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If I were planning to move to the UK....

Cold & Wet ;)

Nah - cost of living is getting more expensive thanks to Mr Blair's decision to go into war. Wage increases have generally not been in line with inflation for the last 18 months. There has been a vast hike of 20% in the cost of gas from British Gas from April.

Generally, I'm going to say it's easy to leave here of course, because I've managed to do so for 29 years. Getting somewhere to rent isn't difficult, but I would suggest to most people not to start in London. London pricing is higher than the rest of the country. The capital is packed with traffic, though manageable I couldn't live in a city like that without losing my temper or getting stressed out 5000 times a day.
 
On another board an american said that he thought a $200,000 house was rediculously expensive, and for that you got a huge house on a huge plot of land.

The same amount of money here might get you a small terraced house in a decent neighbourhood, or a detatched house in a not so good one.
 
And that's up North, where whisky lives and housing is dirt cheap compared to down here. $200k wouldn't even get you a small terraced house in most places. Faddy flat? Perhaps.
 
Man, 200k would get you a nice three or four bedroom with a couple acres in Paradise Vermont :)
 
My parent's house was $250,000 way back in the day, and its pretty decent sized I guess. I don't need anything that huge though. Assuming I could get into a school there, how much money would a young twink like me need to live comfortably?

I can't convert Euros to dollars. :D
 
I hear you also have to pay Taxes on everything.. TV, Phone, driving, the list goes on.. I had a friend live their for about a year and got sick of all the taxes he had to pay.
 
Gagh said:
Cold & Wet ;)

Nah - cost of living is getting more expensive thanks to Mr Blair's decision to go into war. Wage increases have generally not been in line with inflation for the last 18 months. There has been a vast hike of 20% in the cost of gas from British Gas from April.

Generally, I'm going to say it's easy to leave here of course, because I've managed to do so for 29 years. Getting somewhere to rent isn't difficult, but I would suggest to most people not to start in London. London pricing is higher than the rest of the country. The capital is packed with traffic, though manageable I couldn't live in a city like that without losing my temper or getting stressed out 5000 times a day.
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yep, London sucks- grimy, expensive and overcrowded - but in truth it doesn't matter which party is in power, they're all corrupt scumbags.
 
If you're going to move across the pond, livingwise, there are some places you should avoid like the plague.

London
Liverpool
Birmingham
Glasgow
Manchester
Gagh

The best places you would find to live are the southwest in Devon or Cornwall. Or in the midlands in Gloucestershire.

People are much more reserved over here, and as they said everything is smaller. More beuracracy too.

P.S We love to queue
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
Slip of the tongue? ;)

And what's this about my boy going to England? Go to Ireland, that's where I'll probably end up...
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One of these days I am going to go to Ireland.. It's one of the places on my list..
 
Christine may be going to France for a semester, and I am going with her, though I may stay somewhere else in the area.
 
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