Official: Scotland is the best place to live in the UK
08 November 2006, 10:36 AM
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Official: Scotland is the best place to live in the UK
If that's the case I'm going to learn Spanish and move...........
“Financially, you could say Scotland was an ideal place to live. You're not going to earn the top salary but you have low living costs,”
There are 48 counties or boroughs in the UK with higher average earnings than anywhere else in the whole of the UK. There are no prizes for guessing that London scores highly here. In fact, London boroughs take eight of the top 10 places in the GMB union’s top-earning boroughs. The City of London comes top with an average salary of £75,587, a whopping 261% of the national average.
Tower Hamlets, no doubt boosted by trendy Wapping and Canary Wharf, comes in second place with average salary of £71,838. This figure then falls fairly sharply to £50,781 in the City of Westminster, £47,123 in Islington, £43,269 in Hammersmith and Fulham and £39.904 in Camden. Windsor and Maidenhead, then Bracknell Forest come next before two more London boroughs - Lambeth and Southwark. But the latter is still raking in 128% of average earnings with £35,984.
The last five areas to enjoy above average earnings are Manchester (£29,032), Hampshire (£28,716), Milton Keynes (£28,605), Oxfordshire (£28,480) and the City of Edinburgh (£28,386).
The 10 areas with the lowest average gross annual earnings are the isle of Wight (£21,325), Powys (£21,249), Torbay (£21,173), East Renfrewshire (£21,150), Ceredigion (£21,085), Rutland (£21,048), Denbighshire (£20,860), Scottish Borders (£20,756), Darlington (£20,550) and Moray where the average salary of £20,447 puts workers at just 72% of the national average.
CJ Brough, a spokesman for Payfinder, which produces similar figures says: “Most people have this idea that people put up with the rat race for the larger salaries, but ultimately look forward to moving to the country where they will be paid less but at the same time have lower living costs. We found that all the areas that had low living costs had low salaries too.”
She believes there is one region which seems to get the balance right - Scotland came third in the Payfinder Wealth Index despite its average salary falling below the UK average.
“Financially, you could say Scotland was an ideal place to live. You're not going to earn the top salary but you have low living costs,”
There are 48 counties or boroughs in the UK with higher average earnings than anywhere else in the whole of the UK. There are no prizes for guessing that London scores highly here. In fact, London boroughs take eight of the top 10 places in the GMB union’s top-earning boroughs. The City of London comes top with an average salary of £75,587, a whopping 261% of the national average.
Tower Hamlets, no doubt boosted by trendy Wapping and Canary Wharf, comes in second place with average salary of £71,838. This figure then falls fairly sharply to £50,781 in the City of Westminster, £47,123 in Islington, £43,269 in Hammersmith and Fulham and £39.904 in Camden. Windsor and Maidenhead, then Bracknell Forest come next before two more London boroughs - Lambeth and Southwark. But the latter is still raking in 128% of average earnings with £35,984.
The last five areas to enjoy above average earnings are Manchester (£29,032), Hampshire (£28,716), Milton Keynes (£28,605), Oxfordshire (£28,480) and the City of Edinburgh (£28,386).
The 10 areas with the lowest average gross annual earnings are the isle of Wight (£21,325), Powys (£21,249), Torbay (£21,173), East Renfrewshire (£21,150), Ceredigion (£21,085), Rutland (£21,048), Denbighshire (£20,860), Scottish Borders (£20,756), Darlington (£20,550) and Moray where the average salary of £20,447 puts workers at just 72% of the national average.
CJ Brough, a spokesman for Payfinder, which produces similar figures says: “Most people have this idea that people put up with the rat race for the larger salaries, but ultimately look forward to moving to the country where they will be paid less but at the same time have lower living costs. We found that all the areas that had low living costs had low salaries too.”
She believes there is one region which seems to get the balance right - Scotland came third in the Payfinder Wealth Index despite its average salary falling below the UK average.
08 November 2006, 11:08 AM
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Nicer people.
Better roads.
Cheaper houses.
Better beer.
Less crime.
Cheaper insurance.
And Walter is improving the football team.
If I won the "Euromillions" lottery I would not live anywhere else!!!!!!
Might have a few holiday homes tho.
Better roads.
Cheaper houses.
Better beer.
Less crime.
Cheaper insurance.
And Walter is improving the football team.
If I won the "Euromillions" lottery I would not live anywhere else!!!!!!
Might have a few holiday homes tho.
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08 November 2006, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by WHEELSHOP0_0
Nicer people.
Originally Posted by WHEELSHOP0_0
Better roads.
Originally Posted by WHEELSHOP0_0
Cheaper houses.
Originally Posted by WHEELSHOP0_0
Better beer.
Originally Posted by WHEELSHOP0_0
Less crime.
Originally Posted by WHEELSHOP0_0
Cheaper insurance.
Originally Posted by WHEELSHOP0_0
And Walter is improving the football team.
Originally Posted by WHEELSHOP0_0
If I won the "Euromillions" lottery I would not live anywhere else!!!!!!
Originally Posted by WHEELSHOP0_0
Might have a few holiday homes tho.
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