> > How much should be the lower limit to keep a family > > happy (happy means with enough money for a flat, food, > > clothes, entertainment, education and something to > > save for the future) ? > > $salary = 30000 + (sizeof($family) * 10000); This may seem obvious, but make sure you get paid in POUNDS. We had an employee (a friend of mine) "start a UK office", and due to corporate legal reasons, and taxes, etc, he got paid in US DOLLARS. Aside from even more legal/tax issues he personally had to face, his salary was almost halved, as 1 USD = 1.9696 GBP !! http://www.x-rates.com/ The UK is VERY expensive. If I were you, I would do some online research at the cost of fuel/petrol/gas/whatever you call it, rent, purchasing homes, taxes (don't they have VAT and GST or something like that?), an average lunch meal, dinner meal, utilities, car price, etc... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php