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Well forget ever buying in London, my rent alone in central London is £2656 ($3800) a month. This flat would be more than £565,000 to buy. How anyone saves for
by matthewcford 11y ago
Well forget ever buying in London, my rent alone in central London is £2656 ($3800) a month. This flat would be more than £565,000 to buy.
How anyone saves for a deposit, while paying rent - without help from their parents is beyond me.
- stuxnet79 11y agoWTF!!? & here I thought Toronto was bad. I'm assuming rents don't get any higher than this right? You must earn a lot although I'm certain the rent erodes a significant amount of your take home, after tax pay.
- robk 11y agoThat's like 50th percentile for central London for a 2 bed flat.
- twic 11y agoBut central, rather than inner. Of course it's eyewateringly expensive to live in central London. The way London works is that people live in the bits outside the centre, and commute in for work and leisure. People who live in the centre are a bit of an anomaly.
- martinald 11y agoNot expensive at all. Decent standard one beds in an ok area in zone 3 can cost £1500/month easily (about 10km from the centre of London).
- keville 11y ago> How anyone saves for a deposit, while paying rent [...] is beyond me. I couldn't agree with this sentiment of confusion more -- especially living in San Francisco, even with a reasonably healthy wage.
- contingencies 11y agoMy answer to London was to find a cheap, multi-bedroom flat and sublet the rest. After that I wound up paying about £300/week, or under half what you pay. 2009 Whitechapel, near Brick Lane.