{"id":563,"date":"2016-02-23T18:16:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2016-02-23T18:16:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:16:55","slug":"enterprising-london-commuter-discovers-its-cheaper-to-work-live-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/enterprising-london-commuter-discovers-its-cheaper-to-work-live-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprising London commuter discovers it\u2019s cheaper to work, live elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishbullsh.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.britishbullsh.it<\/a>. Click\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/tag\/british-bull\">here<\/a> for more of my articles.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Does not commute: IT boffin and ex-Londoner Paul Tunnock crunched the numbers and saved himself a fortune.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_564\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marktee\/8127887164\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-564 noopener noreferrer\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-564\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-564 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/45.77.89.248\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/9b051e_106e50027d1440a88a4da6b6ddab2fd5.jpg\" alt=\"9b051e_106e50027d1440a88a4da6b6ddab2fd5\" width=\"700\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/9b051e_106e50027d1440a88a4da6b6ddab2fd5.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/9b051e_106e50027d1440a88a4da6b6ddab2fd5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Computer bod Tunnock, now living in Clackmannan, Scotland. Photograph: @marktee<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>After 8 years of living and commuting within the larger London area, tech whiz Paul Tunnock, 41, had finally had enough of London\u2019s extortionate house prices and cost of living, and turned his prodigious programmer talents to finding a solution to his money woes.<\/p>\n<p>The gleeful geek typed up an algorithm which, after plugging in a series of spreadsheets of housing market data, wages, and cost of living indices, clunked out an answer. The machine\u2019s advice? To not live or work in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really quite obvious in retrospect,\u201d laughs Tunnock, who promptly upped sticks and moved his family to Clackmannan in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife wouldn\u2019t believe it at first,\u201d he continues, sitting on a bench in Johnstone &amp; Cochrane Park, shoulders hunched against the wind and driving rain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe kept crying and asking me if I was serious. But the machine doesn\u2019t lie. We\u2019re living the dream out here. Yesterday I bought a car for the price of a mixed salad!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tunnock\u2019s revelation comes months after fellow ex-Londoners Gary Bule and David Lawrie performed their own great escapes: the former commuting from Barcelona, and the latter from the beaches of Barbados.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally published on www.britishbullsh.it. Click\u00a0here for more of my articles.) Does not commute: IT boffin and ex-Londoner Paul Tunnock crunched the numbers and saved himself a fortune. After 8 years of living and commuting within the larger London area, tech whiz Paul Tunnock, 41, had finally had enough of London\u2019s extortionate house prices and cost&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/enterprising-london-commuter-discovers-its-cheaper-to-work-live-elsewhere\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enterprising London commuter discovers it\u2019s cheaper to work, live elsewhere<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[40,54,113,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}