London has been hard hit by the recession, with jobs disappearing, businesses being taken over and people are generally finding that life is not as it once was. Sometimes people lose their job very quickly, going into work one day only to find out that their company has gone bankrupt or hearing one week that the company is fine, only for it to go belly up the next week. So it is little wonder that so many people have found themselves in debt.
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Leeds is in the heart of Yorkshire and Yorkshire people often have a reputation as being careful with money. Historically, people from Yorkshire were seen as prudent, careful, not profligate with money and then of course, the credit crunch came and even the most careful and prudent Yorkshire people found that their savings had all but disappeared, that life was much tougher than it had been, all at a time when businesses were going bankrupt and small businesses were suffering from other companies not paying their bills.
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