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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:33:25 GMT
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- From: Graham Toal
- <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: Early morning blues...
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- >afford it. I guess I'd better go do my sums. Is it possible to
- >live off 13K a year? Ho hum...
-
- Is that pounds sterling? The cost of living must be high where you are
- because my income has been about half that for the past three years and
- we've been living comfortably..... all six of us.
-
- Got room for one more? My tiny little 1-room flat costs between 600
- and 450 pounds depending on the mortgage rate. (A month) Yes, cost
- of living here is *very* high. Sending out for a pizza costs about
- 10 pounds, if that's a better yardstick for you. 4 or 5 times as much
- as the equivalent in the US.
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- G
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