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TheFrenchun
Officially Mrs saspro
Joined: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:55 pm Posts: 4955 Location: on the naughty step
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Telegraph : how rich are you?I struggle to believe these figures to be honest 
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Tue Mar 25, 2014 4:13 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Between 4th and 5th.
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Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:47 pm |
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hifidelity2
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:03 pm Posts: 5041 Location: London
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The problem is that is for the whole country and anyone in London / SE is going to be up near the top just because of the cost of housing
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Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:07 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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Unless you're a landlord, the cost of housing isn't going to contribute to your gross income is it? I'm around the ninth decile.
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Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:13 pm |
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jonlumb
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:44 pm Posts: 4141 Location: Exeter
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I think the point was more that salaries are so much higher due to cost of living etc.
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Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:19 pm |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm Posts: 5837
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Fourth decile here
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Wed Mar 26, 2014 5:14 am |
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jonlumb
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:44 pm Posts: 4141 Location: Exeter
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Last one here. Would be 6th if I was still single and without small children.
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Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:54 am |
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TheFrenchun
Officially Mrs saspro
Joined: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:55 pm Posts: 4955 Location: on the naughty step
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How anyone below 6th decile would survive in London is beyond me. I am in 9th decile and I know that I couldn't afford not to live in a shared flat or have a car. saying that, rental prices in outer London boroughs seems to be coming down marginally. Average seems to have dropped from £1250 a month to £1100 for a 1/2 bed flat.
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Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:39 am |
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm Posts: 4876 Location: Newcastle
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Well I am considerably higher than I thought, 8th decile with my gf, but we've got very low living costs compared to London (3 bed semi in a nice area is under £600 a month)
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Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:03 pm |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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It was similar when I moved to Germany, I went from £1300 for a 49 SqM flat in Woking to £1100 for 98 SqM outside Munich to £275 for 110 SqM in Bramsche.
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Thu Mar 27, 2014 4:59 am |
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E. F. Benson
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:42 am Posts: 798 Location: land of the free, Bexhill-on-Sea
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I am self employed, herself has a reasonable income, but we have a mortgage and associated bills which don't exactly make me feel comfortably well off. It's a rat race baby.
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Thu Mar 27, 2014 7:56 am |
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hifidelity2
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:03 pm Posts: 5041 Location: London
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Same but the other way - when I lived in Sheffield I was on a lot lower salary but the house cost me £25K to buy - Now down in the SE on a good salary but the cost of the house..... 
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Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:40 am |
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