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London salary compared to elsewhere

If you want to do it then you'll do it. I moved down with nothing at all. well, had £30 left out me overdraft. It happened cos opportuinty came up to move into a house with deposit and 2 months rent paid so i just did it... and got a job on me second day here. then a second job after a few weeks. I'm struggling now, and stuff is tight as my rent is really high, but if you save up a little money to pay a deposit and first months rent and living costs then you should be fine. Throw yersen into it. but with a short contract on the flat just incase you need to move out to somewhere cheaper :D
 
Travel i can help with.London ticket prices are here http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/faresandtickets/seasontickets/4805.aspx

Forget zones 8 and 9, they aren't London by any stretch, and 5 and 6 are far out. So you are talking a grand to 1500 a year. Not cheap but that does cover everthing, 24/7 and you won't need a car. So it might not be as scary as you think.

Cheaper options are obviously bike or bus. Bus is 552 a year, just over a tenner a week. Semi-affordable places within walking distance of the city are rare, but they do exist
 
Oswaldtwistle said:
Travel i can help with.London ticket prices are here http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/faresandtickets/seasontickets/4805.aspx

Forget zones 8 and 9, they aren't London by any stretch, and 5 and 6 are far out. So you are talking a grand to 1500 a year. Not cheap but that does cover everthing, 24/7 and you won't need a car. So it might not be as scary as you think.

Cheaper options are obviously bike or bus. Bus is 552 a year, just over a tenner a week. Semi-affordable places within walking distance of the city are rare, but they do exist
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There's a Zone 8 and 9? It only went to 6 in my day - the border was Coulsden South IIRC on the way to Redhill( I had a 6 zone pass which was fab). I started on 13.5k and I was loaded, but that was in 1992. :D
 
Chairman Meow said:
There's a Zone 8 and 9? It only went to 6 in my day - the border was Coulsden South IIRC on the way to Redhill( I had a 6 zone pass which was fab). I started on 13.5k and I was loaded, but that was in 1992. :D
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A, B, C and D have been renamed. I think it's only the NW end of the Met line that go to those zones
 
Well, you could always buy to let in Bristol I suppose.

More seriously I don't think anyone buys in London unless they're on serious money, are socially reclusive or backed by their parents.
 
tarannau said:
More seriously I don't think anyone buys in London unless they're on serious money, are socially reclusive or backed by their parents.
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^
this

And the only people I know who have bought over the past 4 years have been those with a deposit paid by parents. And the majority of those have had partners to share the cost of the mortgage. That's keeping in mind that I graduated with lots of people that went into banking and other highly-paid professions.
 
So people in London can't afford houses, have to pay extortionate amounts in rent and travel miles to get to work.

What's so great about that?
 
zenie said:
I lived on 10k and did ok in London, lived in a cheap room! Spare a thought for those on minimum wage in the capital! :(

You'll get London Weighting for some posts Electrogirl, without telling us what kinds job you want we can't really tell you the London salary IYKWIM :)
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I was wondering how anyone managed on the minimum wage without some support from somewhere else tbh. I think it should be set higher for London.

I know money prevented me from studying in London (would have been on about 1600 quid for about 3/4 of the year- I know it was early nineties but even then I thought 'no')
 
Geri said:
So people in London can't afford houses, have to pay extortionate amounts in rent and travel miles to get to work.

What's so great about that?
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Who said it was great?

Personally I'd erect a big fence and keep the yokel bumpkins and fairweather immigrants. Local jobs for local people.
;)

But London's got more of everything, for better or worse. Including more job possibilities and decent evening options than anywhere else in Blighty.

PS: it only takes me 10-15 minutes on the tube to the centre of town.
 
tarannau said:
I think EG's going to work as a dustbin lady. Free meals that way
;)
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:mad:

Do you live in London? You're first on the hitlist when I arrive.

Thanks for everyone's advice! I'm wondering whether I should get a job in Bristol first, save a bit of money, and then move. I'm basically looking at any jobs which sound appealing in the 18,000 bracket at the moment, basically I still have no idea what specific career I want, but hope that I fall into something..

That's probably the sensible thing to do, BUT, I want to be nearer my family so much, and my friends are in London, and I just want to be there. I'm super impatient.

And now, also, I really want to beat up Tarannau.

Thing is, I'm really not good at living within my means.:o
 
Geri said:
So people in London can't afford houses, have to pay extortionate amounts in rent and travel miles to get to work.

What's so great about that?
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Ah, an agenda. Haven't seen one of those in a while.

There are pros and cons of living in London, just as there are pros and cons of living in the sticks.
 
electrogirl said:
:mad:

Do you live in London? You're first on the hitlist when I arrive.
...
And now, also, I really want to beat up Tarannau.

Thing is, I'm really not good at living within my means.:o
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Course I do. Born and bred Sarf London, with the dragging knuckles to prove it. You can come and try, but eat well before you come - my estate has some giant bin stores that may distract you

Nowhere finer in the land for me mind. But pause carefully, London can be ruinously expensive if you let it be - it takes more dedication to live cheaply when there's new temptations to sample.
 
TBH, I think that the whole "London's just soooooo much more expensive than everywhere else" thing is overstated.

I chose Newcastle because I thought it would be dead cheap, and to be honest, the only thing which is different, is the rent - I pay 530 for a two bed flat. That said, even that wouldn't necessarily be that much worse if you're prepared to live a bit further out in London; my mate was paying 700 quid per month for a slightly better place, albeit in Chingford (which is a pretty dire place to have to live).

Other things are no more expensive in London, and often cheaper, especially things like takeaways, eating out etc (I'm talking about local area things, not central london which everyone knows is a ripoff, and no real londoners go there). Transport is much cheaper in London too. I never realised how necessary a car was until I lived somewhere other than London (with a kid)
 
RenegadeDog said:
TBH, I think that the whole "London's just soooooo much more expensive than everywhere else" thing is overstated.

I chose Newcastle because I thought it would be dead cheap, and to be honest, the only thing which is different, is the rent - I pay 530 for a two bed flat. That said, even that wouldn't necessarily be that much worse if you're prepared to live a bit further out in London; my mate was paying 700 quid per month for a slightly better place, albeit in Chingford (which is a pretty dire place to have to live).

Other things are no more expensive in London, and often cheaper, especially things like takeaways, eating out etc (I'm talking about local area things, not central london which everyone knows is a ripoff, and no real londoners go there). Transport is much cheaper in London too. I never realised how necessary a car was until I lived somewhere other than London (with a kid)
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I don't know about takeaways, well, maybe not *good* ones anyway. Even way out of central London they're much pricier than Leeds/ Bradford ones.

They're also pricier in Oxford as well, maybe it's a general Southern thing -- or Oxford is just pricy.
 
RenegadeDog said:
That said, even that wouldn't necessarily be that much worse if you're prepared to live a bit further out in London; my mate was paying 700 quid per month for a slightly better place, albeit in Chingford (which is a pretty dire place to have to live).

Other things are no more expensive in London, and often cheaper, especially things like takeaways, eating out etc (I'm talking about local area things, not central london which everyone knows is a ripoff, and no real londoners go there).
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But surely it negates the whole point of living in London if you live in one of the crap parts and never go into central London?
 
That said, I do subscribe to the 'you'll spend more because there's more to do' school of thought purveyed in page 1 - and I think this is the real killer in London. Rent will be more, other living costs won't, but there's just so much more of everything - clubs, gigs, films, etc - that you'll spend more by default.
 
_angel_ said:
I don't know about takeaways, well, maybe not *good* ones anyway. Even way out of central London they're much pricier than Leeds/ Bradford ones.

They're also pricier in Oxford as well, maybe it's a general Southern thing -- or Oxford is just pricy.
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I dunno, up here in Newcastle I pay about 7 quid for a chicken madras with keema pilau. I'm pretty sure that in most London takeaways it certainly wouldn't be more than that.
 
_angel_ said:
I don't know about takeaways, well, maybe not *good* ones anyway. Even way out of central London they're much pricier than Leeds/ Bradford ones.

They're also pricier in Oxford as well, maybe it's a general Southern thing -- or Oxford is just pricy.
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That said, Bradford curries are astoundingly cheap.
 
Orang Utan said:
My definition of a rich person these days is someone who can afford to buy a house.
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I agree (if you mean buy these days, as oposed to already owning a house). No way could I afford a house now, even though I earn £10,000 more than I did when I bought this one.
 
electrogirl said:
:mad:

Do you live in London? You're first on the hitlist when I arrive.

Thanks for everyone's advice! I'm wondering whether I should get a job in Bristol first, save a bit of money, and then move. I'm basically looking at any jobs which sound appealing in the 18,000 bracket at the moment, basically I still have no idea what specific career I want, but hope that I fall into something..

That's probably the sensible thing to do, BUT, I want to be nearer my family so much, and my friends are in London, and I just want to be there. I'm super impatient.

And now, also, I really want to beat up Tarannau.

Thing is, I'm really not good at living within my means.:o
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That is pretty much what I want to do, after going seeing all my friends the other day. I might have a place to live sorted, and am applying for jobs like mad this week. I would be relying on the goodwill of my Dad, and a few other people at first. But I need to do it. I know what I want to do in the long term and that is in London as well. I just really need to get there and get started, really.
 
RenegadeDog said:
I dunno, up here in Newcastle I pay about 7 quid for a chicken madras with keema pilau. I'm pretty sure that in most London takeaways it certainly wouldn't be more than that.
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I think Leeds/ Bradford is a bit cheaper than that. There's a LOT of takeaways around here.

I know the place we went to in Wembley was quite a lot pricier -- and that's not central London. It *was* nice though.
 
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