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'Awesome' is a crass Americanism.

Britain is 'great'. The clue's in the name.

We see this in the data-- women earn about the same as men in their 20's and 30's, but the gap begins to grow faster as they hit mid-career and work into retirement.

Hasn't there been recent research that puts this mostly down to women's lack of willingness to negotiate a higher salary, ask for raises, etc.

For instance, when taking on a new job a woman is more likely to take the salary offered whereas a man is more likely to push the employer for more. Reddit's former CEO concurs

This might also explain why the pay gap is smaller for entry level jobs. For basic 'no experience' jobs the employee doesn't have much of a position when it comes to negotiating a higher salary. Whereas the opposite is true for higher level positions, where a willingness to fight for a higher salary is more likely to bear fruit.

Another option is to focus on locally sourced food slaughtered and prepared by small independently owned butchers.

Also, hunting, game shooting, eating vermin species (rabbit, pigeon, etc). Millions of pigeons are shot each year in the UK in order to protect our farmland yet precious few end up on the dinner table. This to me is a massive waste or resources.

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I'd say I get 90% of the meat I buy from my local village butcher. He slaughters all his animals on site and his animals all come from small local farms owned by his family.

I see the pigs/cows/sheep I'll be eating almost daily in the fields surrounding my house.

A few years back a local farmer donated some piglets to me as the sow had died (he was going to shoot them), I reared them by hand then once big enough took them to my butcher for slaughter; I even slaughtered the first myself. It was a bloody affair (as is to be expected), but the animals killed there are certainly treated with respect and killed in an ethical manner.

His prices are generally around 15-20% higher than the supermarkets but I think it's worth it.

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I also shoot a lot of game, and personally run a small driven game shoot where we release a thousand or so hand-reared pheasant & partridge poults out into the wild in June/July before shooting them over the winter (Nov-Jan). They have a far better life than even the most ethically treated farm animal and if we even shoot a third of those we release we'd consider it a successful year (50% would be amazing but it's not happened yet).

Obviously this isn't an option for everyone (nor would it be viable on a large scale), but paying extra to buy ethically certainly is an option. At the end of the day though most people just want cheap food and don't care where it comes from or what the animals go through, which is why we've ended up with the industrialised system we currently have.

While true, the problem with that attitude is that most other EU countries are perfectly happy with the way it's headed.

Why should the UK be entitled to force other countries to stall their plans for federalisation just because it's not what they want?

If anything that will just result in further resentment as the UK continually blocks any attempts at further integration in a misguided attempt to reform an EU that doesn't want to be reformed.

You might find that you're better off keeping the second property, renting it, then using both lots of rental income to pay off the mortgage on a third property.

I currently have three rental properties, two paid off, one with a mortgage. Plus a new-build/conversion project on an outbuilding I've got planning on.

When the conversion is complete I'll have 4x rental income paying into the one mortgage. When that's paid off I'll buy somewhere else and have five lots of income paying into it.

...And so on & so forth until I retire. At which point I can stop buying and live of the rental income, or sell everything to get a relatively large lump sum then fuck off to the Bahamas or something.

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/r/realestate is a pretty good subreddit for this sort of thing and has many like-minded individuals.

NB. I'm also in the UK.