Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Greg Cook" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: OT : UK Help Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 13:55:11 +1200 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <3D203F1A.7010608@100Tinsoldiers.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.37.124.253 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In New zealand. Well heres a break down. I earn 42.5 K NZ. Our house is a three bedroom, brand new townhouse, its a stand alone property in a nice part of town, have alrm, double garage with auto doors, dish washer etc. Bedrooms are all large etc.. this is 260 p.w Take is slightly cheaper here, i pull 630 in hand a week ( you get pain weekly here ). I spend around 50 - 80 on food a week. Average wage is 28k here. they consider my wage the high end braket, so if you earn say 30 you should be sweet, Ive been out of uni for 2 years and started on 28k, and i survived fine during that time, but i didnt get a chance to save much. I hope those figure help you, i kinda expected to pay 300 P.W ( 1200 month ) for rent, and would be earning i figured around 40k. ( most likely in london ). remember that your dollar is also worth 3 NZ dollars, so if you come here with 10K UK, then you get a nice sum of 30k nz.. a nice start to life :) Greg "Nigel Critten" wrote in message news:3D203F1A.7010608@100Tinsoldiers.com... > 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 > > >