>>>>>>It has appeared in the U.S. press many times and even in the primetime tv news stories over the past couple of years.
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>>>>>>Get ready for more. ;-)
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>>>>>I'm still waiting for France or Sweden to let me move there and live comfortably on the dole :o)
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>>>>Certainly in France the initial rate of unemployment benefit is a high percentage of your previous pay packet but it doesn't last forever. This living comfortably on the dole is a bit of an American myth.
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>>>I've been to almost every European country and while all are beautiful and I met truly wonderful people, that was the greatest enticement to actually living there. :o)
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>>Really. Ask Terry how he's finding it on the dole. He may be living but I bet its not comfortable.
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>>If I signed on now I think I would get about £100.00 per week. (thats for me and my partner)
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>You're missing my point. I did not intend to lesson Terry's situation in anyway and I'll pass on this discussion since it's turned to a direction I was not going...

Well Sorry I missed your point . I didn't mean you to feel got at.