Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Work in the UK. Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:16:53 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <38ce57aa.2422392976@news.playstation.co.uk> References: <38B1D4E9.1D8C059B@fulcrum.com.au> <38b25941.2645299@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <88tq7a$ad4@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <1e7h2hl.1azaiewh6iatxN@ipc379b311.dial.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.27.57.69 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 My rent here in the US is $2260 for a 1 bedroom apartment that I share with my girlfriend. It's not cheap to live in New York CIty (and definitely not in Manhattan). I couldn't imagine living out of Manhattan though... Steven On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 07:20:39 +0100, debri@hetnet.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis) wrote: >Matt Verran wrote: > >> > it is polluted and I personally hate it but thats tough as I work >> > here. Minimum wage to support two people - hmm probably about 26k at a >> > real guess. Thats at a bout rent of £700 a month and theres travel and >> > bills. >> >> My rent for a two bedroomed (niceish) flat is only £250 per month and thats >> expensive for where I am (Derbyshire), the prices above are for London, the >> north of England is generally cheaper than the south too. Of course what you >> get paid depends on where you are too, the jobs in London pay more to >> accomodate the higher expense. > > >Christ!! How expensive!!!! I live in Holland (not comparable with the >UK) and even in a cheaper place of Holland and I pay about 100 pounds a >month on rent and about 50 pounds on gas, water and electric. >Travelexpenses are never higher than about 400 pound since you would get >a total public transportation pass for that. Here in holland I get >around with about 2000 Nlg, that is something like 650 pounds a month!! >In my situation, I might say that I am still a student, but still. >A normal salery in Holland would be someting like 60k Nlg, that would be >17k in pounds or so. Remind, that is not minimum, thats good money here. >If you earn 23k here, you sure have above avaridge. > >DEnnis.. > >DEnnis..