Cost of Living in London

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Turkey's president Erdogan is notorious for causing hyperinflation in Turkey now so Erdogan must be very dishonest and should be untrustworthy all all.

How could the world trust the hyperinflation-criminal Erdogan with the great responsibility of distribution of Ukraine grain worldwide fairly at a time like now while the world is desperately attempting to control and annihilate inflation through fair distribution of Ukraine grain?

Are we tasking the hyperinflation-criminal Erdogan to hyperinflate the price of Ukraine grain through his distribution? If so, the result would be worst than the current inflation.

People are suffering inflation badly now because of this inflation-terrorist Rishi Sunak.

Still this most shameless inflation-terrorist Rishi Sunak dares to enter the PM race now in order to further skyrocket the current out of control inflation which he himself created before.

If there were a bit of justice, this inflation-terrorist Rishi Sunak should be locked in jail immediately in order to return justice to all victims of the current out of control inflation in Great Britain.

Only people with British ancestor should be used for high positions in the government for the interest of the people from now on because only British people would take care of the interest of the British people not the other way around.

To annihilate inflation , the interest rate must be immediately raised above the current inflation rate and minimum wage and energy price must be reduced in half.

Why is China’s inflation rate low (inflation 0% from April) compared to the US, Europe and Britain (where inflation is out of control now, thanks to the unethical thieves colluding among FED, Central Bank of European Union and BOE under the leadership of the greatest thief Jerome Powell ?
https://www.scmp.com/economy/economic-indicators/article/3181940/why-chinas-inflation-rate-low-compared-us-europe-and

For DEEPAK: Expect total taxes, national health, other mandatory deductions to take about 60% of gross, so your net income will run a little over 3000/month. Rent & utilities will take at least 50-60% of that, IF you can find a relatively inexpensive apartment. Housing in outlying areas can be cheaper, but expect transportation costs to eat much of your savings in addition to being very time-consuming. Inflation rates are 9% and rising rapidly, especially for energy, heat. Friend's power bill just rose to over 1000/month. You also need to plan on needing an expensive wardrobe for cold, rainy weather, but if you buy high quality items, they could last you a while. Expect to spend several thousand pounds on arrival for appropriate clothing, shoes, raincoat with wool liner, etc.

The queen is so irresponsible for skyrocketing inflation, 9% inflation, the highest inflation in the western world while collecting the highest tax in the world including the additional burdensome counsel tax.

The real culprits for skyrocketing inflation are indeed the American Boris Johnson and the Indian Rishi Sunak but since these culprits are still working irresponsibly for the queen so consequently the queen may not be able to reject her responsibility anymore.

The best course of actions are to fire these 2 culprits immediately and deport them to their respective ancestor country as the least punishment they deserve and then immediately increase the interest rate by 20% to eliminate inflation ounce and for all or else playing with fire like the foolish FED from US with insignificant increment of interest rate for many times like a moron by FED chief Jerome Powell would instead backfire and further increase inflation out of control as it's happening in US now.

Only people with British ancestor should be used for high positions in the government for the interest of the people from now on because only British people would take care of the interest of the British people not the other way around.

People are paying tax so the queen should be at least responsible to eliminate inflation at all cost for the sake of her benefactors, the taxpayer.

Hi! i am planning to take a role in UK for an MNC firm, the annual package offered is 100K pounds. I will be moving alone in the beginning, so wanted to check if this package is good and how much taxes are there. I want to target 40% as savings too.

It really is becoming hard to survive in London these days. In two weeks time the TFL prices are going up. In April the cost of gas and electricity is going up by eye watering 54%, water, council tax, broadband, national insurance contributions are also going up. Food has become more expensive too. House prices are ma.
It is crazy

For the sake of independence and survival, Europe and United Kingdom must immediately ban gas throughout Europe and United Kingdom and the gas must be immediately replaced with other cheaper alternatives coming from such as hydropower plant, Nuclear energy, wood, coal, etc which can be independently produced in Europe and United Kingdom without requiring dependence from untrustworthy source.

It's time to build Nuclear power plant as much as necessary in order to provide sufficient power for Europe and United Kingdom as well as to provide the free city transportation including bus and train powered by electricity in order to discourage the public from using the oil fueled cars as the first step to permanently remove oil dependence from Russia and Russia's manipulated OPEC.

Russia is the common enemy of the whole world for skyrocketing the price of all natural resources inhumanely even during this pandemic period.

The parasite Russia simply survives by selling its natural resource to the international markets but the problem is that this parasite Russia is extremely greedy now and even dares to attack the whole world shamelessly by skyrocketing the price of its natural resource relentlessly now.

Germany is also to be blamed for helping Russia with a gas pipeline to hack into Europe so the Russia's gas pipeline should be suspended immediately until the normal price of gas is restored and everyone has to work together for this common interest even if needed for sacrifice because it's a worthy cause or else Europe might not be able to escape from the trap of Russia forever and this is not acceptable and shouldn't happen in Europe.

If Russia were imposed sanction earlier, the problem of resources being skyrocketed wouldn't happen right now.

So the world should remember to stay away from the parasite Russia as well as from Russia's manipulated OPEC to be safe so all natural resources from the parasite Russia should be banned immediately in order to restore the normal price of the natural resources and if needed, the parasite Russia must be imposed sanctioned once and for all through the support of worldwide cooperation.

Nation destroyer Biden who has proved his trustworthiness by completely destroying the Afghanistan earlier has earned 2 more naive preys now to be able to slaughter soon and they are UK and Australia.

It should be a good show for the whole world to watch again after the recent Afghanistan destruction where Biden's next destruction heads this time either US directly or the other 2 unfortunate preys.

UK is much more smarter than the cunning fox Biden so shouldn't follow Biden's footsteps for self destruction and instead prepare to take over the superpower status from the US by showing the world that UK can be the hope of the world where there is no inflation and the money is trustworthy as much as gold unlike the US where Biden has been mercilessly robbing people's money through inflation tax corruptly even under the current pandemic period unlike never seen before throughout history so that the whole world shall dump all US dollar consequently very soon until US is completely ruined financially and then purchase UK pound to substitute the US dollar if the UK pound were trustworthy. The biggest opportunity in a lifetime is coming soon and the winner takes all.

As for US, there is no remedy as long as being manipulated by the communist tyrant Biden and consequently US is going to be destroyed by the freeloader Biden eventually just like what he did with the Afghanistan destruction irresponsibly.

Among the kingdoms, Japan imperial system, etc have done a good job to their own people by preventing inflation across their countries until recently so there is no inflation in Japan, etc unlike other corrupt countries led by the current untrustworthy US thief.

So it's very important to strictly deploy only our own race to monitor especially our most important central bank for the benefit of our own people just like Japan or else deploying other races such as middle eastern, Indian, Chinese, etc in our own central bank is like allowing probable terrorists and thieves to condemn our own beloved people which shouldn't happen for the greatest kingdom on earth.

London is so expensive and people there are living in poverty even though they earn a typical amount of 2000 pounds a month, London is awful, homeless people everywhere because the Gov is corrupt.

Best to move out and then pretend to be disabled, so you can earn money without ever having to work again.

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China and Russia still deliberately support the genocide criminal Myanmar again during the recent UN assembly.

China communist party is the most inhumane organizations, not considering the suffering of the genocide victims of Rohingya though China itself suffered the most terrible atrocities as great as genocide under Japan empire during WW2.

Though India's relationship with Myanmar is much better than China's relationship with Myanmar, India abstained from voting at the Myanmar case against genocide crime in UN assembly recently, at least India didn't support the genocide criminal Myanmar.
India have a sense of humane dignity unlike inhumane China which deliberately supporting Myanmar for its genocide crime in the name of not interfering in its internal affairs.

Whatever China's supporting is non of the business of the world community as long as China is not the head of UN but the problem is that China is the head of UN so the world community is stuck with the untrustworthy China and no whatsoever justice and humane dignity would be rendered by the very inhumane China and Russia.

So without justice and humane dignity being place at the top agenda of China and Russia in its handling of UN matters, both should be kicked out of UN immediately by the world community or else UN is no longer relevant to the world community.

I'm happy the UK finally came to their senses and adopted Brexit,especially since the euro was a failure from the beginning, long live the queen.

Can get information about near by places in London (1/2 hour journey ) where house rent can be low, and average cost of living for 2 adults & 2 kids.
Thanks

Iam planning to come in DEC 2020 with my family, wife & 2 kids 10 yrs old, Iam looking for shared accomodation. Pls mail me with details . My mail bhanuck2@gmail.com. Preferably in central london.

Depends on your job.
If you’re experienced in IT or Finance you should target a 6 figures salary

Hello, I would like to know what it the best salary to live a good life in London. I got a job offer of 50k pound a year is it enough? and how much would they take tax from it?

And what are the expenses in details, if someone could help me. thank you in advance.

Transportation fees are wrong, monthly pass costs way over £150 if you aren’t in zones 1-2
Should include majority of London which is zones 1-6

I looked at a lot of apartments and the prices are very different from different parameters. How did you get the average price like this, I do not understand (I looked at the prices here: https://1newhomes.com

I wanna know price of an apartment with specifications that GOlnaz has wrote here. Thanks very much

Benny :
Gross income £7,416.67
Personal allowance £1,041.67
Taxable income £6,375.00
Income tax £1,925.00
National insurance £478.68
Pension (2%) £148.33
Net income per month: £4,864.65

1, get a new girlfriend, travelling back to Turkey (the country, not the bird , if any Americans reading this) might not be a good idea on a long term
2, to much noise in that area, there are nice places in zone 2 , quiet and cheap. You can walk from there to work as well.
3, going out 4 times / month..clashes with no 1 ..or adds up. Your "going out" will also include the 300 £ for travel.

I need advice. In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die! Yakuza very mad. I hide in lorries, come to England. No english, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I make 8£ per hour. How do I live in London? PS. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!

True the pound is becoming less valuable especially for retiring elsewhere when the USD,is used predominantly in many countries.

Gym - no frills about £20 per month, no spa, pool or sauna but equipment and classes.

Transport. One-way bus ticket is £1:50.

Transport all depends on zones.

I am in the final round of discussions for an opportunity with a London consulting firm. We are a family of four (two young kids) and live in the Middle East (with its perks like no income tax, cheap fuel, shorter commute, household help etc.). London is an exciting place for both our careers and could open up bigger opportunities. So I am inclined to look favourably at this. I expect that the offer to be about GBP 70-80K which is not great but at the same time not bad for a start. And hopefully my spouse will land up something decent as well, pushing our household income beyond GBP 100K. One of my friends advised against taking up anything south of GBP 80K. Any views on what the lowest package I can agree to?

@Anonymous on Apr 25, FYI site info, as it is right now, is more reliable than government info. Can be improved. Maybe that geezer trolling us with "Queen owns the Planet" fu.ked up the info :))))

@Max Willow, 3 million will be more than sufficient to get a 2 bedroom apartment in Canary Wharf area. Usually a 2 bedroom apartment in a decent development costs around 800-900k USD.

To Anonymous comment on April 1 2019 okay the queen doesn't elect parliament a good thing.I'd just like to see British citizens treated fairly.The queen owns all of the land in 6 countries so the queen gets royalties from all businesses and she owns the diamond mines in Africa amoung the minerals.Hopefully the queen doesn't own the land in Britain too.

I am interested in 1) buying a 3 bedroom flat in a nicer part of the East London, close to the Olympic Park where West Han plays,and/or@) how much would it cost ($US dollars) to buy a 2 bedroom apartment in or around Canary Warf. How far would 3 million US go in London?
Thank you,
Best wishes,
Dr Max Willow
Paddington NSW 2021
Australia

For people coming from 3rd world Indian subcontinent, London is heaven. So make sure you talk to the right people because perceptions can be different. If you live in a slum, every other place will seem like heaven. For most of us London is a battle between keeping up with bills and trying to make ends meet. Housing is unaffordable and crime is skyrocketing.

Well many ppl talking about how good London because they get 4-5k net monthly. Well of course lifestyle everywhere good with that kind of money but ppl in London roughly 50% earn under 2k net. For them much more difficult to live a good life in London.I lived in Croydon for 3 years worked as a welder for 1500 pounds monthly rent single room, share flat with 6-8 others spent for food like 100-150 pounds room rent 400-500, oyster mounhtly 50-60 pounds. So yes if u live like this (slave style) u can save money even from 1500 i saved monthly 1k but this life was really bad. I lose 10-15 kg after 3 years. Then I moved to Switzerland here the welder salary after tax like 6-8k CHF what is like 5-6k pounds as a welder!!! So i jsut wanna say London isnt as good as many people say. At least for people who get under 3k net pounds monthly. So in my opinion (my experiences) Switzerland 10x better than ENgland/London. In switzerland apartment rent is similar as in London. Food bit moore expensieve like 50%+, health care like 300 pounds monthly(mandatory) but at the end of the month here as a welder i can easily save 4k-5k pounds compare with London 1k.

@Laz basically western part of London is better than eastern. Probably the best locations (and most expensive of course) suitable for life are close to the Hyde park or river which means - Kensington, Paddington, Chelsea etc. In any case I strongly recommend you to find apartment close to your work - ideally to be able to get there without car or public transport.

Hello, I am being offered £46k gross package for work in London. Calculated my net take home salary will be around 2800 or 2850/month approximately.
Need some suggestions for managing my money.

Hi Sashank, sure, happy to help you.
As I said, I’m paying £850 for the rent in a shared house: it’s an ensuite room, which means I have my own bathroom in my bedroom.
Usually in shared houses all the bills are included (water, electricity, internet, council tax) so you just have to pay for the rent.
Tv licence is usually excluded. Also to note, it’s true that the bills are included, but usually in the contract with your landlord it’s specified a fair threshold of usage, which means that if you spend really a lot, the landlord can ask you to pay for the excess (eg. for me the threshold was around £60/70 per month, which means in a house of 4ppl = £300, you will never get even close to that, so don’t worry about this).
My house is in zone 2 (finsbury park, chek on google maps), so quite central: it takes me 30/40 min to go to work in zone 1(shoreditch) with the bus, but this really depends on where you find your place/where you work. It can be faster (and a bit more expensive) with the underground.
As a general rule I think it’s not worth searching for a place further outside the town to get it cheaper, but to have to spend more on the commute (both money and time): this is true especially if you don’t have a family, so you are more flexible. With a family it can be slightly different though, so it depends on you.
The room is a good size for me:big closet, double bed, a decent desk. The bathroom is ok for me, sink/toilet/shower, I don’t need more than that :)

If you are searching for a room in a shared house (which I suggest you if you are moving to London/Uk for the first time, as you will get to know more ppl which can help you), you can easily find something decent starting from £650/700, especially now that schools already started for the new year, and so the demand for houses has gone down a bit (after the summer is the highest peak of requests, so rents can increase a bit, that’s when I found my room at that price).
For a house on your own instead you would probably spend at least £1300/1500 per month, maybe more.In this case it may be worth going a bit out of the really central places, depending on the quality of the house you are searching.

I’m quite good at managing my money, and I do not waste them, but even with quite some more expenses I could be easily stay above £2k savings per month.

Just ask if you need something else :)

@kumal

I strongly disagree with what you say.
£78k net per year means £6.5k per month, which is a LOOOOT for a single person!

Considering a 1bedroom flat of 50sqm @ £1.
5-2k per month, you are left with still more than £4k.
Even eating in restaurants every day at lunch and dinner, you would spend no more than £1.
5k.

And if you go out and get drunk each night od the week in clubs, you would spend around 100£ per night for 10gin tonics!!

Only then, doing this kind of life every single day of the month you would be able to spend all your salary.

But you would also do NOT need the flat, as you would eat and live all the time outside!

Also, an adsl doesn't cost 50£ per month, plans start at 20£.

The same for mobile plans, starting at 10£ with really good offers (I'm paying 7£ actually, and it's more than enough with unlimited calls and enough data).

From what you said you are either never been in London, or simply accepting the first offer you are proposed without really looking and getting some real info from other retailers/agencies/markets/etc.. Or you are basically blind.

A single person can easily live with a lot less than that.

My salary is £4300 net per month.
I spend £850 (all bills included) in a nice ensuite room in zone 2, residential area (Finsbury park), with nice people in a shared flat (4 in total, me + 3 other).
I spend less than £50 per month to go to work (Shoreditch, zone 1) with bus - I'm lucky in this case, but in the worst case you could spend up to 100/150£.
For lunch I sometimes bring food from home, sometimes go out (£5 to £15 per lunch).
I spend £7 for mobile plan (unlimited calls/messages, 3GB data).
I don't smoke.
Once a month I go to the cinema.
Twice a week go out with friends in pubs, drinking like average people.
I spend probably £150/200 per month on food (asda, tesco).

I buy normal food, go out to restaurants sometimes and more frequently to pubs, and at the end of the month I easily save at least £3k.

Even going out more often and with more expensive lifestyles (expensive gym, lot of cinemas, lot of expensive shopping, travelling to another country once a month, etc), I would hardly go below £2k savings per month, which would still be ok.

Question to Numbeo owner: what is the definition of City Centre and Outside City Centre? Any list available for each country? Thanks!