Londonuck

Christ... we had 8k when we landed.

Rich_007

We had an old shoe, with a hole in it. And some newspaper to keep us warm.

It were aaard times, our kid.

R.

Danny B

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

Rich_007

Pwah ! Lucky me harse. Yer posh, I tell yer. We couldn't even afford a septic tank. We were grateful fir a rayt beatin' ter keep us warm at nite.

R.

Danny B

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

Rich_007

Lucky, I'd say you were. We couldn't afford a broken bottle. We were beat wi' a paving slab rind yed til we were knocked unconscious.

R.

Coffeepot

now i know the cold has got to you

Danny B

Right.
I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

Airseir

I find overall that Living in Kamloops is cheaper than Lincolnshire and certainly cheaper than NOttinghamshire.

Some of the hiddedn costs are$3.00 per day parking and free at weekends in the City Center. Never paying for parking when you go out at the weekends. Grocery shopping is generally cheaper if you go to the right places (Not Canadian Superstore). Clothing, house hold items generally cheaper, ice skating - 2 hours for only $5.00, awesome ski hill only 45mins away and alamost any leisure activity you need close to town so no need for long weekends away or holidays abroad for the sun, great campsites all around and low cost etc etc.

Car insurance can balance against low gas costs, Natural gas, Hydro (electric) etc all pretty much even up.

Obviously this is my personal opnion and like anywhere in the world the answer will differ according to life style

Gunfitter

Thank you all for your replies.

I thought the Monty Python posts very interesting.