It's not grim up North!

Mistermeaner

Yep. Keep thinking it's grim and stay down there with your over populated city, inflated house prices and metal horses.

lisyloo

And bridges, infrastructure (tadcasters been on the news), dry land, sunshine etc.

Mistermeaner

If you sold your gaff and moved in with me we could both retire.

Just picture it..... long walks along the canal, holding hands as we avoid the needles on the way to raid the bins behind greggs

kinger101

veryintrigued wrote: »

Has there been any research on disposal income North v South?

Yes. Up North we spend it on beer (or Buckfast if you go too far). Down South you spend it on shandy.

Yorkie1

wymondham wrote: »

We're going up to Whitby for a long weekend so hopefully this should help ... I promise to spend on pastys and chips!

Fish and chips in Whitby, not pasties! :beer:

Generali wrote: »

The top of the North Circular goes east-west as does the bottom of the South Circular.

Who on earth would want to go transverse across The North? Surely you'd want to get the heck out of there.

It's grim up north.

Well, I can entirely understand people wanting to get out of Lancashire to God's own county t'other side of Pennines

veryintrigued

kinger101 wrote: »

Yes. Up North we spend it on beer (or Buckfast if you go too far). Down South you spend it on shandy.

I think you've (wrongly) assumed that I'm a southerner.

I spent some of my D.I. becoming mortgage free by mid 30s, semi retiring early 40s and travelling as extensively and enjoying ourselves as we can.

Salaries and house prices are a smoke screen for the only thing that matters (in monetary terms) and that is disposable income.

As someone else has hinted at on this thread inflated house prices, services, groceries has no interest to me.

PS I like real ale or two too (as long as its under £3) ;-)

kinger101

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Fish and chips in Whitby, not pasties! :beer:

I usually consider myself as being in the south when you can't get mushy peas.

Generali

veryintrigued wrote: »

Has there been any research on disposal income North v South?

It depends on what you mean by disposable. The Office for National Statistics produces ASHE on a quarterly (?) basis which shows earnings on a regional basis.

kinger101

Generali wrote: »

It depends on what you mean by disposable. The Office for National Statistics produces ASHE on a quarterly (?) basis which shows earnings on a regional basis.

There is this too.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/regional-accounts/regional-household-income/regional-gross-disposable-household-income--gdhi--2013/sty.html

Not had a play with it, but if it's based only on means, I'm not sure it's particularly useful.

veryintrigued

kinger101 wrote: »

There is this too.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Regional+Gross+Disposable+Household+Income

Not had a play with it, but if it's based only on means, I'm not sure it's particularly useful.

I get :

No Data to display for Regional Gross Disposable Househol d Income.