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Listed below are comments made by Dawley-magna between Saturday, 29th November 2008 and Saturday, 29th November 2008.

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Costa living going up? 3:31pm on 29 Nov 2008 Unlike most of the contributors whose comments I have read, I feel I am better off living in Europe. I ended my working life here in France and chose to take a french state pension. Under European legislation the contributions made in the UK were added to those made in France and I receive a percentage of the salary I earned plus a small occupational pension. Due to ill health I retired at 60 and the French system credited me with the missing years of contributions. Would the UK system have done the same?
The total is not enormous but it is paid in Euros and I am sure that I am better off living here than I would be in the UK on a similar pension. I do feel sorry for the few people who are living in very difficult circumstances but I suspect that many of the contributors are not as badly off as they pretend. They chose the expat lifestyle for material reasons and 25% from quite a lot still leaves a tidy sum.

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