On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:50:44 +0100, 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.

I know people who do as well, and they're not CEOs of large corporations.

>> 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...

So everybody who is actually driving in London rush hour is insane?

Jim

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