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Oxford City in England is home to one of the world's prestigious universities; it's a cosmopolitan city teeming with locals and foreigners, a bustling cultural scene and the base of a British car industry icon.
But these days, Oxford is also home to thousands of people struggling to makemeet as they cope with unemployment.
Thirty-four-year-old Mark Prince earned 1,600 GBP a month (2,354 USD) working as a welder at the Honda car plant which sits next to the better known Mini Cooper plant.
In late January, Prince was made redundant, forcing him to join the more than 2,000 workers who have been laid off in Oxford's car industry sector.
And despite his technical qualifications, finding a job has not been easy.
"I've got three trainings. I'm a qualified welder, I'm a qualified pressurised suit worker and I'm a qualified asbestos remover. Trying to find, even trying to find a job emptying recycle bins, it's hard trying to get jobs for that now. Cleaning jobs, it's hard to get cleaning jobs. There's nothing's been advertised on the papers. no nothing whatsoever," said Prince.
Prince is being supported by his partner who now has to work a gruelling 85 hours a week at a local supermarket just to make an estimated 1,100 GBP (1,618 USD) - barely enough to cover the monthly bills and food.
Prince, who has worked a range of jobs for the last 15 years, says this has been the hardest period so far.
"This is probably been the hardest. In the time I've worked, I've had time off. I've been made redundant before but always within a few weeks, I found a new job. but now i find it very difficult to find a job," said Prince.
Prince is one of a record number of unemployed Britons.
In February, the unemployment figure hit the two million mark, taking the jobless rate up to 6.5 percent -- the highest since 1997 and analysts warn things will only get worse.
For thirty-year-old Ruben Jimenez, the timing could not have been worse.
Leaving his homeland, Spain, armed with a degree in agriculture, Jimenez came to Oxford to improve his English - a must, he says, in this era of globalization.
Braced to do low-entry level jobs, Jimenez was shocked to have to compete with locals in applying for jobs like cleaning in one of Oxford's universities and colleges, bartending or working in pizza chains and restaurants.
"For every job that I see in Job Centre Plus, there are 30, 40 persons or more. I think maybe the colleges here they choose people that have experience or is from England because they speak perfect English," said Jimenez.
To help him with his English, Jimenez is shelling out 7.50 GBP (11 USD) for lessons at a language school run by twenty-five-year-old Poppy Shirlaw.
Unlike many small businesses in the UK that have been hit by the recession, Shirlaw's Kheiron School of English is actually thriving as more and more foreigners enrol to improve their English.
"We're here to help people get their skills better, get their spoken English much better, so get them skills like talking on the telephone, and how to write e-mails so they can be a bit more empowered to get more interesting jobs," said Shirlaw who plans on setting up similar schools in others areas of Britain which have a high concentration of unemployed immigrants.
The British government recently announced curbs on foreign workers outside the European Union to increase the chances of British jobseekers at this time of rising unemployment.
Although these curbs do not affect those who come from EU member countries like Spain, Jimenez says they, too, might as well stay home, for now.
"Right now, it's very difficult. My advice is that if you come, do it when you have a job waiting for you because if not, the situation can be very difficult," said Jimenez who relies on his Lithuanian girlfriend doing clerical work at a tour bus company to keep them afloat.
Anxiety over the future is also felt in Oxford's campuses.
At Oxford Brookes University, home to 19,000 undergraduate and post-graduate students, even top graduates like Antoinette Kyuchukova are not immediately guaranteed a job after they graduate.
It took her six months, a lot of determination and focus, to finally land a consultancy job at Pricewaterhouse Coopers in London.
"There are hundreds of other people doing the same thing and if you don't find a way to stand out and put the effort in, it's difficult, and it's frustrating. The amount of negative answers for my applications, I didn't go for my first job and I got it. I had a lot of rejections and it feels bad," said Kyuchukova whose first several paychecks will have to go straight to paying off student loans.
Analysts say the labour market is only going to get weaker as credit-starved companies up and down the land lay off workers as they struggle to stay afloat in the worst global downturn in decades.
Leaders of world's 20 developed and developing countries vow to seek global action to end the crisis when they meet in London on April 1 and 2.
But for the thousands of unemployed in Britain, daily visits to the local job centre are the only sources of hope these days.
On this visit to the centre, Prince comes out with the promise of two jobs - cleaner and security guard.
"Both jobs are 7.50 GBP (11 USD). It's not a great deal of money, but it's better than nothing at the moment," said Prince who still needs to go through the application process before he can even be considered as a candidate.
Six months ago, Britain's economy had only just started to shrink, before the contraction accelerated to the sharpest drop in output in nearly 30 years in the three months to December.
The economy is expected to shrink by a similar amount of around 1.5 percent in the first quarter of this year and keep contracting for some time to come.
Analysts fear one in 10 Britons could be out of work by the end of this year.