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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you guys only thinking of London?  Other places outside of London aren't as expensive.  I have relatives in the UK, not in London, and the real estate prices aren't *that* bad.

As for the prospects of a job in the US, I think it would depend on the field.  Maybe times have changed a lot, but I know several people with just UK undergrads that have gotten jobs here in the past 15 yrs.[/quote]

Most of the south is pretty expensive. And the rest of the country is cheap for a reason.
The weather in the south is fine, and it many ways better than here - at least it is less extreme. But once you go up north the weather is significantly worse. even a 4 degrees centigrade average temp diff makes the difference between pleasant summers and miserable ones. And London offers cultural life - and airports for easy minibreaks in europe - that the rest of the country can't match. Too bad it is being turned into a playground for Russian oligarchs and other assorted kleptocrats.[/quote]

My relatives live in the South of England, and it's on par with some of the less expensive DC areas, I would say.  So, it's expensive by average US standards, but still cheaper than expensive places like NYC, Bay Area of CA and close-in DC.  While it is not London as far as cultural life, for a college student, as long as the town has a good college life, I think that's enough.  What you are saying is that people shouldn't go to Yale, for example, because it's in the middle of a horrible area.   There are good colleges in the UK that are not in the London area.[/quote]

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