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I've lived in Birmingham and London - the costs aren't as different as you might think
“How much is a pint down there these days?” - as a native southerner living in Birmingham, I got very used to answering this question. Much in the same way that a Fredo chocolate bar is used as the nation’s yardstick to measure inflation, the cost of a …