On 24/10/2011 10:50 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>>> What if they said "We'll give you $150,000 more each year to move to
>>>> London"?
>>>
>>> That's almost a hundred grand in UK currency. Nobody earns that much.
>>
>> Yes people do. I know several.
>
> Sure, the CEO of a large corporation might earn something like that. 
> (Depending on how large, of course.) Normal humans don't earn that 
> sort of money.
>
No, trust me normal people do earn that sort of money but they tend to 
be contractors, in my experience.

>> Commuting from MK to Victoria would take at least 75 minutes each way by
>> train and tube and cost about GBP 50 per day.
>
> Yeah, not fun.
>
>> As for driving there, no
>> one in their right mind would drive into central London to work in an
>> office. AFAIR parking is GBP 4 per hour.
>
> The cost of parking is the least of your worries. Have you *seen* the 
> traffic?! At rush hour? Truly no sane person would do this unless they 
> had absolutely no alternative...
A nightmare. When I occasionally work in London I take the bus or the tube.

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Regards
     Stephen

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