For my husband to earn £65,000 per annum and we still can't afford to live in this bloody country!!

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Mortgage has gone up, electric has gone up, 5 mouths to feed, 3 children to clothe etc etc and month after month is a bloody struggle. Am fed up with straping money together when my husband earns a good wage and we should be able to get by! I now need to search for a way of 'me' bringing in some money but with a young baby at home and 2 others at school i am at a loss as to how! Please give me some job ideas or ways to make money!!

good on you, littleredshoe

I doubt that on £65k anyone is living in a 'nice' area of London.

Oh no sirree!

I think you'll find, MP, that is a basic human right, along with food, water and broadband, how very dare you suggest otherwise?!

(I am joking, obv)

lol @ broadband

you forgot iphones

mp i think it is in a human rights treaty....perhaps?

anyway what grub do you want from outside the fairytale land of somerset???

cheap housing, mp, etcetc

I didn't say it was mp. Just comparing like for like. And some of us have to live in London for work

mp,please tell more about Somerset,am v curious.

Which towns/villages are the good ones?

Live in Manchester at present but having been thinking about the Southwest for a while.....

The area of manchester we live in is more expensive than Cheshire, going out costs the same as London.

Is Somerset really more reasonable?

wickedwaterwitch - you are spot on. Some people just do not get it.

OK I would like:

• Anything from Pret a Manager particularly their rocket and crayfish sandwiches and brownies
• croissants
• bagels
• nice coffee that I have not brewed myself using more equipment than is utilised by the Afghanistan opium industry
• some nice stationery from Paperchase

thank you very much

God a big no to somerset!

Aren't the locals all a bit weird there?

peacelily, watchout, schools are shit in some areas (eg Bristol) but if you can afford private don't worry about it

and of course you will live in mansion!

Littleredshoe I'm not interested in slating cowardly name changers, but let me assure you that you could survive on £65K.

You might not be able to live in your posh house or send your kids to their current schools, but there has so far been no recorded case of a cause of death being recorded as "deceased in possession of a £64,999 annual income".

You're quite safe.

They are a BIT weird

You just have to find the people who have moved down from London

they are easy to spot because they are hunting for bagels

mp perhaps we can do house swap for holidays. east london / somerset nae difference innit. bad food is common factor.

Littlewhizz

shurley paperchase is just full of cards effing and blinding at the mo....(other thread)

the most exciting thing for my mum when she visits from Belfast is that there is a French cafe here with real croissants and decent coffee

Paperchase have lovely shiny fiddly christmassy things

I'm not suffering from anxiety or panic attacks like the OP and my DP earns more than £65k so come and 'ave a go if you think you're 'ard enough...I'll 'ave yer...

All my friends who have moved to Somerset spend their lives at Babington House - bankrupting themselves further. Just to keep up with their new neighbours.....

LOL - 'we're going on a bear bagel hunt'

I don't think new consultants get much say in where they work - new consultant posts are about as rare as a solvent bank these days.

cowardly name changers?

wtf?

Oh please. People are forever posting on AIBU saying they are going to kill people - it is a turn of phrase.

Hmmmm, luckily here the state schools are good enough, esp primaries (not allof manc just a couple of areas esp Trafford and Stockport).

As for London, all our friends who love there earn considerably more than £65 and live in ok/just about acceptable/dodgyish areas. At least up here we can just about afford the nicish suburb that's trying to be Islington!! Also better because lots more parks and countryside

There is a 'Nice lifestyle, replete with goode wine and Boden, Aye' addendum clause to the the Treaty signed at Runnymede. It's often overlooked.