Nick Cohen observed in a recent Spectator:
‘The graduates of Oxford’s Politics, Philosophy and Economics course form the largest single component of the most despised generation of politicians since the Great Reform Act.’
Who could argue? However, Oxford does not only lead the UK in punting, prime minister production and sales of academic gowns. Here are four more nightmarish records held by the city of dreaming spires:
1. Oxford is the most expensive locale in the UK outside of London. The average price-tag on a house in Oxford is £340,864 – eleven times average local annual earnings; also, roughly two-and-a-half times the typical house price in the UK’s cheapest city, Stirling, per the figures from Lloyds Bank. A two-bedroom, no-terrace flat in Oxford’s Islington-esque Summertown will set you back roughly £500,000.
2. Oxford is a hotspot… for the homeless. Oxford’s housing crisis means that we have one of the highest rates of homelessness in the country.
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