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Maybe I measure these things wrong.

What's the size of this three bedroom house, on sale at the moment: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/pro...
Or another one in a different town: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/pro...
Perhaps something a little more scenic: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/pro...

600 square foot lounge in any of them?

Maybe I measure these things wrong.

What's the size of this three bedroom house, on sale at the moment: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/pro...
Or another one in a different town: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/pro...
Perhaps something a little more scenic: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/pro...

600 square foot lounge in any of them?

Maybe I measure these things wrong.

What's the size of this three bedroom house, on sale at the moment: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/pro...
Or another one in a different town: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/pro...
Perhaps something a little more scenic: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/pro...

600 square foot lounge in any of them?

A much better way of doing this is to show sale prices of properties nearby, as the UK sites right move and Zoopla do. This way you can see which are roughly equivalent properties pretty quickly, then look on street view to refine your matches or even go and drive past in person.

In a typical unassuming, northern (i.e. completely out of the fucking way, so its as cheap as you can get) suburb in the UK, house prices tripled from 2000 to 2008 and then held steady. Flat for pretty much that last decade now.

wallasey village
west kirby

Bear in mind that many of these are abysmal, dangerous terraced houses too.

Not quite the kind that are being sold to developers for £1 so they can demolish them, but close.

In a typical unassuming, northern (i.e. completely out of the fucking way, so its as cheap as you can get) suburb in the UK, house prices tripled from 2000 to 2008 and then held steady. Flat for pretty much that last decade now.

wallasey village
west kirby

Bear in mind that many of these are abysmal, dangerous terraced houses too.

Not quite the kind that are being sold to developers for £1 so they can demolish them, but close.

This one's 290 quid.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/pro...

I didn't say it was easy, and "cheapest flat-share in all London" does not sound like a good situation for a family to move into. But I wasn't arguing that the room wouldn't suck, I was arguing that it existed.

Or half an estate in Ferndale

I thought you were kidding, but a quick webcheck shows thatit's not much of an exageration

£240,000 will get you a decent 4 bedroom house in Wakefield", or a 6 bedroom house in Blackburn.

£240,000 will get you a decent 4 bedroom house in Wakefield", or a 6 bedroom house in Blackburn.

I lived in England and traveled around Europe for 3 years. Great beer, old/ancient cities, and gorgeous women. Everything else pretty much sucked ass though.

Let's see a 25% sales tax rate, $8 for a gallon of gas, houses for 3 times the price at 1/2 the size, electronics, clothing, food, and cars that are nearly twice as much, oh yeah did I forget the cronic 10-19% unemployment rate among adults and 75-99% unemployment rate among teenagers.

Get me a plane ticket I want to move right now!

Most college degrees in the US are pretty much not worth the paper they're printed on. Euro degrees even more so. I think the concept of hiring young people the moment they are legal to work and then train them according to their skills is a long missing concept in society.

All the rest of a "well rounded" education can easily be filled in by watching the discovery and history channels and reading a few books.

US employment rate has consistently been higher than the UKs over the last decade (currently USA 9.3%, UK 7.9%). The youth unemployment rate is 19.1% (2009 figure, latest I could find), almost exactly the same as the USA rate for the same year year. Sales tax (VAT) is 17.5%. Petrol is currently £1.14 per litre = £4.31 per us gallon = $6.53. Food is not double the price - its very hard to compare basics like bread and milk are about the same, other things are a little more. Cars are a lot more, but I think 1.5 times as much for most common models. House prices is hard, £250,000 could get you a large 4-bed house in Inverness or a studio flat in Chelsea. Houses are generally smaller, but certainly not three times the price unless you compare the city of London prices.

I lived in England and traveled around Europe for 3 years. Great beer, old/ancient cities, and gorgeous women. Everything else pretty much sucked ass though.

Let's see a 25% sales tax rate, $8 for a gallon of gas, houses for 3 times the price at 1/2 the size, electronics, clothing, food, and cars that are nearly twice as much, oh yeah did I forget the cronic 10-19% unemployment rate among adults and 75-99% unemployment rate among teenagers.

Get me a plane ticket I want to move right now!

Most college degrees in the US are pretty much not worth the paper they're printed on. Euro degrees even more so. I think the concept of hiring young people the moment they are legal to work and then train them according to their skills is a long missing concept in society.

All the rest of a "well rounded" education can easily be filled in by watching the discovery and history channels and reading a few books.

US employment rate has consistently been higher than the UKs over the last decade (currently USA 9.3%, UK 7.9%). The youth unemployment rate is 19.1% (2009 figure, latest I could find), almost exactly the same as the USA rate for the same year year. Sales tax (VAT) is 17.5%. Petrol is currently £1.14 per litre = £4.31 per us gallon = $6.53. Food is not double the price - its very hard to compare basics like bread and milk are about the same, other things are a little more. Cars are a lot more, but I think 1.5 times as much for most common models. House prices is hard, £250,000 could get you a large 4-bed house in Inverness or a studio flat in Chelsea. Houses are generally smaller, but certainly not three times the price unless you compare the city of London prices.

I don't know where you live, but a 2 bedroom house for $400 a month, even $800 a month sounds like heaven over here in the UK. Have a look at RightMove and see what I'm talking about :(
You'd virtually have to live in Gangsta Road, Slum City to get somewhere like that

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