Depends on where you are. At home in Vienna and in our home in a small (population 460) next to the Czech border I always get close to 235V. At school in Vienna (roughly 5km from home, but has it's own 10kV to 220/380V) I never got more than 225 to ground and 382 between phases.
Different brands of bulbs had a widely varying life expectancy here. For some time we had cheap, IIRC Patria bulbs that would blow frequently, now we have Philips that last almost forever.
