Sounds like I should move to the U.K. for work, if it weren't for horrible food... maybe I could start a beer diet.

Nihil, as far as lowering costs. Over here you have too many egomaniacs that JUST HAVE to have that big office to compensate for there inability to please their women. They'd rather not buy tools, or software, or some such other worthless thing that downsize their office. It's a sickness, I tell ya, a sickness.