Off the top of my head don't know the exchange rate for pound vs. dollar... Come live up here in the Northeast in New england..ouch..good chunk of my gooes toward Health Insurance and heating..etc ..barely enough left over for beer..got to squeeze everything out of the bottom of the barrel.

  QUOTE (jaback @ December 5, 2006, 10:15)

Is life worth living.

If ya decide to move here, bring that case of Bird's custard with ya for me, okay?

Bird's custard

Bird's is the brand name for this bland runny custard desert that my Brit husband just loves....it's an English staple and pretty cheap there and pretty pricey in this country!

  QUOTE (Chazzy @ December 5, 2006, 11:03)

It's only runny if you don't make it right!

This was current exchange rate at the close of today:
1 US Dollar = 0.50593 British Pound

1 British Pound (GBP) = 1.97655 US Dollar (USD)


Now around here, a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, about 1500 finished square feet, around $200,000. And the housing prices is on the way down, about a year ago that same house would have been about $250,000+. Milk just over $3.00 per gallon. Gas as of today $2.19 gallon. Trash is about $19.00 per month. DSL Internet is around $25.00 a month. Minimum wage is $5.15, unless your a waitress/waiter then about $3.50 per hour. Average wage here is about $6.00 per hour, but if your drive to the cities you can get about $11.00 to $20.00. Electric for the average house, $60 month in summer and not much A/C running, to about $150 to $200 a month in winter. Taxes on the house above about $2500 a year homesteaded, $5500 non-homesteaded. Car insurance about $75.00+ a month.

omg - you don't even want to know what the cost of living is in so. calif or hawaii... a 2-3 bdr condo in oc will run around 1/2 million. yikes!

Heck, I'm looking at rentals right now and all I can say is OUCH! No yard, tiny apartments are outrageous...and what I want is a house with a yard...way over my price range.

The people that bought the house next door and fixed it up are asking a little over 160K for it! They paid 60 something K, I think. They'll never get that much... especially after they painted it a **** brown!

  QUOTE (MoonHowler @ February 25, 2008, 10:06)



I was also a little disgusted with some house flippers that bought a house near me, they probably didn't pay more than 40K for a virtually untouched gorgeous 1920's craftsman style bungalow with original stained glass and top grade indoor wood work....they totally ruined it, the roof line was redone in a way that completely trashed the architectural lines of the house and a couple of Lowe's truckloads of cheap materials, they still sold it for nearly 140K....what use to be a beautiful piece of architectural art...is now just a cheap old remodeled house I can barely stand to look at...