cost of living in the uk

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sorry, me again.

I need to work out how much we can spend on rent when we move back to the UK. I've looked up council tax and i have a good idea of food prices and childcare, but could you kind people possibly help me with...

price of heating a medium sized 3 bed house these days?
water rates in sheffield/derbyshire
adsl/telly deals (dh needs sky apparently, but no sports or anything like that).

and have I forgotten anything?

if you don't want sport you could just get freeview which is one off cost of box and then free

oh unless you need movies i guess

Heating house depends on if is terraced or detatched, how well insulated etc. this calculator may help you

ADSL you can get v cheap with free phone calls through talktalk if you can bear them

Otherwise about £10 a month for 1mb broadband

wow a tenner a month. that'll save us a bit then.

unfortunately dh "needs" sky one because of the US sci fi stuff.

SP,
We were in South Yorks up until June this year so I can tell you what we paid roughly.

Water was on a meter and we paid roughly anywhere between £50-£70 a quarter. Heating I'm not so sure on, thats dh's dept. It wasn't huge I know that.

Telly deals, well you can get NTL who do a cable package for £30 a month so you get TV, Internet and phone. You can only get that in certain areas though. If you know the postcode you can type it in on their site and it will tell you if you can have it.
Sky have also started doing free broadband but as its just come out its only in certain areas. They do TV and phone packages also.

Currently we have the full sky package which costs just over £40 a month.
If your dh doesn't want sports, why not just buy one of the freeview boxes that plug into your tv. You get loads of channels with them now.

Isn't sky one on freeview?

Don' t know I never ever watch sky1

Well our box is quite old and don't have sky one but I believe the newer boxes have more channels.

Another option for broadband is through Orange but again it depends on circumstances.
You can have free broadband up to 8Mb if you have a £30 a month contract with them. Thats what we're doing and its been great. Fantastic customer support and after sales etc.

We have freeview with film four and thatv is more than enough tbh

We pay £37 a month for sky with all the channels and movies, but they always do offers where you get the first 3 months for £10.

No idea about heating and I live in Hull where the internet is EXTAUTIONATE (thats a bad spelling v.sorry)

Gas+Lekki: runs about £1000 per annum nowadays (has gone up enormously).
I imagine water rates up north aren't too bad. Maybe £300 per year, all in?

excellent, thanks. are ntl still the bastards they used to be though?

and have I forgotten anything?

I've been trying to convince dh that we won't lose out too much because what we pay out on council tax and water (which is about 10p a month here), we'll save on leccy and broadband. mind you, there'll be all that extra heating.

I've got last year's leccy and heating oil figures in front of me because I'm supposed to be doing the accounts. last year (april 05-april 06) we spent at least 1500 pounds and I think it's actually 1700 because there seems to be a receipt missing. bugger. I wonder where that is.