects at the expense of energy security<sup>5<\/sup>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Most UK politicians do not want to hear this, and the Greens are having a shit fit! How dare renewable energy be exposed for the fraud that it is!<sup>6<\/sup> Goodness knows what they, the Greens, are going to do this winter to keep warm. Downsize into the smallest shoe box imaginable, put on a couple of extra anoraks and get their live-in Ukrainian to pump the bellows around the candle? Mind you, the cabbage-brained Greens are so adept at producing hot air about the so-called iniquities of those on the right (and usually in the right) of politics and trumpeting loud and long about bizarre, unworkable loony-left policies that they could keep the entire country warm by the laughter that they generate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But is it a laughing matter (snigger)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"762\" data-attachment-id=\"7482\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/thinking-about-moving-to-the-uk-think-again\/britons-shivering-in-winter-rz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-shivering-in-winter-rz.jpg?fit=600%2C762&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,762\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Britons shivering in winter\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;British people shiver in winter as they cannot afford to pay their energy bills&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-shivering-in-winter-rz.jpg?fit=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-shivering-in-winter-rz.jpg?fit=600%2C762&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-shivering-in-winter-rz.jpg?resize=600%2C762&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Thinking about moving to the UK? Think again! No energy and freezing!\" class=\"wp-image-7482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-shivering-in-winter-rz.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-shivering-in-winter-rz.jpg?resize=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1 236w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-shivering-in-winter-rz.jpg?resize=19%2C24&amp;ssl=1 19w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-shivering-in-winter-rz.jpg?resize=28%2C36&amp;ssl=1 28w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Britons-shivering-in-winter-rz.jpg?resize=38%2C48&amp;ssl=1 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>British people shiver in winter as they cannot afford to pay their energy bills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The UK is often cited as a country that no longer makes things or produces anything. It is a funny little place that pushes funny money around on computer screens in banks, loan shark offices, credit card companies and in one of the biggest gambling houses in the world (although the news on the street is that even this is losing its edge to foreign competition) the London Stock Exchange (see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qx2ZTZUnCDA\" title=\"Charlie Richardson and the British Mafia\">Charlie Richardson and the British Mafia<\/a>). Inflating house prices and concreting over the countryside with little unattractive, unimaginative red-brick boxes badly built and not worth a quarter of the money that they are \u2018valued\u2019 at is the UK\u2019s financial equivalent of The Last Chance Saloon. \u2018Britain needs more houses\u2019 is as facile and environmentally catastrophic as Britain needs more immigrants is suicidal, but old slogans, like old habits, die hard, especially when they serve the self-serving interests of the country\u2019s corporate carpetbaggers and its slippery liberal politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The UK is also a country that allows (did I hear you say \u2018encourages\u2019?), a monthly tsunami of illegal immigrants from all corners of the third world; thousands upon thousands of freeloaders whose social security benefits, hotel bills, translator and interpreter fees, housing costs ~ the list goes on ~ comes out every pocket of every working British citizen in his, her or its taxes, just so liberal lefty can say, \u201cHello Sammy from Bongoland, aren\u2019t we kind and tolerant!\u201d&nbsp; The only reason that this silly country, the UK, is not a silly bankrupt country is that as soon as the going gets tough, those at the top of the very pointy pyramid simply print more money, as they did when tipped the wink by the WHO that coronavirus was the perfect excuse for doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thinking about moving to the UK? Think again!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I am not going to expatiate on the auxiliary costs of living in the UK and the reason why The Smiths&#8217; lyrics, \u201cI was looking for a job and then I found a job and heaven knows I\u2019m miserable now!\u201d is so applicable to modern UK life. Suffice it to say, and we\u2019ve all been there, that once you\u2019ve got that job that took six months, 100 application letters and almost as many interviews to get, you soon learn, usually the day after the euphoria dies, that it will never pay enough to keep your head above water: cue credit cards, sequential loans and very happy financiers. It\u2019s not long before you hate that job. In fact, you loathe and detest it. All that shit from your employers and those awful people with whom you have to work, who, if you saw them coming towards you in the street, you\u2019d quickly cross the road to avoid. But you are trapped: your mortgage depends on your salary, and in an overpriced, under-governed and horribly overcrowded country where hundreds of people chase every job, you have no other option but to stay put and endure it, no matter how desperately skint you are and how tragically miserable your life has become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Apart from this, living in the UK is bad (at last whilst the liberal-lefty globalists are in charge). Why would you want to live there? Why would you want to go there? This post has discussed the positives, next we\u2019ll expose the negatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Man the lifeboats! What am I saying!!! \u2018Its and Others first!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Footnote: <\/strong>See reference 3 below. In this article published in 2015, the author writes:<br>&#8220;It is crucial that the next government introduce detailed, workable and effective measures to boost housing supply across the country.&#8221;  That&#8217;s the UK for you! All they can think of is &#8216;build more houses&#8217; Like unlimited immigration, where, or rather how, will it all end?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><br>1.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUS120413522020130410\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUS120413522020130410<\/a><br>2.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/254356162_Globalisation_and_public_policy_under_New_Labour\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/254356162_Globalisation_and_public_policy_under_New_Labour<\/a> <br>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/general-election-2015-how-tony-blair-presided-over-biggest-rise-house-prices-history\/\">https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/general-election-2015-how-tony-blair-presided-over-biggest-rise-house-prices-history\/<\/a> <br>4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/housing-network\/2016\/mar\/18\/tony-blair-profiting-housing-crisis-investment-property?CMP=twt_gu\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/housing-network\/2016\/mar\/18\/tony-blair-profiting-housing-crisis-investment-property?CMP=twt_gu<\/a><br>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netzerowatch.com\/why-the-renewable-energy-industry-is-mostly-a-scam\/\">https:\/\/www.netzerowatch.com\/why-the-renewable-energy-industry-is-mostly-a-scam\/<\/a><br>6. <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthesethings.com\/2020\/05\/27\/green-left-furious-at-michael-moore-for-exposing-renewable-energy-as-complete-fraud\/\">https:\/\/stopthesethings.com\/2020\/05\/27\/green-left-furious-at-michael-moore-for-exposing-renewable-energy-as-complete-fraud\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Copyright \u00a9 2018-2022 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image attributions:<\/strong> <br>Sunk boat: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.needpix.com\/photo\/1343217\/\">https:\/\/www.needpix.com\/photo\/1343217\/<\/a> [author: Darren Lewis&nbsp;(publicdomainpictures.net)]<br>Credit card: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.needpix.com\/photo\/27375\/\">https:\/\/www.needpix.com\/photo\/27375\/<\/a><br>Shoe box: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.needpix.com\/photo\/1536959\/\">https:\/\/www.needpix.com\/photo\/1536959\/<\/a> [author: George Hodan&nbsp;(publicdomainpictures.net)]<br>Man with bill: <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Man-worried-about-the-bill-vector\/2313.html\">https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Man-worried-about-the-bill-vector\/2313.html<\/a><br>Freezing man: <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Freezing-man\/73316.html\">https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Freezing-man\/73316.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Advice to Russians (to anybody!) thinking about moving to the UK Published: 4 September 2022 ~ Thinking about moving to the UK? Think again! This post is an addendum to, or update of, four posts I wrote earlier advising Russians on what to expect should they ever contemplate the possibility of emigrating to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[581,583,1990,1992,1991,1989,604,1988],"class_list":["post-7443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meanwhile-in-the-uk","tag-advice-for-russians-emigrating-to-uk","tag-advice-for-russians-moving-to-the-uk","tag-energy-costs-uk","tag-house-prices-uk","tag-mortgage-costs-uk","tag-moving-to-the-uk","tag-russians-moving-to-london-costs","tag-thinking-about-moving-to-the-uk-think-again"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/H.M.S-UK-rz.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2260,"url":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/advice-for-russians-emigrating-to-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":7443,"position":0},"title":"Advice for Russians Emigrating to UK","author":"Captain Codpiece","date":"24 \u0441\u0435\u043d\u0442\u044f\u0431\u0440\u044f, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"A warning to the Curious (apologies to Peter Vaughan) Updated: 12 March 2022 | Published: 24 September 2020 Warning!In response to Russia's special operation aimed at \u2018demilitarising and de-Nazifying Ukraine\u2019, the UK media has embarked upon and is actively pursuing an intensive propaganda programme which is resulting in widespread anti-Russian\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u0412 &quot;Meanwhile in the UK&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Meanwhile in the UK","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/category\/meanwhile-in-the-uk\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Caution-UK-Dangerous-1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Caution-UK-Dangerous-1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Caution-UK-Dangerous-1.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Caution-UK-Dangerous-1.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2275,"url":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/advice-for-russians-moving-to-the-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":7443,"position":1},"title":"Advice for Russians Moving to the UK","author":"Captain Codpiece","date":"29 \u0441\u0435\u043d\u0442\u044f\u0431\u0440\u044f, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"How it was for us ... Updated: 12 March 2022 | Published 29 September 2020 Warning! 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Now, you are probably wondering what I am doing standing in the English countryside wearing a Russian hat. 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