Immigrating to the UK

Candystore said:
That does not explain though the high incidence of depression and suicide in e.g. Nordic countries?

BTW, I love holidaying in the UK - it is beautiful, but I miss the sun on my skin way too much.
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The beauty of being in the UK (or any European country, really) is its a quick, cheap flight to somewhere nice and hot for a holiday, like Spain for example. A lot of Brits go somewhere nice and hot each year.

Just over two weeks until we fly to uk; cannot wait.
 
Candystore said:
That does not explain though the high incidence of depression and suicide in e.g. Nordic countries?

BTW, I love holidaying in the UK - it is beautiful, but I miss the sun on my skin way too much.
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SA has a higher suicide rate than any nordic countries?

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The Voice said:
Anyone else receive a notification from their energy supplier that the rates are dropping? My monthly debit with Octopus is dropping by £90… score!
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Nice. Haven't received an email but the website says my new tariff is around £40 less per month. Not bad!
 
The Voice said:
Anyone else receive a notification from their energy supplier that the rates are dropping? My monthly debit with Octopus is dropping by £90… score!
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I've been on Octopus Tracker since last year, my bills are actually less than that.

Bill this month will be about £75 (billing date is tomorrow).

Here's last weeks daily charges

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The Voice said:
Anyone else receive a notification from their energy supplier that the rates are dropping? My monthly debit with Octopus is dropping by £90… score!
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Yes, but then they didn’t bill for electricity. :confused: Will just budget an average cause no doubt I’ll get it charged next month. EDF billing seems to fall over every time the tariff changes.
 
Paul Kemp said:
Yes, but then they didn’t bill for electricity. :confused: Will just budget an average cause no doubt I’ll get it charged next month. EDF billing seems to fall over every time the tariff changes.
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Can't you get them to push out a new bill? Octopus will do one in 48 hours if there's an issue with them billing on bill date (happened to me 2 months ago, my tariff needs daily meter readings and if the smart meter drops one it prevents the billing run). Octopus just refresh the account and re-bill, works really well.
 
Dave said:
Can't you get them to push out a new bill? Octopus will do one in 48 hours if there's an issue with them billing on bill date (happened to me 2 months ago, my tariff needs daily meter readings and if the smart meter drops one it prevents the billing run). Octopus just refresh the account and re-bill, works really well.
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What normally happens is I submit gas readings and get a bill immediately.(my gas meter is not connecting so doesn’t send readings, to be fixed next month)
Problem with EDF is you either talk to bots or their call Centre in KZN.
No biggy though, happened last year too, I just shift the budgeted money to next month.
 
Priapus said:
How many energy suppliers are there in the UK?
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Six big ones, and quite a few other small ones.

Octopus is considered the most innovative and best customer service.

Found this
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Bulb Energy is no more, the customer base was moved to Octopus late last year.
 
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Dave said:
Six big ones, and quite a few other small ones.

Octopus is considered the most innovative and best customer service.

Found this
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Bulb Energy is no more, the customer base was moved to Octopus late last year.
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Thanks. I need to do more reading up on how energy is generated and distributed there out of curiosity.
 
Priapus said:
Thanks. I need to do more reading up on how energy is generated and distributed there out of curiosity.
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When you realise there are also two way interconnectors to France, the Netherlands, Ireland and Norway it can seem really complicated.

Edit, and Denmark and Belgium and a load more planned, including one with Morocco.

List of electricity interconnectors in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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The whole bottom row of this is interconnecters.

 
Things that don't happen in SA...

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