11-06-2005 13:09									#1
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I've been in Leeds almost a year now and the job is fine, the people there are great and it's well paid (£1k pay rise next month!).

But the city is pretty crappy..my apartment block be noisy at times, there's a lack of decent nights out for music I like, and I'm paying over half of my salary in tax or rent. And what puts a cap on it is although I enjoy my work, the office is dreadfully overheated (usually 24c (75F) but yesterday got to 27c (81F)). I can't stand heat like that when you're just sat there festering in your own sweat. We have air conditioning too - work that one out.

Now there's a job advertised in Manchester, £15.5k so a bit of a pay cut, but the cut is less than the rent I'm paying at the moment in Leeds. But one catch, it means moving back to live with my parents for a bit. After a year on my own, not sure what that would be like!

So...stick with it in Leeds or start applying for jobs around here..hmmm! Opinions?

	11-06-2005 13:24									#2
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at elast for me, going back and living with parenst is a nightmare that I can't do for more then a couple weeks..

JM

	11-06-2005 14:25									#3
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Jobs in Britain must pay like ****.

	11-06-2005 15:23									#4
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You consider 27 hot ? Throughout the summer , the temperature here has consistently been over 40 C . WTF are you made of ? Ice ?

	11-06-2005 15:28									#5
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quote: Originally posted by aneeshm You consider 27 hot ? Throughout the summer , the temperature here has consistently been over 40 C . WTF are you made of ? Ice ?

Yeah, it can get close to that on average in the summer here in Reno, though Diss down in Vegas gets it worse. I only wish I could whine about 80F being too hot for comfort...

	11-06-2005 16:47									#6
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Have you considered leaving the North altogether? I did and I don't regret it!

	11-06-2005 17:06									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Have you considered leaving the North altogether? I did and I don't regret it!

Neither does the North.

	11-06-2005 17:41									#8
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quote: Originally posted by reds4ever Neither does the North.

Then it is mutually advantageous. I have a standard of living incomparable to what I had before, nicer surroundings and what is nigh on a tripling of income...

	11-06-2005 17:43									#9
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Doesn't Manchester have too many of those creepy scary brownish people for Stewie's taste?

	11-06-2005 17:44									#10
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Run away screeming.

I tried to live with my folks when I got back from cruise last week and it lasted about two weeks.

Not suire exactly what it was, it just grated me to be watching family televison after work with the folks.

shivers.

	11-06-2005 17:45									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Hueij Doesn't Manchester have too many of those creepy scary brownish people for Stewie's taste?

Nah, he's from Salford the last bastion of Irish decended bigots

	11-06-2005 18:15									#12
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@ Park Avenue,

I'd maybe take a 'holiday' to go spend a week or two with your parents first(if you haven't done it often since leaving home).
I get on great with my parents but find that it feels pretty claustrophobic to stay back home after having left, also it feels like i'm taking a step backwards.

	11-06-2005 19:41									#13
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Maybe taking one backwards for two forwards, as this job I am considering applying for has great prospects..

But there's no point staying in a place where you don't really enjoy?

	11-06-2005 20:03									#14
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Too many "illiberals"?

	11-06-2005 20:06									#15
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I've done it before without the prospect of work, and done it with the prospect of work.

I think the only reason I would ever move back with my folks, is if there was work, and that's an unlikely preposition, given the way the job market functions there.

	11-06-2005 20:08									#16
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Too wannabe-Southern for a northern city really.

One disgusting Morrisons to serve the whole of the city centre for food.

Too expensive.

Too hilly to bike around.

And now it's too Lib Dem.

	11-06-2005 21:45									#18
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I wouldn't move back in with my folks unless the situation were very dire. If you move back home, why not just get an apartment?

	11-06-2005 22:52									#19
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"why not just get an apartment?"

Part of the reason I am considering moving is that around 35% of my after tax earnings go on rent.

	11-06-2005 22:57									#20
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Find somewhere cheaper to live.

	11-06-2005 23:38									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Park Avenue Too wannabe-Southern for a northern city really.

yeah? that does surprise me!

	11-06-2005 23:51									#22
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quote: Originally posted by Park Avenue Part of the reason I am considering moving is that around 35% of my after tax earnings go on rent.

That's life...a similar proportion of mine goes on rent too...

	11-06-2005 23:55									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison That's life...a similar proportion of mine goes on rent too...

Mine too, 25%. As Ph said, thats life

	11-06-2005 23:57									#24
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I did fail to mention that I earn twice as much though

	12-06-2005 00:00									#25
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I find the disdain people from the North have for the South highly amusing. Mainly cos people from the South don't give a **** about any divide. You say "I'm from the North" around here and they think you mean north of the Thames.

	12-06-2005 00:09									#26
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All the highest paying jobs are going to be in cities where it will cost you a lot to live in. That's just the way it works.

	12-06-2005 00:19									#27
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Probably Dauphin that's because we're agreeable people and those southerners we know tend to be a bit ditzy and mouthy.

	12-06-2005 00:28									#28
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Yeah, that must be it.

	12-06-2005 00:32									#29
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quote: Originally posted by Park Avenue Probably Dauphin that's because we're agreeable people and those southerners we know tend to be a bit ditzy and mouthy.

Aren't they all a bit gay too?

	12-06-2005 00:33									#30
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You were in the Queen's Head last night weren't you?