We moved from Toronto to Barcelona in 2019. When I visited Toronto this summer, I was shocked at the prices! It’s crazy how much it’s gone up. Spain is significantly cheaper than London, and for sure it’s much cheaper for us to live here.

that asmr crunchy noise - yum!

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this was so much fun keep it up gorg

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I love ❤️ cooking TV 📺 shows here it helps out on the best foods to make either rice, Noodles, & others too! Happy Sunday, Monica & I love watching your video vlogs.

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I think clearly the rent difference is the kicker. All the other cost-of-living stuff is manageable to live with in London, apart from the exorbitant rent ... The rent situation is a demand and supply issue due to population growth, and recent UK population growth has been fueled by immigration, but immigration will slow down now because of the new salary rules requiring people to earn at least £38k to get a work visa. People in the UK can no longer afford to have more than 1 child, so the UK birth rate has also declined.

I would say prices have rose exponentially since Covid. £5 for a small cup of coffee is UNBELIEVABLE 😮. I have noticed that there are less and less offers around & cheaper options. There used to be cheaper options like a bottle of house wine 🍷 or a cheap pizza 🍕 etc. I can’t believe a meal on average cost £25 for a main course and the food in the UK is ridiculously mediocre. London has gone totally bonkers / stupid since lockdown/ Covid. It never was this crazy. Everyone is taking advantage of young people like yourselves. It is truly disgusting and they should be ashamed.

I used to live in Toronto back in 2011 when it was affordable and I remember the salary was higher. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with Medicare VS NHS ... i dunno maybe Medicare is more expensive to run🤔

I know you mentioned salary briefly at the end, but it is critical to include. Ex moving to a cheaper or more expensive place is only in comparison to how much you're being paid. A place can be super cheap or expensive if you aren't being paid the local rate.

confirms what I thought; that I eat more veg and fruit in london vs toronto 100%!!! so expensive for food these days

It's very surprising that London UK is more expensive than here in Canada. 😯 I wonder Monica if you can make a video about dating in Canada vs the UK. 👌

Quick question on regards to the price of food. produce and meat can be really expensive in canada, but with weekly deals and flyers, there are usually items in all of the main food categories, like some veg, fruit, meat, that go on a pretty heavy discount. I do most of my shopping with the flyers and often reduce my bill by at least 50%. Is it the same in London for flyers and discounts?

I'm always baffled watching these at the amount of people who eat out once a week or even more than once a week . My UK background was you only ate out for special events and birthdays etc.. I really do not know where people are getting the money from for takeaways and dinners out.

stop making me HUNGRY!!! :)

This was such an interesting video! One of my close friends lives in Toronto and I was shocked at how nice of a place you could get where the same rent would get you something tiny in London. And definitely notice a huge difference between Toronto and London salaries - I assume it's to be able to compete with US salaries which are also super high!

How about health care insurance and visit to doctors? How about other insurance like renter insurance or others? How about travel cost?

Hi Monica, I'm from Colombia, and I was completely surprised to find that groceries were cheaper in London vs Medellín (Colombia).

This was so interesting!! Thank you for making this video ❤

Essentials such as milk, eggs, etc. are not taxed at the grocery store in Canada

Great video, I can see you put a lot of effort into it. Personally when I was working in London the salary was much higher than that of Toronto, but that was pre-covid and pre-Brexit, maybe things have changed since then.

I live in another city in the uk and the prices here are so much cheaper than London. It might as well be a separate country. You need to get out of there asap for your wallets sake

As someone who is moving to London next year for school, this was very very helpful! Thank you very much:D I assume the reason why salary in Canada is generally better than London is likely due to the existence of another competitive appealing job market nearby. Since the US offers better salary in many industries, so if Canadian companies dont pay well, they cannot attract good candidates. On the other hand, the UK is the most attractive job market for English speakers in Europe and it doesn’t have a big competitor nearby except Ireland. I don’t know perhaps it’s just my assumption. Sorry if I’m wrong 😅

ha ha pepper prices in Canada, it's funny ;) I have lived in Canada over 8 yers now, and never understood why vegetables are so crazy expensive here, especially peppers. Why peppers are so unique? Food cartels in Canada remind me of drug cartels in Mexico..

Such a fun vlog Monica!!! 🇨🇳

Went to Ealing Broadway recently. I've never seen anything like that for 15 years me living in London. Every 3rd, 4th shop closed down and empty. Ealing was always busy with shoppers, consumers, customers, people having fun but it seems it's gone now. Crazy 😱 and sad 😔 But let's stay hopeful the situation will improve SOON.

content for sure, but can we all appreciate the graphics and production of this video 😮‍💨🙏🏻🙏🏻

We have a lot of competition here. I don’t know what the situation is in Canada.

Living here in London, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is so ridiculously expensive here over the years. Even Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 same situation too! Happy Sunday, Monica & Happy Remembrance Sunday! ❤️

omggg quality chophouse in farringdon u have to try it, the food is fab and heard they do a good roast as well x

hey lovely can you please share your changsha, chongqing and zhangjiajie itinerary? i'm heading in feb!

Loving these China vlogs! Thank you for sharing it with us!

Do you have a link to the Google maps you used? Very handy.

i am sorry but why does at 26"21? it says toronto??😂

As someone who is terrified of heights watching the cable car descending down the mountain made my nuts crawl back into my body.

Love the vlog 🇨🇳

Hi Monica! Which language do you speak with your family in Canada - English or Chinese?

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Beautiful China 🇨🇳 vlog Monica! The food and the views look so nice, but climbing up 900 steps is so bloody ridiculous 🙄 here! Thanks for sharing & Happy Sunday! ❤

zhangjiajie thoughhh 😍

Love the trench coat.

I visited London in Feb and had an amazing roast with friends at the Draper's Arms. It's in this really cute old georgian building and we were seated upstairs overlooking the street, definitely recommend.

The Camberwell Arms for Sunday roast is very good, although it's quite hard to get a seat if you don't reserve.

We love a new vlog 🤍

we tried the soup! thanks for the dinner idea 😋

we drew absolute masterpieces ;) ❤

Good afternoon, Monica. I love watching your London diaries vlogs here! Have a beautiful week! ❤

Looks very light for 5.50am, whereas next clip is 6.50am and is dark outside!

Hi Monica. Really comforting vlog. Thank you.☺ What were the ingredients in your best juice combo recipe?