£100K not a good salary for Surrey
 

Jeremy Hunt said £100,000 is not a huge salary for Surrey-ians.

What do you think of us, poor people of Surrey? Don't we deserve levelling up?

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Probably isn't for a lot of them to be fair, context is everything as much as I'd like to haul him over coals

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He said it's not a huge salary, it's different from being a good salary.

He is mostly right that when you take in housing and child care costs then £100k isn't going to go far.

The question that should be put to him is not to contest that observation but to ask him why after 14 years of a Tory Government a salary that would put you in the top percentiles of income in the country isn't enough.

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Those are the coals to haul him over

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All I know is, whenever Kirstie & Phil have to do a house search in Slurrey, Phil always moans that it’s the most expensive county in the country to buy a house in, thereby making his job harder.

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https://www.foxtons.co.uk/living-in/surrey/house-prices

£602,617 Average property value today

£40,000 - £3,695,000 Property price range

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I think the ruling party might a be a tiny bit out of touch. Just confirmation of the increasing rich/poor divide.

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I'm not a Surrey-ian. Far from it :)

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And you can usually borrow roughly 4.5x your salary. £100k would not buy you an average home in Surrey unless you had a huge deposit.

Housing cost is such a huge stress on this country.

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Childcare is one of the many, many problems triggered by an £100,000 salary. Taxation goes bizerk at £100,001

Read this from the Telegraph

Hunt knows, Reeves knows.

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You would not get much for £40,000 around here, so what would you get in Surrey ? A cupboard ?

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Its clear you are butter off just under £100,000 if you are a couple with kids, as it says ;

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The £3.7k a year ground rent/maintenance is a bit of a drawback!

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My service charge is not too far off that! (in a flat)