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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8214087, member: 110350&quot;]This offered compensation may well be standard for a senior position in even a major museum, whether in the US or the UK. Of course I knew that already when I introduced the subject; my comment wasn&#039;t meant to be entirely serious. But I can assure you that the people who work in museums, at least the ones I&#039;ve known, aren&#039;t at all happy about it. Especially when people in administrative and fundraising positions make multiples of their salary. And that&#039;s why I made the point I did.</p><p><br /></p><p>From what I understand, the cost of living in London, particularly for housing (whether buying or renting) is similar to New York City. In other words, incomprehensibly expensive to people who live elsewhere in the US or UK, even in some large cities. Nobody who doesn&#039;t already have significant savings (or is provided with housing gratis) could afford to live in either London or New York City on that kind of salary, in the manner expected of the head of a department at one of the most prominent museums in the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>In terms of space, nobody in New York City or some other large cities in the USA would be surprised at how small houses and apartments are in London, or would expect more. So the generalization about what &quot;Americans&quot; expect is highly inaccurate. My 1 1/2 bedroom (a/k/a &quot;junior 4&quot;) apartment in northern Manhattan is huge by the standards of that borough -- about 900 square feet -- and I can only afford it because I live way up here, far from what people think of when they think of Manhattan. It&#039;s more than large enough for me as someone who lives here alone except when my son stays with me. (The only problem is that with my thousands of books, there&#039;s little or no room for any more, which is why for the last few years I buy fiction only in Kindle form; the only hard copy books I still buy are non-fiction. Like books on coins!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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