I know nothing of economics, two of my close friends did it university, joy to go to the local with when it was open. That said i always felt refreshed after, nothing beats a good sleep. The thing is, is this hobby dearer than what it was year's ago. I think about it when i see threads like this one, and try to remember back. It's easy to look at the past with rose coloured glasses. I do know that i and those i knew in this hobby year's ago only really had one train set to play with. And it took a life time to build a biggish layout, if you where lucky. People now can go straight into a biggish layout with all the bells a whistles within a month or two. How many loco's wagons, coaches and such did your average person have back then. I see some youtuber's with shelves of loco's and rolling stock. Sorry for derailing the thread OP, as for moving back to the UK, it would be great. Would it be good for us, i don't know.