We've been affected - but not too badly. I lost my job last year when the Firm I worked for went Bankrupt. Since then I haven't been able to find permenant work, however I was fortunate to get a temp role. I hate it, it pays bad, but at least it is bringing in a few ?'s. I currently live in the UK and it is awful over here - everyone is being made redundant! The candidate market is real tough.

Also the exchange rate has dropped - once you could transfer ?10,000 back to Australia and get $25,000 - if I transferred today I would get $21,000.

Our financial goals have been put on hold - but really we could be so much worse off!

On an upside, we asked our landlord to reduce our rent, because rental market property prices has decreased in the UK. She said yes and we know pay ?80 less month. All helps!