Moving back home?

[Solly]

I've been in Leeds almost a year now and the job is fine, the people there are great and it's well paid (£1k pay rise next month!).

But the city is pretty crappy..my apartment block be noisy at times, there's a lack of decent nights out for music I like, and I'm paying over half of my salary in tax or rent. And what puts a cap on it is although I enjoy my work, the office is dreadfully overheated (usually 24c (75F) but yesterday got to 27c (81F)). I can't stand heat like that when you're just sat there festering in your own sweat. We have air conditioning too - work that one out.

Now there's a job advertised in Manchester, £15.5k so a bit of a pay cut, but the cut is less than the rent I'm paying at the moment in Leeds. But one catch, it means moving back to live with my parents for a bit. After a year on my own, not sure what that would be like!

So...stick with it in Leeds or start applying for jobs around here..hmmm! Opinions?

[Jon Miller]

at elast for me, going back and living with parenst is a nightmare that I can't do for more then a couple weeks..

JM

[Agathon]

Jobs in Britain must pay like ****.

[aneeshm]

You consider 27 hot ? Throughout the summer , the temperature here has consistently been over 40 C . WTF are you made of ? Ice ?

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by aneeshm
You consider 27 hot ? Throughout the summer , the temperature here has consistently been over 40 C . WTF are you made of ? Ice ?

Yeah, it can get close to that on average in the summer here in Reno, though Diss down in Vegas gets it worse. I only wish I could whine about 80F being too hot for comfort...

[Provost Harrison]

Have you considered leaving the North altogether? I did and I don't regret it!

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Have you considered leaving the North altogether? I did and I don't regret it!

Neither does the North.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by reds4ever


Neither does the North.

Then it is mutually advantageous. I have a standard of living incomparable to what I had before, nicer surroundings and what is nigh on a tripling of income...

[Hueij]

Doesn't Manchester have too many of those creepy scary brownish people for Stewie's taste?

[Patroklos]

Run away screeming.

I tried to live with my folks when I got back from cruise last week and it lasted about two weeks.

Not suire exactly what it was, it just grated me to be watching family televison after work with the folks.

shivers.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Hueij
Doesn't Manchester have too many of those creepy scary brownish people for Stewie's taste?

Nah, he's from Salford the last bastion of Irish decended bigots

[child of Thor]

@ Park Avenue,

I'd maybe take a 'holiday' to go spend a week or two with your parents first(if you haven't done it often since leaving home).
I get on great with my parents but find that it feels pretty claustrophobic to stay back home after having left, also it feels like i'm taking a step backwards.

[Solly]

Maybe taking one backwards for two forwards, as this job I am considering applying for has great prospects..

But there's no point staying in a place where you don't really enjoy?

[Whaleboy]

Too many "illiberals"?

[Ben Kenobi]

I've done it before without the prospect of work, and done it with the prospect of work.

I think the only reason I would ever move back with my folks, is if there was work, and that's an unlikely preposition, given the way the job market functions there.