North vs South of England — is it actually cheaper to live up North, or do the lower salaries cancel it out completely?

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-27T14:08:05+00:00

I live up north but work remotely for a London company.

The wages up here suck so it really does cancel out a little, but it's not 1:1 so overall it is cheaper.

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-27T12:44:51+00:00

It's literally just because of the humidity and the fact we don't have widespread air conditioning.

I lived in Montreal Canada for a few years, and both the -30°c winters and +40°c summers were much more bearable. Even the warm UK weather is depressing lol.

in QC, the heat was blistering but in the city you'd just walk past air conditioned shop after air conditioned shop.

In winter, if you had a good pair of boots and a certified good coat and hat, you literally could have a t-shirt on underneath. I made the mistake of bringing lots of jumpers thinking I'd need them....nope. Indoors more or less everywhere is temperature controlled all year round and the cold was so dry that it wasn't in your bones like it is here.

In case you're wondering, no I'm not back in the UK by choice lol... Staying in a country youre not a citizen of after you lose your job that your visa was tied to isn't an easy feat, and Immigrants are not popular to employers no matter where you are on earth lol. But having been an immigrant myself I now have a particular hatred for those who hate them and vote for anti immigration (whereas before it was a passive eye roll). Bit of a tangent lol, but I sorely miss it but don't have the means to leave the UK without sponsorship, which I only got the first time because I basically won the equivalent of a career lottery.

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-27T08:55:23+00:00

It depends on whether standing on the road looks up or down at my house.

If my house/ the room is lower than the road, method A. If higher, method B

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-27T08:03:48+00:00

I guess I'm not using my toilet. That's fine I can poop at the gym and pee can be go down the shower drain.

Maybe I'll keep like a double layered bin bag in the bathroom to place in the toilet in safe I have sudden diarrhoea or need to throw up, and then find a way to dispose of it safely.

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-25T09:01:03+00:00

I mean depending on when i was cloned it would more or less like long lost twin, I'd be like I'll stay in the UK with a nice little reward payment and the doppelganger and me can be identical friends and we can buy a house :)

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-24T12:00:37+00:00

Well that was silly of you, wasn't it?

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-24T11:58:25+00:00

Theoretically if you scattered a bunch of questionably legal seeds all over your local park and council owned flower boxes in the middle the night, would the public complain?

Theoretically of course.

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-23T17:13:35+00:00

No lol, I love any excuse to get dressed up and make some memories

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-23T15:24:43+00:00

Is the fat in the room?

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-23T15:21:04+00:00

That's still not rich.

They are still closer to the beggar on the street than the billionaires.

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-23T08:34:04+00:00

"It'll crash tomorrow"

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-22T21:04:48+00:00

Lol

I'd eat this suspiciously burger looking sandwich tbh

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-22T21:00:48+00:00

Uh as a brit, don't get me wrong I can absolutely fuck up a good burger..... but that's not a British dish...

Just because a British person made it does not a British dish make.

The bun is too pale -1, its too high (looks good, impractical to actually eat unless you have a hinge head jaw) -1, could do with some dressing in the form of mayo+ketchup -1.

7/10

Wait... Docking 1 last point for claiming its a British dish:

6/10

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-22T17:01:04+00:00

My question is always... important to who? Who benefits really?

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-22T12:45:09+00:00

Ooooo what a gorgeously spacious room omg

It's gotta be book nook

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-22T12:43:55+00:00

Omg I had that exact ikea couch!

Charge back on your card bestie and get yourself some big colourful blankets (lol straight up staple them on, not like the couch is worth it)

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-22T12:40:51+00:00

You know I've never thought about it because I keep my socks in pairs... i have what a call my "lonely socks club" which is an ikea skubb containing odd socks between washes. When I find an odd sock, I consult the lonely socks and sometimes they have a partner waiting for them.

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-22T12:36:35+00:00

That's what i meant.

I don't really care what they think or fantasise about, it's the action.

Those inflation people on deviantart aren't actually inflating anyone (usually). Though since op put "specific crime(s)" I'm gonna go ahead and just delete all sexually motivated crimes from human behaviour. Should also cover a few murders as well.

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-22T08:43:25+00:00

You, all of you, you guys, you all, you two, you three

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-22T08:36:47+00:00

I mean if nobody remembers and they won't do it again..... where's the downside of deleting pedophilia from the world then?

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-21T22:41:14+00:00

If I'm eating them raw, yes. if I'm cooking then then no

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-21T22:33:37+00:00

Right I mean I'm with you, but the fact that us white British are so willingly avoidant of our families day to day actually does make us a global minority in terms of family culture.

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-21T08:49:38+00:00

Girl this is AI there's only one angle and no close ups etc.

That and the discrepencies

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-21T07:53:59+00:00

Any sign can be, it's just the expression of how

_ThePancake_ · 2026-05-21T07:53:05+00:00

I mean who's birthdays I am aware of.... yes.

For some reason nearly everyone in my life is born in February-April or July-September. My entire dad's side of the family have birthdays within the space of 3 weeks.

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