Originally Posted by
dingo9
Don't think this is quite true - you pay effectively a wear and tear tarrif and a charge in lieu of council tax. Before I left ( last year ) I paid £120 per month for a 4 bed detached house in Hampshire outside the wire. I'd love to find a similar property on the civ market. The council tax equivalent was £150 per month.
Good point. Although in the civilian market there is a troublesome little problem called building regulations which does not seem to have bothered the MoD until very recently. Then there is the fact that in the civilian market the drains usually work: not something you see around airfields, generally.
Rather like a SAR Helicopter Service, it's not always easy to work out what an equivalent service really is.