I and some of my colleagues were just as strapped as you lot have been/are, even more so when you consider that income tax was much higher back then and we walked out with about £720 a month.
Whilst I appreciate Standard Noise and others at the college were there a lot longer than students are now, I think I would take £720 a month in 1992/3 over £940 now every time.
Cost of petrol, beer, cigarettes doubled or more than doubled. (I know, we don't have to drink and smoke!)
Car tax + insurance skyrocketed.
Food - can't remember how much my weekly shop was when I was a student in the mid 90s but it was a LOT less than now. Of course I now only shop at Waitrose (organic, naturally) and have progressed from cod roe to caviar!
Then again, I'm from the days of £1500 take home a month and living like a king so can't fully appreciate how tight things are/were for today's students and Standard Noise's generation.
I think I was the only one on my course not to buy that BMW/Merc/convertable after passing Aerodrome 2! Rich
