Thanks Peter for that perspective. Little there I'd disagree with though I suspect some of the retail stull like Costa Drive thru may be less prevalent away from relatively well heeled West Sussex. The North/South thing is a generalisation, there are seriously disadvantaged areas in the South East including some London boroughs and the more benighted areas of Kent, Essex etc as well as further out.
Equally there are economic hotspots in the North. My department was paying more in Leeds than Bradford before I left the Civil Service in 2013.
>> Even on the bottom rung the local Amazon distribution centre
>> pays £10.70 an hour, time and a half over 40 hours and double time over
>> 50. So money can be earned.
Sure money can be earned but for context:
40hours at £10.70 is £428/week gross. Add two kids into the family, the younger is a boy at Primary School, the older in her teens. Their Mother does 25 hours as National Living Wage. Renting a 3 bed house at the 'market rate' for the Chichester area is not far off a grand a month.
They'd qualify for Universal Credit of approx £750/month.
As with those out of work it's housing costs in a private rental that are the killer.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Tue 10 Nov 20 at 15:31
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