Yeah, the UK is generally much cheaper than the US (at least the bigger cities). I also live in a fairly cheap city, where rents are about 3/4 of the rents of t

Yeah, the UK is generally much cheaper than the US (at least the bigger cities). I also live in a fairly cheap city, where rents are about 3/4 of the rents of the next city along and probably half that of most of London. I actually just checked spareroom.co.uk and you can get a double in a shared house for a bit under £500 in my area. I only found one flat for rent (smaller than my house, but closer to the city) and that was £750. Prices in London are a lot higher. A few years ago, a double room outside central London was at least £700, and at least £1200 for inside Zone 1. > Savings from cancelling your Netflix will quickly be eaten up by any small increase in rent. These are changes caused by large-scale political decisions, not personal moral failings of vast numbers of consumers. To be clear, I'm not saying having a Netflix subscription is a personal moral failing. I'm just saying, not having it is an easy way to save £120 a year. Most people actually have a lot of discretionary spending, all of which seem small on their own, but when considered as a whole become a large chunk of expenditure.