oh dear - wife wants to move to oxford!

[wendigo100]

My missus wants to work in Oxford, but I'm not sure I can get much Access development work there. Still, she says she might know of someone. Also, it's closer to her AIDS treatment centre.

[EternalOptimist]

I got a real problem guys

I am moving to Oxford on a long term lucrative contract, my bit on the side is desperate to join me but her pussy of an ACCESS developer husband is scared that he wont find work.
So now I have to pretend to emply the sad sack just so I can rag his missus round the bedroom 5 days a week

sheesh , life is so unfair

[Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]

Sir! Only Giant Green Alien Lizard tulip Sir!

SO WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE? A FCUKING COMEDIAN, HUH? YOU TRYING TO STEAL AN INCH ON ME, SON?

[lilelvis2000]

don't do it! I've just moved away after 22 years, can't stand the place now. It's all bloody foreigners and wannabe toffs and don't get me started on those students.

Plus the shopping is crap, council are in the university's pocket and the transport strategy is pants! (basically involves painting bus lanes and banning cars; as well as one-way systems.

crappy shopping will only mean the wife will drive to nearest large shopping mall - llike she does to the Trafford Centre now. don't mind bus lanes..they are all over manchester - and I don't drive.

What I do mind is the seriously over priced housing! Rather be where you are..Bristol..at least I have a chance at some work there.

But then again..once in your life you can say "Yeah I lived in xxxx and it was xxx." There arn't any seven foot tall lizards around are there..

BTW I've seen the ST lizard figurine at a shop in the northern quarter of M'cr. It was no where near Seven foot tall...more like 4".

[Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]

Sir! Seven Foot Three Sir!

SEVEN FOOT THREE? I DIDN'T KNOW THEY STACKED tulip THAT HIGH.

[~Craig~]

don't do it! I've just moved away after 22 years, can't stand the place now. It's all bloody foreigners and wannabe toffs and don't get me started on those students.

Plus the shopping is crap, council are in the university's pocket and the transport strategy is pants! (basically involves painting bus lanes and banning cars; as well as one-way systems.

[Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]

Not sure this " Oh Dear" is right for us hairy chested , muscely men types wonder what "Gunny" would say about this?

HOW TALL ARE YOU, PRIVATE?

[Cyber Controller]

Remind the wife that every move adds to the coffers of Gordon Brown (stamp duty etc.), and you cannot see why you should subsidise this failing government further.

btw this is also the only reason you should consider:

Stopping smoking,drinking,driving etc.

How long will it be before not smoking, drinking or driving are punishable as tax evasion?

[Gold Dalek]

Remind the wife that every move adds to the coffers of Gordon Brown (stamp duty etc.), and you cannot see why you should subsidise this failing government further.

btw this is also the only reason you should consider:

Stopping smoking,drinking,driving etc.

[Bitbucket]

Oh Dear

Not sure this " Oh Dear" is right for us hairy chested , muscely men types wonder what "Gunny" would say about this?

[Churchill]

Funny that , my wife has been looking at houses to buy in Cambridge...

[lilelvis2000]

Let her, then as soon as she's gone have the time of your life.

Tempting, She is a shopaholic, I don't think we've ever been able to get by without using the overdraft. But then I would miss the kids and her cooking.

So - like all married men - I must carry on in my misery until my youngest leaves the nest (at age 35). Which means - looking for work in and around oxford. Last time I look there wasn't any.

[Lucifer Box]

oh dear - wife wants to move to oxford!

Let her, then as soon as she's gone have the time of your life.

[mcquiggd]

Lived in Oxford for four and a half years.... expensive.... but great totty. The students are quite elitist but some are fit as hell... nice pubs too.

Ditch the missus and move there yourself.....

As for IT jobs there are some small consultancies, not much of a contracting industry in the city itself. Publishing is big business.

[lilelvis2000]

From the cheap centre of the world - according to Jack Straw..to the expensive confines of Oxford and the spoiled students which inhabit it.

Now I've just got to find something that pays more than the crappy rate I'm on now. I'm not even aware if Oxford has any IT jobs within it at all.

how do I get outta this one? anyone?