How rich do you feel - and does a £100,000 salary still make you wealthy?
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This is Money
4.1 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
That’s the amount of money you have left over to spend or save after taxes and bills have been paid, according to comprehensive research.
This week, Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert and Lee Boyce talk income and ask... does a £100,000 annual salary really not make workers feel wealthy anymore?
The annual list of happiest and unhappiest towns to live in Britain has been released, with Slough in Berkshire being labelled the most miserable. Is that a fair tag for any town?
Bitcoin topped $100,000 for the first time. It soared in the wake of Donald Trump's election.
So, have the crypto evangelists been proved right, can you still make money from bitcoin and what other coins are worth looking into?
Lastly, wood stoves are back in the news. What are the rules around them - and are they really a polluting menace?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money podcast sponsored by Charles Stanley Direct. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Georgie Frost and joining me and Simon Lambert today is Lee Boyce. |
| 0:10.9 | And coming up, keeping up with the Joneses, but how rich are your neighbours? |
| 0:16.0 | We look at disposable income levels in cities across Britain, plus where in the UK is the most miserable town? |
| 0:23.4 | Do you live there? Also today, Bitcoin tops $100,000 for the first time. We explore |
| 0:29.0 | how and what to buy, how to protect yourself, and ask if you can still make a fortune. |
| 0:34.5 | And I've moved house with a wood burner. Can I start using it? Don't forget. |
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| 1:16.5 | Investment involves risk. |
| 1:18.5 | But first, how much spare cash do you have to spend? |
| 1:22.4 | Money supermarket's latest household money index has been released |
| 1:26.1 | and shows we typically have £836 |
| 1:30.1 | £836 indisposable income each month. That is the amount of money you have basically left |
| 1:36.1 | over to spend or save after taxes and the bills have been paid. But, as you might imagine, |
| 1:41.5 | this varies significantly depending on where you live. |
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