Originally Posted by
pudoc
But then you have to live in America....
As a fan of the USA (and their mostly more generous spirited people), even back when the UK and the US were not so dissimilar in wealth and enterprise, it is now almost painful to go there and realise how American spending power (and reward for aspiration) has left the EU and UK way way behind in a feckless socialist fug, which Virgin crews will be reminded of each time they head west. So that comment above can only be made by someone who is unaware of the relative decline of their European bubble (and the EU bubble is a delight compared to brexit UK which is so diminished, it will soon be poorer than Poland, and indeed the poorest state of Mississippi). Long haul/short haul/Virgini/Ryanair - if you're stuck in that bubble, you're the poor relation, and getting poorer, so after tax pay differs little whether you work flat out, join the best paid company or whatever aspiration - for as long as you're ruled by "soak the rich" gerontocracy serving an economically inactive blob, sustained by a dwindling number of clobbered workers paying absolutely wilting levels of tax.