Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Nigel Critten Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: OT : UK Help Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 12:38:02 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3D203F1A.7010608@100Tinsoldiers.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-382.arcanine.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en It really does depend on the area, in the south especially around London you can expect to earn a lot more money but you will also be paying a lot more to live house prices and rent are a lot higher in and around London, the North is a lot cheaper but the wages are lower. Put it this way I live in East Anglia, the house prices have gone sky high recently, the average house (and I mean average) cost about 110k now 5 years ago you could get a superb house for 85k, at the moment unless things drop off I can't afford to live here, fortunatly my parents haven't chucked me out yet... If you wanted to rent, again in East Anglia you will be looking at 300-500ukp a month. To sum up the UK isn't cheap, Scotland is actually cheaper and a nice place to live but there isn't the same demand for the sort of job you are looking for. Out of interest roughly what do you earn/need in New Zealand to live? Nigel