My mistake, I just looked at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_Kingdom#Income_distribution_across_UK_regions_2007 http://en.wikipedia

My mistake, I just looked at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_Kingdom#Income_distribution_across_UK_regions_2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_Kingdom#In... It's 2007 and income distribution is probably per capita rather than average salary. In that case it's not as extreme as I've implied. EDIT: A newspaper article from last year claims the UK average is 26k, so London is probably significantly higher. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-average-salary-26500-figures-3002995 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-average-salary-26500...