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Originally Posted by TORTOISE
yea the problem was thou webby ...was that they asked how l managed to live etc etc....income etc etc.
I do know something that is under wraps at the moment for any UK guys here on the board,its that the goverment is planning on taking away your right to free health care etc if you are out the country for more than 6 months....I guess the reason for this is that a lot of people go live in florida for example then if they need anything they fly back to the UK to get it free.
This is all hush-hush at the moment ,saw a program on it but it seems the goverment is making no comments or statements regarding it ..l guess it could affect a few million people .
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Hi Tortoise - Yea.. understand! :-) And... what had it got to do with them how you earned your living money?? :-) As long as it was not from, in your instance, the UK - it's none of their biz :-) Noisy!! Got two friends who lived out of the UK - the same happened with them, but they just gave "evidence" that they genuinely were not living in the UK and that blanked all other questions. There is no tax applicable.
Yea can see them trying the reduced health one! ;-) They can't be relied on for shit.
On the flip-side of the coin... when ya consider you can pay for healthcare in many countries and that is far cheaper than any EU (or US) stuff, it takes the value out of "free healthcare". Simple example, one US person who decided to move out of the US where he was used to paying stupid money for healthcare.. he needed an op and got this free here. There is no discussion about insurance and payment - if someone needs medical attention they get it - and without waiting in a queue :-) After that, he went and paid the full amount to cover his family of four. This cost him just under $250/year to include *all* healthcare, dentistry, scripts blah. He could not believe he could get this standard of healthcare for the money :-)
BTW.. Why the hell did you want to go back?? :-) I've never met anyone yet who wanted to go back to their home countries other than to see family for visits.
PS I remember doing an "audit" in a bar of a load of ex-pats and asking - who wants to eventually move back home? Hell.. there was silence and looking at each other thinking I was raving mad to even mention it!
