You can get £60-90k in places like Manchester and Edinburgh, which does afford a pretty nice lifestyle given that the average salary in those places is less tha

You can get £60-90k in places like Manchester and Edinburgh, which does afford a pretty nice lifestyle given that the average salary in those places is less than half that. The best way to get a high salary in the UK seems to be to either work in London, work remotely for a London based office, or work in London then transfer to another part of the UK. I'm not a London native, but there's a phrase people in my home town use, "doing your London time" - meaning working in London for a few years then moving back home. Reason being that once you've worked in London, your salary is permanently much higher once you move back than it would otherwise have been.