London

heh. Still, you're paying about 1/2 what I am - how many people live
in your flat?

There are 4 in our house, and it would easily accomodate 6.

 

*wince*

 

Trendy or chic parts of London are hideously expensive, £500k is not very
much at all for a house (I can't believe I just wrote that... it's not as if
I've got a half a million quid burning a hole in my pocket). Obviously there
are cheaper parts of London, much cheaper, but they tend to be a bit pikey.
You can spend £2 million on a house in nice London as easily as falling off
of a log. Bloody expensive init? The upside to getting on the posh property
ladder in London is that whilst at first it sucks every single penny you
have right out of your bank account (as it would do pretty much anywhere,
most of us max out on our first purchase) it does get easier pretty quickly,
then if like me you're not originally from London and consider moving out
again some time in the future you've got yourself a wacking great big chunk
of equity with which to (hopefully) buy a place out in the sticks outright,
no mortgage, no worries. Oh, unless the property market collapses
spectacularly again that is.

ZK

 

Try 13-14 minutes - according to the timetable.

that sounds about right.

 

A million what?

 

Francs, a non existent currency often used to purchase non existent
motorcycles like the imaginary R1.

 

I hope not, or we'll have folks going on for years about how we ought
to have an enquiry into it.

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Most supermarkets in France (IME) still display the prices in FF as well
as Euros.

 

said...

They were in the south when I was there last week.

 

Are FF still in circulation/legal tender?

 

Not, but that don't stop them displaying the price in FF

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So they can use non existant money, but British greengrocers can't use
pounds and ounces? That's fair, isn't it.

 

Don't milk it.

 

Yeah, life sucks
FWIW I*T*YF that British greengrocers can display prices in pounds and
ounces as long as they also display in grams. But they can't *sell*
you a pound of greens.
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2 lumps of coal and a bag of spuds.

80k in St Helens now !

Except he was funny.

 

I don't think anything would stop British Greengrocers showing the price
in pounds as well as kilos should they wish to.

I wish we'd just get on with it and go to the full metric system and
whilst we're about it change the side of the road we drive on.

 

I don't think this will ever happen.

 

I suspect you're right. Norway did it in the early 70s, I suspect now
is far too late with the number of cars on the road.

Maybe we could phase it in and start with all new cars?

I wish it would happen though. Only because I'd like to watch all the
inevitable accidents.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
typed

Sweden, I think. Although, given that Norway split from Sweden in the
1920's (?) it's possible they both did.

So do I.

 

Why not just try it anyway? You might start a trend.