42k in Reading?

[NervousNellie29]

AIBU to think that a family of four will struggle to survive on a salary of 42k a year pretax while renting?

It is a well known tactic for family buinesses to keep the sons on relatively low pay so that if there is a divorce a non working wife has very low or no claims. Therefore I think earning more than your husband (what I always did) tends to be the best thing even if the man doesn't like to have to chase home from work to collect the baby from nursery! Women need money and power, not depending on silly useless men. You protect your children in fact by full time work. So even if you took a full time job in a shop over the weekends that would surely help a bit and your husband and his family would have to do the childcare from Friday night to Monday morning which would surely not kill them!

reading is a better place for your children to grow up and job opportunities ar ebetter there than where you are actually so do not reject a move and houses can rent for £1k there which is not an impossible sum. Do you own shares in the family limited company and does your husband or just his parents?

I don't think it's a family owned company Janet just that the DH's father is a higher manager than the son.

Also, there's nothing wrong with Gloucestershire, it's hardly a hotbed of deprivation!

You really can't get a 2 bedroom flat in Reading for 100k. They just don't exist, even in the worst area.

I agree with Tinkly. Our two bedroom flat is valued at 240k...

Property in Reading is at ridiculous prices. I don't know if it's possible but I would seriously advise not taking the promotion if it means you have to move here. DP and I are moving up north after realising that what we pay for a pokey one bedroom flat can get us a three bedroom house elsewhere. Unless you are certain you can afford the high prices, it's probably not a good move.