Middlesbrough best value place to live in the UK

I was pleasantly surprised by the average wage. We have parity with the more famous ex steel town Sheffield and actually do OK compared to other Northern towns. That's good news. Rents are super low too.
 
SmallTown said:
I was pleasantly surprised by the average wage. We have parity with the more famous ex steel town Sheffield and actually do OK compared to other Northern towns. That's good news. Rents are super low too.
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Not sure I'd believe the average wage. I find it hard to believe the average wage is that high on Teesside. Why is Middlesbrough so much higher than Sunderland? It's based on adverts on that job website, Adzuna, which isn't the same as actual earnings and doesn't take into account part time workers etc. I'd imagine Middlesbrough and Sunderland are fairly similar for earnings, as they are for rent.
 
Nano said:
Not sure I'd believe the average wage. I find it hard to believe the average wage is that high on Teesside. Why is Middlesbrough so much higher than Sunderland? It's based on adverts on that job website, Adzuna, which isn't the same as actual earnings and doesn't take into account part time workers etc. I'd imagine Middlesbrough and Sunderland are fairly similar for earnings, as they are for rent.
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Oh. Maybe you're right. I was just trying to take positives from it
 
Nano said:
Not sure I'd believe the average wage. I find it hard to believe the average wage is that high on Teesside. Why is Middlesbrough so much higher than Sunderland? It's based on adverts on that job website, Adzuna, which isn't the same as actual earnings and doesn't take into account part time workers etc. I'd imagine Middlesbrough and Sunderland are fairly similar for earnings, as they are for rent.
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Looking at the below link from the office of national statistics in the gazette from 2022 the average income for Middlesbrough then was around 32500. Thats at least a year prior to the figures given by Adzuna.
Edit: There's at least 21 months between the figures given

www.gazettelive.co.uk

The huge income gap between Teesside's richest and poorest postcodes

Some parts of the region have twice as much income as households just a few miles away
www.gazettelive.co.uk www.gazettelive.co.uk
 
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Scaffs , offshore , and class A supply will boost the local economy 😂😂

In all seriousness, two out of the three + the uni + a massive hospital, has a lot of people above the average local wage, whilst relatively cheap house prices / rent.
How anyone does nursing for example and lives in a major city / the south perplexes me
 
Teesside used to have a decent average wage. Possibly because of shift work, some specialist industrial jobs, people working away on rigs, in deserts, on ships etc. However this has probably changed in the last 30 years. I had an uncle who probably earned over £40k/year as a ships engineer on coastal oil tankers and the ex council house in Eston he lived in was probably worth £70k.
 
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