‘I left the UK to live in Germany – my commute now costs £29 a month’
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/left-uk-live-germany-commute-cheaper-3294573?fbclid=IwY2xjawFkqzhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdwTk9c-pGZ7eJ4OcX_SQXDQuoDL30S-4PIjKg5_C5Mrqoi7G3dg9RLBWw_aem_MrS4GTLBiQlDdo99PxzIPA
Posted by MoistSnow220
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Big surprise, public transportation is overpriced here.
Middle earners are flocking from the U.K. if they can. Don’t blame them either. All got back ache from propping up the country.
Until very recently, Arriva were owned by Germany’s Deutsche Bahn. I have absolutely no proof that they gouged the British public to subsidise their own public transport network, no sir… so if anyone wants to link to reputable reports confirming what we all suspect, go nuts, I won’t be the least bit surprised.
I just changed jobs to work from home. My commute is free, and no need to move counties.
A few years ago Germany had €9 monthly tickets which got you **unlimited** travel on buses and local trains, for a whole month. It was hugely popular. The estimated yearly cost if they made it permanent would have been around €10-12 billion euros, so a lot of money but very much affordable for a wealthy European country – and that cost would have gotten their citizens essentially free rail travel.
They didn’t extend the scheme in the end, but trains over there are still way more affordable than in the UK.
What is holding us back is political bravery and The Treasury, a hugely OP department which takes few numerate civil servants and turns them into miserly penny pinchers. If we injected £10 bn into the rail network every year you could bring down prices by maybe 80-90% (in comparison we spend £4 bn on migrant hotels a year lol).
Germans are always complaining about their dreadful trains. So great. Cheap and useless as opposed to expensive and useless
> In Munich, Gildersleve, who currently works as a data analyst, takes the S-Bahn for his commute
The S-Bahn in Munich is even worse in terms of reliability and punctuality than Southern and Southwestern, and that’s quite an achievement. But it is true that it’s much cheaper in Germany. I only pay about 23 euros a month because my employer covers half of my DE-Job-Ticket. Even at the full price of 49 eur, it’s still a lot cheaper.
Although it doesn’t change the fact that Deutsche Bahn fucking sucks.
I love how we have a huge immigration problem, housing problems, wage inequality and growth, we’re growing up with generations that either are nepo-babies or are homeless.. and everyone acts surprised when society is edging closer to collapse.
Britains is doomed, the Russians knee-capped us and even said it themselves “Britains on its knees and won’t stand up for decades”
Get out whilst you can
And here I am unable to find these magical, unicorn, fully remote jobs and having to pay almost £600 a month for a rail card…not a travel card This is just for one train to work, one train back.
I have gotten the train twice in the last 18 months.
By some grace of god…both days i went there was strikes and there was wide spread disruption.
In one i had to do half the journey on a bus (an even worse experience)
I will stick to my car thanks.
These cost articles when labour have just come to power when these are nothing new….
They pay more tax, are better educated, have more high skilled jobs in industry and are better paid. We are a poorly educated, entitled, low-skill society. We are miles off on every metric.
One big problem is the lack of integrated ticketing across the country.
If I want to get to my local train station by public transport, I have to catch a bus first, which is a separate fare. It’s that extra bit of nuisance and concern that really puts me off using public transport in the UK, especially the trains.
I went back to Australia for a holiday earlier this year, and the difference is amazing. Super cheap fares, fully integrated, no concerns about having to fork out extra money, easy to budget. You can focus on your life rather than worrying about how to navigate the public transport system, or if the train fare is going to be 10x as much because you want to travel that same day.
“Starting 31 March 2023, no matter where you live in Victoria, it will cost you the same amount to travel. The most you’ll pay is the same as a daily capped fare, which is currently $10.60 full fare, or $5.30 for concession.”
AUD$10.60 = £5.50. That’s unlimited travel for 24hrs within an area the size of the UK. Trams, buses, trains. That’s the price you pay, over the counter, on the day of travel.
[https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/tickets/fares/regional-fares/](https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/tickets/fares/regional-fares/)
All possible, also in the UK, but not with 20% taxes and 8% NI. You forget that he pays >50% taxes and therefore the state can afford to offer tickets at such rates.
I’d love to leave but unfortunately I’m not yet qualified in my trade so I have to stay on the sinking ship that is the uk and love getting told daily how easy my generation have it , despite having to work twice as hard for 10x less then previous generations
Transport, electricity, water, housing – I wonder what percentage of income is spent on essentially non-discretionary stuff that is run for profit.
If we were writing about a medieval economy, we would probably categories it as tax.
Combined with inexistent wage growth and we get the economy of today.
Yeah and this govt wonder why people don’t go to the office anymore…it’s so damn expensive!!! I’d be in the office everyday day if it cost me £29 a month!!! Idiots
I just came back from a trip to Munich for Oktoberfest and it blows my mind how far it feels like we’ve fallen behind, getting around the city on public transport was an absolute doddle, it was about 20 euros for 5 days for a pass for the trains, busses and underground that took us out to the surrounding areas of the city, we went to visit Dachau on it as well.
I moved to Vienna and it’s €365 per year – unlimited travel on city trains, buses, trams and the underground, and there is only one zone for the whole city. With this card, getting to the airport costs an additional €2.10 per journey.
Unless the Tories are relentlessly called out for making Britain a 3rd world country – you will get them back