[thelist] Web work in London?

[Howard Scott]

200-300 a week for a room in a house!

Where do you live? The Ritz?

That's very expensive. I suggest you move :)

"H"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesus Gonzalez Gorriti [mailto:Jesus.Gorriti at iconmedialab.es]
> Sent: 08 January 2001 16:38
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: RV: [thelist] Web work in London?
> 
> 
> 
> I work and live in Spain but I have been
> in London for a while and have a few friends
> working in net companies over there, so I guess
> I can speak a bit about it.
> 
> Life is VERY expensive. And salaries ain't that
> high.
> 
> Example: You can get a 30k pounds a year salary if
> you work as Web Developer/Designer. Before taxes. :)
> And expect to pay around 200-300 pounds a week for
> renting a room in a shared house. And London houses
> tend to be small.
> 
> Food is damn expensive too as well as most free time
> related activities such as restaurants, cinema, etc.
> A tshirt tends to cost around 15 pounds.
> 
> On the other hand London is a great place. There
> is always something happening somewhere. (www.timeout.com)
> There are shops that sells things you would never ever
> found somewhere else, pubs all around, great discos,
> awesome museums (the new Tate Modern by Herzog and De Meuron
> is breathtaking, and Norman Foster lives in that city for feck's
> sake). You will love London. And you will probably end hating it
> to. An american friend of mine compared it to New York (I've
> been to NY, but never lived there).
> 
> (I am secretly in love with London, really)
> 
> How about this info for a starter?
> 
> Jesús Gorriti // Art Direction Designer // IconMedialab Spain
> 
> 
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Michael Lovitt [mailto:mlovitt at oaksanderson.com]
> Enviado el: domingo, 07 de enero de 2001 2:45
> Para: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Asunto: [thelist] Web work in London?
> 
> 
> What kind of freelance and full-time Web work is available
> in London and what does it pay? I'm currently a Web
> developer in Austin, Texas in the U.S., where I make a nice
> living, and I'm wondering how that would change if I
> relocated to London. One factor I'm aware of is London's
> high cost of living. Do Web jobs pay enough to off-set that?
> 
> I'd appreciate any feedback from Web designers/developers
> working in London, and especially from those who moved there
> from the U.S.
> 
> (I have four years experience in client- and server-side
> scripting (e.g., HTML, Javascript, ASP) as well as in
> managing large-scale Web application development.)
> 
> Thanks
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
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