>>>>I don't think anyone could offer enough remuneration to lure me back to London (or NYC for that matter) :-}
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>>>>"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford." <bg>
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>>>Been in London lately Charles ? In Johnsons day it was the size of a large town.
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>>>There is a good size for places (Cambridge, Bath and Oxford spring to mind )
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>>Yeah, I admit I'd rather live in Wiltshire or maybe Surrey. (though the places I fancy I think belong to the National Trust <s> ) Cambridge and Oxford have always been fantasies, but part of that is my passion for gargoyles.
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>>First thing I thought of when I saw a London/NY job posting is : why would you want to put a software business someplace where the cost of living is among the highest in the world - especially if you pay SFA.
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>Stourhead ?
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>http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-stourhead/w-stourhead-photo_gallery.htm

Magical place. I did a month once really pigging out on NT and other historic houses, so a lot of them run together in my head. Longleat and Bowood get mixed in there. I think it was Bowood that had the really cool ruined abbey built for romantic charm and maybe the great Regency interior, but that might have been someplace else ( I still have all the brochures etc here someplace) I seem to remember it was the place where Byron is supposed to have gone to a costume ball as a pasha with Lady Caroline Lamb naked and painted as a slave. I do remember the gardens at both Stourhead and Bowood. I also seem to remember stories from friends in the 60s about Longleat and lots and lots of acid <bg>