If you're just doing a bit part-time to top up another income fair play. However, if you're considering taxi driving as the sole household income on which you want to fund a house purchase you're probably urinating into the wind. I know a good few immigrant drivers with mortgages but, in most cases, they have working wives/husbands/partners. I guess the economic upturn dictates that we need immigrants for low skills jobs like driving, cleaning, etc... Maybe we'd have more to whinge about if the economy was still in recession.