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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
new york is way cheaper than london.
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Thank you. People argue with me about this all the time. Even if you paid the same in rent (which is unlikely unless you were in a more central part of Manhattan) the sheer difference in cost of living makes London FAR more expensive than New York.
A room, not a flat, a ROOM in London will put you back easily £500/$800-1000 - and we're talking the most basic room, in the least desirable area.
Weekly travel if you're working will be around £30/$50.
Food is roughly double the price here that it is in the US.
And it just goes on and on.
Unless you're on social benefit, I don't see how anyone could possibly live in London on anything less than around £800-1000/$1800 a month. and that would mean living so basically you could hardly afford to go to a pub once a week.
For that you'd be lucky to have somewhere looking like this:
and you'd probably be eating a lot of this towards the final third of each month:
