[LRUG] UK salaries? Just curious...

[Daniel Tenner]

Cockails rock, though...

And in London, you'll get stung with spirits too :-) Anything more  
than beer basically.

Daniel

On 7 Mar 2008, at 14:557 Mar 2008, Richard Livsey wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Daniel Tenner  
> <daniel.ruby at tenner.org> wrote:
>> Well, you quickly get accustomed to the fact that you have to pay in
>> one week the amount that you'd pay in a month for a similarly sized
>> accommodation elsewhere. It just means you live somewhere much
>> smaller :-)
>
> Or you do like I do and end up skint each month around rent day :o)
>
> My money management scheme of earning more than you can spend doesn't
> seem to work very well as I somehow  find I can always think of
> something to spend money on!
>
>> So you don't actually spend more - you just live in a much
>> smaller flat.
>>
>> As for transport, so long as you're in London, a monthly travelcard
>> should pretty well sort that out.
>
> +1 on that. I used to get a monthly oyster card which works well if
> you are getting the tube to work each day.
> I've changed to pay as you go at the moment as my new place is close
> enough to work for me to run (starting monday, all kitted up with iPod
> and Nike+ now) and the bus is a lot cheaper than the tube.
>
> I'd like to re-iterate what has already been said about drink prices
> and going out in London.
> I had a night out in Leicester square the other night, was there from
> about 6pm until 4am and spent about £40 in total.
> The most expensive bit was the taxi home, but even then I shared it
> with a few people. I could have got the bus and it would have cost a
> couple of pounds.
>
> It's pretty much the same as going out in any city in the UK, if you
> go into a club or you drink cocktails then you're going to get stung.
> Stick to beers or spirits + mixer etc... and it's not too bad.
>
> -- 
> Richard Livsey
> Head of Technology, CitySafe
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