<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Osceola
Paul, consider that if you go to hospital in US, without the health insurance that costs each american family a huge portion of their earnings, for a broken arm you'd end up with a bill in the range of $30,000 to $50,000. Or that property taxes for a reasonably nice house of $300 thousand could be $6000 to 8000 a year. Or that you have to drive everywhere in the US so the cheaper petrol may not be so cheap after all. Or that once you are making decent money in the US that suddenly you find yourself in the 36% tax bracket! Or that even when you do have health insurance, suddenly the carrier just decides it doesn't want to cover your bills (yes, this happens more than you might realize). Did anyone see the article in the Orlando Sentinel about the young couple whose baby had some sort of respiratory problem and their medical bills are already in the MILLIONS of dollars! No, I don't see the wisdom in it and particularly for English people already at the "top of the social foodchain" to move to a place that is already 30-40 percent hispanic where you'd be one of the smallest of minorities.
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Not sure where you got your statistics from, but according to the US Census Bureau, estimates for 2005 put the percentage of hispanics at 14.4%. FL is somewhat higher at 19.5%. For health care, check out this article from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...040700882.html It put the cost of a broken arm without insurance at about $8000. Still high, but not quite $30,000 to $50,000. Also, not every place in the US has high property taxes. It is true that many northeastern states and Florida have high taxes. Our taxes on our FL home were $7,000 for the year, but our home in Alabama was only $290 for the year.
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