Back to the original question I live in london and we have also had a rise in unemployment, in vertualyl all fields of work. Althought i have to say at the same time that all the people that i know that have been affected by crisis have had the hours they work cut, and so they still have jobs. although i havent directly been affected yet, i will be going to university next year and as a result of the economy and the goverments spending cuts and funding for higher education, the universities funding is being cut and to conpensate for this universities are increasing the yearly fess. currently the fee for this year is £3,290 where as some universities will be charging up to £7000. This is definiterly not good for me especially since i will need a student loan to pay the fees off.
As soem f you know i am portuguese and portugal has definiterly not been handing the economic crisis as well as england. I know several people in portugal that have been hardly hit by the recession and now the goverment is planning a further increase in taxes to 23%