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I live in a fairly expensive city in the UK. Working minimum wage for 2 weeks will pay for a room in a flat share, plus my households food and required bills.
by maccard 9mo ago
I live in a fairly expensive city in the UK. Working minimum wage for 2 weeks will pay for a room in a flat share, plus my households food and required bills.
It’s not much of a life but the same still stands in many cities.
- ace32229 9mo agoThat's what, £1100 per month? How can you survive on that in an expensive city?
- maccard 9mo ago£1100/mo is about the minimum I could get by on in Edinburgh, yeah. It’s a room in a flat share with bills, £60/week on food, and £150/mo for “everything else”. It’s about as low as I think you could do. The person I replied to was talking about Nirvana in the 90s - when they were working part timeminimum wage jobs that’s roughly the life they’re living. If you go to Liverpool (which significantly punches for musical history), it’s actually manageable on 20hr/weeek minimum wage. You’re not talking sustaining a family or anything, but that life has been gone for 40 years at this point.