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Household income is a poor measure in my opinion. If I happen to live with a roommate who also earns the same as me, am I suddendly twice as wealthy? Of course not.

As the majority of households have two main income earners, and I live on my own, it is wrong to compare my income against that of a married couple. I would be much more interested to compare where my earnings are against individuals, not households.

Sorry, but what is the relevance of this to Hacker News? Please don't let this turn into Reddit.

If it's totally free, how will you make money? Where's the business?

UK fees, even at the new £9k (~$14k) rate, are still heavily subsidised by the state. To study my course (Imperial, CS) as an overseas student is £22.5k (~$36.5k).

You might wanna add some carriage returns to that post.

Paying £25k (~$40k USD) for grad devs in London is a bit cheeky, when you consider the living costs are higher than in Silicon Valley (http://tinyurl.com/6e8d3th). Clearly, UK students enjoy selling their soul to live in bedsits eating noodles :-)

>> you end up spending a lot more as well

How come? Is it a case of "Keeping up with the Joneses"?

> failing to say one sentence when you're 22 costs you almost a hundred thousand dollars by the time you are thirty.

Wow. As a CS-grad about to take a full-time job offer, I'd surprisingly never thought of this at all. But how easy is it to say "Your offer plus $5k"? What could be the possible consequences of this?