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Originally Posted by Gary L
£200 a week was a good wage 10 years ago for many. cigarettes were probably £2 for 20 then.
did you have any commitments, or were you living with parents at the time?
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As mentioned earlier in the thread, I was still living with my parents when I first started working for £10k per year. I did contribute each month, though (albeit not full market rates of course), plus had student debts to pay along with bus travel expenses. Once I started living in Cambridge in 2001, on just under £13k per year, I was living in rented accommodation, so had to fork out rent + utilities + food etc. each month.