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I'd actually like to get the data on this, because I don't see it. Housing in London is exorbitant not to mention commute times and travel costs in my experienc

by kinlan 9y ago

I'd actually like to get the data on this, because I don't see it. Housing in London is exorbitant not to mention commute times and travel costs in my experience outweigh the the difference in living costs you mention.

jaymzcampbell 9y ago
I highly recommend the metropolitan line. I'm living in a nice 1 bed in Harrow for £995 a month (not cheap but not a massive stretch for me). The fast met line in the morning can have me in Liverpool street within 45 minutes from leaving mine. As fond as I am of hating on London to my friends, I would be worse off moving out to take a job at half the salary and unless I could walk to work within 30 minutes, I think the london transport network is very hard to beat.
- stuaxo 9y ago
  I live in near London Bridge for just a bit more than double that, in a two bed, sharing with partner and daughter. The prices on the edges have gone up much faster than the middle, it's worth considering living centrally. On the outskirts I don't feel like you get the benefits of living in the city, I may as well live actually outside.
- switch007 9y ago
  Just to expand, to live and commute it's more like: £995 + £200 (council tax, utilities and Internet) + £216 (monthly travel card) = £1,411?
notahacker 9y ago
The data would strongly suggest he's an outlier (as are those fortunate enough to be employed in extremely lucrative jobs that don't exist outside of London, or where London-based firms have specialisms or connections which justify charging clients much higher fees than their regional counterparts) Major employers with fixed pay scales, for example, tend to pay a "London weighting" of £1-7k[1] which doesn't get close to covering housing cost differences and don't have trouble hiring for London positions. There might be more interesting work and work far more specialised to your skillset than that available in most cities outside of London, but there's also more competition for it from a workforce that doesn't mind renting rooms rather than buying houses and not even considering owning a car. [1] e.g. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2016/july/london-weighting.html http://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2016/july/london-wei...

by kinlan 9y ago

jaymzcampbell 9y ago

I highly recommend the metropolitan line. I'm living in a nice 1 bed in Harrow for £995 a month (not cheap but not a massive stretch for me). The fast met line in the morning can have me in Liverpool street within 45 minutes from leaving mine. As fond as I am of hating on London to my friends, I would be worse off moving out to take a job at half the salary and unless I could walk to work within 30 minutes, I think the london transport network is very hard to beat.

stuaxo 9y ago
I live in near London Bridge for just a bit more than double that, in a two bed, sharing with partner and daughter. The prices on the edges have gone up much faster than the middle, it's worth considering living centrally. On the outskirts I don't feel like you get the benefits of living in the city, I may as well live actually outside.
switch007 9y ago
Just to expand, to live and commute it's more like: £995 + £200 (council tax, utilities and Internet) + £216 (monthly travel card) = £1,411?

notahacker 9y ago

The data would strongly suggest he's an outlier (as are those fortunate enough to be employed in extremely lucrative jobs that don't exist outside of London, or where London-based firms have specialisms or connections which justify charging clients much higher fees than their regional counterparts) Major employers with fixed pay scales, for example, tend to pay a "London weighting" of £1-7k[1] which doesn't get close to covering housing cost differences and don't have trouble hiring for London positions. There might be more interesting work and work far more specialised to your skillset than that available in most cities outside of London, but there's also more competition for it from a workforce that doesn't mind renting rooms rather than buying houses and not even considering owning a car. [1] e.g. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2016/july/london-weighting.html http://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2016/july/london-wei...