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Yeah the divide between the North and the South in this country is really fucking stark and getting ever wider. The North hasn’t been as expensive as the South although house prices have been rising to silly levels round here as well recently. They’re building new bungalows near where I grew up and they’re trying to sell them for half a million just because they’re in the suburbs and near a school, it’s absolutely ridiculous.

30k would have been enough for me to buy a small terraced house or an apartment round here but not much else. I pointed out that the wage wasn’t even the national average salary and they tried to claim that it was good for the area but I’m pretty sure it’s still below the regional average too. They were a billion pound international private company and could absolutely have afforded to pay me a decent wage. Sales staff up and down the company were regularly taking home six figures in commission bonuses. I was offered a max bonus of £3k. Absolute joke company.

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aren't London and North of England, like... different places? Like SF and Sac, maybe?

London is south