Your former comment doesn't address my point. The "pay" as such is almost irrelevant. We're all competing with others in our local market for housing. Perhaps

Your former comment doesn't address my point. The "pay" as such is almost irrelevant. We're all competing with others in our local market for housing. Perhaps we could go on a massive building spree. The fact remains though, that a big old semi in London is in limited supply. A ton of people are still going to compete over it. If one ten hour job means I get to live in a flat share and a forty hour job means I get a semi-detached house, I'm going for the latter. Empirically so, since I work 40 hours as it is whilst not having to.