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That sounds less fun to talk about
by dbbk 3y ago
That sounds less fun to talk about
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- frereubu 3y agoSo write a blog post about how London is hell and post it here...
- _fvh3 3y agoIt's only hell if you don't have money
- dbbk 3y agoMoney doesn’t help in my experience
- _fvh3 3y agoHaha now you got me curious
- jakeykakey 3y agoIf you still have to pay off some kind of rent/mortage and work for a living, you're basically just an NPC-style window dressing for the well and truly rich sons of millionares and oligarchs that make up the London global elite. Barring some of the super-top-tier jobs, your salary will realistically cap out at maybe £100-150k as the absolute best of the best at which point you're technically really rich on paper but still not like "can actually afford to buy a really nice house and have two kids in a really nice area" rich. For all the talk about "bigger salaries" and "career progression", I'm genuinely not convinced that those who join the London rat race are actually truly better off than someone in Leeds. Sure you can hit upwards of 80k after like five, but that completely ignores that you need to be earning like £60k to have a half-decent standard of living to begin with.
- _fvh3 3y agoMakes you wonder how people manage to bring up kids in London
- musicale 3y agoThis summary has helpfully saved time that I might otherwise have wasted reading the apparently tedious (though well-regarded) works of Evelyn Waugh. > From that moment,’ Auberon Waugh recalled, ‘I never treated anything he had to say on faith or morals very seriously.’ If the person telling you smoking is unhealthy is a smoker, then it's obviously a lie and you should enjoy the healthy smoking habit whenever possible. But I look forward to HN comments about how and why London is or is not hell. Those are likely to be both interesting and informative. ;-)