Help re acccom and salary in London

[MicrosoftBob]

Those rooms are tiny.

Most adults specifically male ones like double beds with room to walk around the bed.

I put our king size bed in the smallest room upstairs, as it's only used for sleeping and shagging it seemed a waste otherwise

[PurpleGorilla]

Actually you are fine cycling in most areas.

Cycling round your gated community doesn't count.

[mudskipper]

Indeed. The average wage in London is supposed to be £35k? Maybe all of London is full of people who own their own accommodation.

Probably takes into account all the interns working for free.

[SueEllen]

Cycling round your gated community doesn't count.

I cycle on the roads and I don't live in a gated community.

[AtW]

I cycle on the roads and I don't live in a gated community.

I always knew there was something wrong with you!

[PurpleGorilla]

I cycle on the roads and I don't live in a gated community.

Cycle safe.

[NigelJK]

Commuted in from Brookmans park when I lived in that area. 28 mins to Liverpool St on a slow day.

Potter bar up the road was very reasonable in house purchase terms, and 20 mins on the fast to Liverpool St.

[Bluenose]

Random ramble.

When I moved to London in 2001 from Birmingham (single and mid-20s) it was a no-brainer as neither Birmingham or Manchester could compete with it on many levels.

My starting salary was £37k back then and it was not enough.

15 years on and I would seriously consider not moving to London at all unless it was a career changing move.

I still live in the outer suburbs of London but having spent the past 7 months in Manchester working on a contract I can't see London's appeal at the moment. Even compared to 2001 it is even more vastly overcrowded and Brum, Manc can offer 95% of what London gives you.

The one thing London still holds is a much higher proportion of £150k+ jobs.

People smirk at rebalancing away from London but I think it has been progressing steadily since 2011 and I can't see it slowing down.

[LondonManc]

Random ramble.

When I moved to London in 2001 from Birmingham (single and mid-20s) it was a no-brainer as neither Birmingham or Manchester could compete with it on many levels.

My starting salary was £37k back then and it was not enough.

15 years on and I would seriously consider not moving to London at all unless it was a career changing move.

I still live in the outer suburbs of London but having spent the past 7 months in Manchester working on a contract I can't see London's appeal at the moment. Even compared to 2001 it is even more vastly overcrowded and Brum, Manc can offer 95% of what London gives you.

The one thing London still holds is a much higher proportion of £150k+ jobs.

People smirk at rebalancing away from London but I think it has been progressing steadily since 2011 and I can't see it slowing down.

I can see offshoring going the full circle and London firms doing what American ones do and using cheaper resource elsewhere in the same country. While it's more expensive than another country, you get all the benefits of a single country of operation - timezone, working hours, language, legal, no multinational faffing around, etc.

[vetran]

I can see offshoring going the full circle and London firms doing what American ones do and using cheaper resource elsewhere in the same country. While it's more expensive than another country, you get all the benefits of a single country of operation - timezone, working hours, language, legal, no multinational faffing around, etc.

why when you have the whole of the EU to abuse?

Eastern Europe has loads of cheap resource!