How can you afford to live in LONDON? - Money, Salaries & Rent

London is expensive - But what does expensive actually mean and how much can you earn? A video in which I speak numbers about rent prices, salaries and real expectations. Please don't forget this is my personal opinion only :)
Great article published by the Huffington Post on rent prices in London: huff.to/1LNuZs7
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[@MRVICTORSMITH-tj2gw]

SandyMakesSense ,its nice informational video and i like it

[@jip230]

I lived in London and I needed about 55,000 pounds each year to live and not suffer. I was shocked to find that most entry level jobs paid next to nothing and even with 15+ years of experience I could make about 35-40K. It just never added up - the crowds, the low wages, taking an hour or more to get anywhere on the tube, No. I came back to SF - which is even more expensive than London. The difference is that I can earn what I need to live well here in SF

[@JamesStonee]

you can tell this is a 2015 video. the prices for housing. the only way you would be able to get a room for that now is if you commute for an hour each way into work.

[@WilsonSilvaPT23]

I paid £240 a month for a single bedroom in Fallowfield, Manchester. With all bills include!!!

[@SandyMakesSense]

Omg that’s insane!!!

[@MrAllysonn]

That is the reason why I may want to go to Manchester or Liverpool for living in. How many people are living with you?

[@vanessaviola1648]

I’ve never seen less than £300 and hard being generous, usually like £400 the hell are you living??

[@joetejada8340]

Please share your secrets!

[@WilsonSilvaPT23]

@@joetejada8340 oh man. I wrote that comment 1 year ago. That was in 2015. I was living with 3 more people in a 4 bedroom house in Fallowfield. I paid £240 a month with everything included. Internet, council tax, bills all included. Believe it or not, its the truth. It was a very small room with a single bed, a desk and a small closet. It was so small i believe it was like 6 sq meters

[@tuan_shehan]

Living in London is my dream and I've always been worried about so many things regarding money and I thought it'll always be a dream, but thanks to you I gained some hope in moving there. Thanks a lot!

[@saadmasoodmasood3587]

Hehe

[@ninachannel8926]

Same hh I'm moving soon so I'm kinda nervous about the rents

[@KristinRyans]

This is how exactly we counted it with my boyfriend, we're gonna share the apartment which means 200 per person a month, and we found a job that was paying 20 000 per year and so that's great!

[@SandyMakesSense]

Awesome :) :)

[@ManuelaLanza]

thanks for your tips! London can be your best friend or worst enemy, it depends on your mindset :)

[@80skid83]

Husband Hunter can make or break you. it broke me , so moved out of town

[@JackAD]

lloyd t your mindset broke you

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[@sunpi]

I have a house in the country in the uk It's a 2 bedroom house with a big garden and garage for £800 a month including bills So that's really expensive for a little flat

[@SamuelleJennifer]

sunsbookishgamesx where did you find a house so cheap

[@raywangjierui2825]

pathetic. 20k pounds is less than my household income per month.

[@gregoryoyoko3406]

i want to do my degree in there how do i do which school do i join im doing international relations

[@fafa335]

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[@yesiamwinningdad5024]

@@gregoryoyoko3406 dude. Did you get that? Have you gone to London?

[@calvenjaybagnol8966]

I want to live in London too. But, I always remember about the expenses. thanks for this video!

[@manuelcheta]

These days if you are a programmer or website developer or a front end dev, then you can expect bigger salaries than the minimum even if you come from another country. A mid weight front end dev can easily request 40k/year in London if he/she knows how to request that amount.

[@j_thom]

$20,000 a year living in London is still a hard penny-pinching life. At $20,000 a year, do you truly "live" in London? Or is that 'hustle', scrimping, shaving, and minimalism that ones limited wage in such an expensive place the reality of "living" in London?

[@vanessaruiz4705]

I earn £1300/month and I save £300 every month for travelling. I am going to Kuala Lumpur in May and my wardrobe is full of clothes, handbags etc. I live very well. My expenses sum up to £850 and rest of money is for social life and saving.

[@zonzz]

Thanks for the tips! I'm planning to move to London for a while and share a flat with my mate, but she just told me the transportation costs - sooooo freakin' expensive! She has to pay £150 for every month + the ridiculous rent + the bills. Just woah.

[@willrichardson519]

Bike it?

[@tinylittlejiji4136]

Nothing comes without a cost so, If you really want to go to London, prepare yourself and don't fool around for too much. Work hard, save money and handle it for a while. Everything is going to be alright, you've got plenty of time to have fun! I'm from Portugal and we have rough times right now. My country is made for foreigners and not for us alone, so all i can do is believe and follow my dreams, working hard so i can achieve it. I want to go to London really badly, i'm in the process of applying to a University there and i have faith it might happen. I just have to work hard and be myself. Life is brief, yes, but it's not impossible for you to do everything you want to! Anyway thanks for the video! Wanted something with more numbers but yours helped as well in a good way! Keep up the good work!

[@jaycam2886]

A Lot of young people spent 70% of there wages on rent,Rents have got out of hand its crazy and at the same time train fairs go up along with everything else why your wages never go up the uk is in a right mess

[@SandyMakesSense]

+jay cam it is crazy haha - but wages do go up actually, just not as fast. However I don't mind spending a lot on rent and I live in the most exciting city in return :)

[@yocecil3538]

London is a place where everything is at least twice as difficult to do as it is everywhere else. The people are miserable too compared to the surrounding counties. Having said that I miss London but I can only go back, briefly, or I'd go mad.

[@Nomad314]

Screw that! I'm a qualified doctor and I only earn £22800 (before tax). I was thinking about working in London for a year or 2, or maybe to study again with some weekend work, but if I'm only going to be able to just survive it seems pointless. God knows how I would survive if I am studying again. I'll stay in Wales 😩 it rains a lot & is not exciting & busy like London, but at least I can afford to eat comfortably and go on holiday abroad 4 times a year 😍 thanks for this info (and shattering my dreams 😂)

[@SandyMakesSense]

+Nomad314 haha oh no I'm sorry 😅

[@SURENITY]

Hackney is an awesome area with A TON of culture, music, art, farmers markets, etc 6 miles away from Downtown, and is quite a great value.

[@Ianacek]

When I worked in central London in 1986 , my semi professional salary was 20,000 pounds gross. My rent for a large bedsit in Ilford, Essex was 150 pounds per month . I guess it would be 500 pounds today .Taxes are lower now , but it sounds like its just been diverted to paying a lot more rent today. London's always been considered expensive .

[@GK-rt2oz]

All prices in this video are way too low! I earn £25k and I live nowhere near London and can't rent a flat alone on this salary because a flat is at least £1000 per month😂 (I have a car to pay for too)

[@SandyMakesSense]

Maybe you have a bit more of an expensive lifestyle hey ;)

[@GK-rt2oz]

SandyMakesSense No, I really don't. I'm very basic and save as much money as possible and I'm 20 years old😊 I know you said this is your experience but it's definitely not the average for London so could be given as misconstrued information.

[@georgiosvergakis5666]

the London job market is saturated, unless you are a doctor or a qualified accountant, you will never find decent work and be able to make ends meet. it's nice to live in London, but as far as earning money through a job, it's the last place on earth, even people with good, reputable jobs are struggling to make ends meet.

[@2011littlejohn1]

Then why do they stay? Just because it's London?

[@georgiosvergakis5666]

it has very good night life, interesting things to do, and just like all good big cities, most people go in just to have a nice time and spend their money. what use is having lots of money if you cannot really spend it

[@ubiquitous_star584]

jack freeman There are wayyyyyy worse places to live than London. Lots of us are born here and don't want to leave. The people who migrate here usually come from places that are worse then the UK which is understandable since it isn't that bad here compared to some places.

[@2011littlejohn1]

I have lived in London myself and always liked it. My point was why complain about the prices etc? Either do something about it - operate the equilibrium price theory which could be done with organized effort or leave.

[@georgiosvergakis5666]

Many people mistakenly think that just because a city is expensive, it must also pay good salaries, but it's not true, if the influx of money into the city stops, its economy will collapse. In fact, urban areas are not economically self sufficient, either money or workforce have to flow in, and wealth always flows out of a large geographical area into a smaller one, it's a fact of physics, not just economics.

[@leelasatya6776]

£25.000 as a starting salary is a good start, and you are correct. However, you didn't say that this salary will hardly increase over the next 10 years of your career. 10 years later, you'll have £35.000 and that's it.

[@nooralamfoundation4970]

Leela Satya where are such jobs?

[@nanezferrer3565]

25k euro per month ?

[@shanableach]

Good thing I went to London on a vacation before moving there to study 😅 I gave up quickly after that

[@michaelking8267]

Why did you give up.

[@ninjaman2254]

You need a £100,000 per annum salary to live central London

[@boiledfrog5739]

Bobby Samra nah 1500 per month thats enough to live in london ,if u got a partner will be nice in london.

[@guilexrp6993]

boiled frog you’ve lost it

[@rousod]

@@boiledfrog5739 i spend 1k a month for a shithole in stratford what are u talking about. but if you have a partner thats good that is true

[@vikashsolanki8267]

any job vacancy please contact me

[@samanthahardy9903]

How can you afford to live in London. 1. Get a job. 2. Buy a tent. 3. Become a Freegan. Ie. Dumpster diving for food. A lot of jobs don't pay £10,000 per year and it's these jobs that are mainly available. Even University graduates are working for minimum wage in Macdonalds! So yes, come to London if you plan to work 2 or more jobs, working 7 days a week and are willing to work over 100 hours per week on minimum wage just so you can eat and pay your rent and travel, with no time for a social life. GOOD LUCK. YOU'RE GOING TO NEED IT.

[@MissCatherine1100]

SHARE A BEDROOM?! : 0 never!

[@bevardoss]

how about sharing a bed and rent is free?

[@jamesb4434]

Ano I could rent a good flat in glasgow for thr price of a bedroom share in London

[@misfit2022]

Here's one for you ave salary take home per month 30k, £1,750 so work out if you can afford everything out of that salary and if not move out of London. Double bed in Tufnell Park years ago was £800 pcm so unsure about the £600 limit as Tufnell Park is not central London. Graduates these days are working in McDonalds so if you are a graduate do not get too excited. Imho choose a different city. London is overrated and expect rents to rise faster than discussed here due to the issues with house prices. You can get good salaries outside London.

[@shantife]

do you mean nett or brutto salary??

[@misfit2022]

shantife £30k is gross and £1,750 is approximate net it may be slightly higher it was a guess but even if slightly higher any student loan will bring it down anyway and even though the interest is low it is still debt so get it paid off. I say that as someone who got ridiculously in debt at one point so I know debt well. I digress so my calls are off the net as you can't calculate off the gross as it includes Tax and NI

[@shantife]

that's really low for UK, I live in Croatia but rent here and some other items are a lot cheaper, I thought people in UK had higher salary, is your average or?

[@Perfekcyjna91]

30,000 per year in London or in the UK in general is considered as a good salary ... but If you have a look at property prices for example it is not that much unfortunately :( You do need to have a good job to be able to earn those 30 K... The minimum wage is half of that and around 15,000 per year . The salaries listed above are before tax.

[@raywangjierui2825]

pathetic. 20k pounds is less than my household income per month.. anyway us landlords should unite and leave the properties empty, rather than reduce the price.

[@shantife]

How is 20 000 £/ year enough for London? It does not add up at all.

[@Perfekcyjna91]

It is not enough...

[@vanessaruiz4705]

that's about £1300 per month after taxes. Of course it's enough. My salary is like that and I save £300 every month. My rent is £560, I only share the bathroom with one person and i am 10 min away from Stratford. People are just obsessed with living in zone 2 and accept all kind of abusive rents...

[@BIG2hats]

@@vanessaruiz4705 £560? we don't want to be living next to the rats!

[@vanessaruiz4705]

@@BIG2hats excuse me? what is that even supposed to mean?

[@wojciechkupczyk12]

Every German city is a village compared to the size of London. 35 miles from east to west and 33 miles from north to south and that is a lot of kilometers. Camden town is small and the London Borough of Camden is one of the smaller of London's 33 boroughs. From HIghgate to the north to Holborn in the south.

[@cloudypalms3803]

I find it interesting to see so many people say London is expensive. The only things that can be seen as expensive are rent, travel and possibly restaurants depending on where you go. Personally, most people I know that lived outside of London and live below the midlands/south of England, pay about £650 pm for a room plus bills. They drive a car, which they had to buy, insure, pay for petrol and pay parking costs. Restaurants are the same price pretty much. I actually calculated it was cheaper for me to live in London than anywhere else in the south of England. To put this into perspective , I'll give you a breakdown: Rents for living in zone 3 over a 5 year period (2015-2019) all in modern well-maintained shared houses and including bills and cleaning products - £325 pcm , £350 pcm, £500 pcm. Travel card zone 1-3 about £135 pcm (probably gone up now) Food, phone bill, misc expenses and going out/eating out expenses - same as anywhere in the South of England unless you decided to go to really posh places or you drink a lot of alcohol. For example, a pint is about £5 (but in South of England you would expect about £4 anyway), cocktails in central London could be £8-15, a posh meal out with 3 courses could be £35-50. For all my my time in London I bought pretty much all my lunches out and ate out 2-3 times a week for dinner or equivalent in takeaway. I pretty much lived on under £1000 when I calculated it, I was surprised how little I was spending. The BIG thing you need to do is make sure you get the ideal location of your rental property, I got such low rents because I researched areas, decided how long I would be happy for my commute to be, and acted quickly when I saw a room I wanted to rent so I could get the low rents. I also must say that my rooms that were around the £300 mark were tiny one beds, but I lived in a house with 2 lounges, a big kitchen and a garden at that time, and only shared with 3 others.

[@kostasveronis5882]

well I live in Frankfurt its not expensive as London but..for a tiny flat out of city just one room I must paying 600€ every month.the guarantee for this was 2000€.the transportation cost for a year card is 1000€.

[@olyalya6380]

Kostas Veronis Germany is cheaper than UK and salaries are higher.

[@bananavevo2291]

if I buy a house in London ill put a room up for 50 pcm if you cant pay ill wait amonth ut you have to pay double u can do anything

[@remembermyname2697]

actually I wish one day I live on London but I feel afraid after this video . here in Egypt the most expensive sandwiche costs only 1 p

[@MsPardaillan]

+Mahmoud Elhofy And here in London £5 !

[@sydbarrettmadcap]

how did a comment about the price of sandwiches end up like this?!

[@Spacecadet09662]

sydbarrettmadcap well that escalated quickly...

[@snackysnacks9028]

well fuck me that's cheap

[@francanwafor6185]

Mahmoud Elhofy what the fuck?

[@dennisgypsy3096]

I rent studio flat in east London for 650 Its brand new flat so I guess I am lucky

[@Isleofskye]

Average London House Price is now £ 600,000 !!!!!!!!!!

[@Bxcs]

Okay, this is maybe a real weird question but you can do a hair care routine? Because you hair looks so healthy and shiny and I'm so jealous! I'm going to work for a host family in April btw and I'm so excited!

[@mindyxm]

Thank you, this sounds very accurate and is very helpful.

[@rosalarryli]

Vielen Dank für diese Video, es hat mir extrem geholfen eine Vorstellung von den Preisen zu bekommen. Für mich gehts in zwei Wochen auf unbestimmte Zeit nach GB und da helfen mir deine Videos wirklich sehr. Vielen Dank dafür!

[@SandyMakesSense]

+rosalarryli Gar kein Problem :) Hoffe du hast viel Spass hier :)

[@thesomersetcidermucker6528]

i live in a one bedroom flat £400 pcm, futher north of england you go the cheaper the rental prices, i reside in somerset its cheep here and steeped with more tradition value.

[@EdenoftheEast100]

Honestly it doesn't sound bad. That's about how much people pay in my town and our minimum wage is $9

[@SvenTviking]

You need to go to less fashionable area. Plumstead, quick, because it’s about to get the best transport links in London.

[@Kuziai]

London is like this. Once you are 20-21 you come here with a dream. Work hard follow your dreams for 10 years and leave London with ur dreams hopefully fullfiled.

[@AsifAli-zf3oq]

Sandy If I want to visit UK do u help me and can u tell me tourist visa for 14 days available or not

[@Ljaymuse]

I'm currently applying for jobs in London with my partner and although I have a friend who lives in Woolwich I found this video to be very useful indeed. It is quite daunting to even be trying it but I am so excited by the prospect at the same time so I just wanted to say thank you for your informative and interesting video. I've subscribed as well so I'm off to watch some of your other content! =)

[@SandyMakesSense]

+Luke Jones amazing thanks so much! :) I'll upload another job related video this Thursday :)

[@NGC6144]

From the renting norms in southern California, those London rates aren't high. Expect to pay around $1500(>900 British pounds) for a single bedroom in Orange County. It's New York and San Fransisco that have astronomically high rent rates.

[@volundrfrey896]

+NGC6144 £650 per person, not for the flat. £1300 for two people in a 1 bedroom flat. Orange county is also a quite specific area. Certain parts of London are more expensive than others, this video is for the cheaper parts.

[@benbim540]

+NGC6144 a lot of areas in london a 1 bedroom flat can rent at several thousand pounds a month.

[@alexbenjamin9372]

Yeah £900 can get you a studio flat in a bad part of London. For a semi decent flat in London your expecting to pay at least around 1,800 a month

[@saffron6432]

+Crusty Moe FML 😩😩😩

[@jaredfocose2048]

+Völundr Frey -- I always heard London was expensive, which has kept me from considering it as a realistic place to work and live for many years. Now that I know it is much less expensive than the Bay Area AND more fun/exciting, I am dreaming of coming to London and leaving California behind! I currently live in Sunnyvale (a decent area in the north-west of San Jose) and I pay $2400/mo for a below-average apartment (old appliances, single-pane windows, no washer/dryer, no temperature control, etc.) -- a price which will be going up by at least $200 when my lease contract is finished in April and I have to sign a new one. If the apartment managers are feeling greedy -- especially if they know I have no better options -- they could raise it to $2800, $3000, or even higher! Since California has no law which limits rent increases, it's up to the renter to somehow negotiate a reasonable rate.

[@jamelee1334]

Get salaries in London just to survive!!! We don't call life. Come on!!! why we need to live in sharing bedroom or flatshare. Those prices are still too high even one bedroom apartment or tiny studio. Other countries we can get the whole house or a large modern apartment.

[@andrewf4623]

You’re much better off renting your own studio flat than a room in a shared house, it’s not a lot more expensive

[@jrgboy]

I am lucky, I am over 60 so I bought my subsidised flat in West London outright

[@anthonystar]

Property and rent prices have rocketed since I was there in the 90's. An option for a tourist or student is a hostel that provides breakfast and supper :)

[@aleathtuthranduriel]

Danke Dir für dieses Video. Das hat mir sehr geholfen, da ich bald meine Praktika in London machen werde, wo natürlich die Unterkunft nicht mit drin enthalten ist. Viel Erfolg weiterhin! :) Im Übrigen bin ich auf Dich über Deine Schwester gestoßen :D

[@SandyMakesSense]

+aleathtuthranduriel Cool und hallo!! :) Hoffe das klappt alles mit den Finanzen hier!!

[@MS-eq1cy]

Depends what job you’re doing and where you want to live. For example my friends rent a 2 bedroom flat with his family in zone 2 south west London and pays around £1400 while I live in suburbs and pay the half of that for 2 bedroom as well. I don’t think is worth living close to centre unless you have a over 50k job

[@guilexrp6993]

M Peony19 70 tbh

[@nimanixo]

What is the suburbs In London 😂 I don’t think you live in London

[@indrishahdorval3094]

In Canada a room is 300$/month that's mean 175,65GBP for you... That's insane how it's expensive there...

[@ramsey633]

london is expensive for people who legally work and pay tax but is free for the hordes of immigrants who now live for free in all the council flats and have loads of kids and use the schools hospitals for free,just take a walk around a council estate in london and you can see the facts,

[@HannahIvanka]

So helpful! :) And I freaking love your hair! Haha

[@azxsdc]

Last summer I lived in zone 4th and I paid 100 pounds per week for one bedroom :D So I guess I was lucky!

[@SandyMakesSense]

Mind blown - did you have a door? 🤣

[@azxsdc]

@@SandyMakesSense haha yes xd

[@mikejjohnson5547]

Thank God I live in the Netherlands. I pay 400 Pond for my house and has 4 bedrooms. Plus I get paid at my Work Operator 2500 pound. Feel very said for the people working hard in uk and living in a small room .

[@olyalya6380]

mike J Johnson Netherlands has much higher standards of living than UK. London is the embodiment of misery.

[@terminalfrost3645]

it's actually cheaper outside of london, london doesn't=UK. It's like trying to live in NYC and saying the US is way too expensive to live in.

[@c3realK1ll4h]

uk is cheaper, but london is expensive, but salaries are higher than netherlands over here

[@lelachesis7889]

I am happy that I ll live in London with my brother and his fiancé since we all three already have jobs there... About 65k a year and all expenses in three is quite good

[@gatotrofh25]

You need at least 40.000 if you are single and at least 60.000 pounds with a family to live as a normal person in London with being ultra economic!

[@MrAllysonn]

Honestly, that is the reason why I want to go to Manchester or Liverpool to live in. As, London is so expensive.

[@senatrottier8033]

I live in S. California US, your prices are very low in comparison. I am located 45 miles east of Los Angeles. If I'm correct (maybe not) I pay approximately 1,700 dollars a month which is 1390.48 £. monthly. This total does not include my utilities. My salary is moderate for US standards. I wish I had all of that culture, and close proximity to other countries for travel. Thanks for the information!!

[@clarissamcpigeon7857]

Q: How can you afford to live in London? A: You can't, unless you want to live like a rat, feel left behind and have your entire life on hold while your friends in Manchester and Glasgow are getting married, having kids, buying houses and cars. London is a fake bubble which is all about treading water while keeping up appearances. You miss out on so much of "the real world" by living there and you will soon realise that career isn't everything. What's the point in POSSIBLY earning more (not everyone does!) just to be working so hard you can't enjoy it and not have anything to show for it? You still can't afford a house and this ridiculous house-share merry go round gets very boring by the time you're 28 or so. You say you'll never leave London - trust me, you will. Everyone eventually does and even multi-millionaire CEOs all live in wealthy suburban towns like Weybridge. Those who actually can afford to live comfortably in London almost never do. That £600-650 per bedroom you quote? Go just 30-45 minutes outside of London and you can have a proper one bed flat for that money - and live there alone. 45-60 minutes out and you get a 2 bed flat. Go to somewhere like Glasgow? That's a three bed flat with balcony just 20 minutes walk from the heart of the city and in terms of your salary compared to London, it's only about a 15-20% pay cut. That's really not bad considering how cheap everything else is.

[@Derpaherpa123]

Spot on and well said

[@siddharthparashar9004]

Could you tell me how much salary is good for living in any other city than London

[@bhumiworld5080]

1 GBP = 1.36 EUR ??? This is a historical video now.

[@stephenriley6449]

How many people, especially young folk, go on the game to "make ends meet"?

[@magicmathbymimi6051]

Lol. In Austria, you pay the same for a room in a student home, where you also get shared facilities like a shared bathroom and kitchen. Here in Iceland I pay for my student dorm room 750 Euro. And I also share my kitchen XD

[@KaiRaphixx]

are you serious? London is way cheaper than my current living place. I pay 470€ rent for 1 Bedroom and get 23.000 Euro per year.

[@pinkieee7415]

the rent isn't that bad in london, in Hong Kong you need 1000 quid for a 250 square feet flat. very difficult

[@caeruleusaurum1550]

1 bedroom average rent in London is £1600....

[@80skid83]

If you can't get a job for at least 20k in London, time to turn to benefits and queue up at dole office

[@keithacosta7358]

I regret moving to London. It's miserable.

[@80skid83]

keith acosta it's shite !!!!!!

[@SandyMakesSense]

+keith acosta oh no I'm sorry to read this ❤️well it's not for everyone but for me it's definitely the opposite.

[@mobrown7594]

keith acosta London sucks for real

[@summerrr1]

We wish you hadn’t as well

[@Tokyo22111]

Miserable how? Just wanna know not giving out or anything :)

[@Judy874]

20 000 pounds minimum leaves you with 1666 pounds a month, is this the minimum wage in London?? By the way, living in London in dorms ( for university purposes) is so expensive :( it is about 400 pounds PER WEEK!! this is if you want to share a room with another person and in a safe place.

[@caeruleusaurum1550]

Minimum wage in London is £12,000

[@marianneberge6850]

check out abitohomes.co.uk

[@ashifmajid7697]

Thanks for great informative video.

[@vikinggoesglobal]

For a foreigner in my last year in uni in Newcastle that is hoping to move to London this was so helpful! :) Thank you! Xxx

[@SandyMakesSense]

+CathrinesCastle Awesome - Really happy to read that :)

[@impamiizgraa]

Not sure this should be trusted. I earn £38K and I still don’t think that would be enough to live comfortably in London, I live outside in the Home Counties and commute in to my central London office. I’m not willing to compromise my quality of life for a London post code. I’m impressed if anyone can afford to live on £20K in London but I would urge people to think about living elsewhere (ideally working there too but if not, paying a couple hundred extra a month to commute). You will have your own lovely place in a green area with fresh air and great links to central, minus the crime, rats and with hundreds more a month to enjoy London at the weekend!

[@HALLIWEL07]

So if you make 20,000£ how can u pay rent and all the other expenses like car, insurance, food , internet , cellphone service etc I'm really confuse right know I make around 30,000 in us and barely make the cut living on my own paying a rent of 660

[@HALLIWEL07]

Taylor it is not common to have a car in london then ? Or you guys just use public transportation

[@LDNpat]

who the hell has a car in London lol everyone uses public transportation and not just in London... this is not America where you need a car to survive... also you dont have to pay hundreds for private health care insurance either as it is free

[@HoneybeeAdventures]

Patrix542 healthcare is not free it comes out of our NI contributions every month

[@LDNpat]

yeah ok whatever, the point is in America they take even a larger percentage of your wages away through taxes AND you still have to pay like $300 per person for healthcare every month AND even then you pay when you visit a doctor, but instead of paying $200 for a doctor visit you pay $20... so in England in comparison it really is free as these NI contributions are tiny in comparison

[@ChristopherisnotanAI]

Patrix542 actually​ if you're on the lower end of the income spectrum in America you pay less tax then we do in England.

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

A £20,000 sounds pretty good for an entry-level job, but no, I don't fancy living in London. The rent, the crime, the traffic, the noise levels and the pollution are among the worst in the country. I'm renting large-ish a self-contained one-bedroom flat in a quiet area for £550 per month, and for the same money you can rent a small two-bedroom house in a slightly busier area of the same town if you wish. I'm about 80 miles from London so it's easy to visit if I need to. I don't work in London, but if I did I'd probably look for somewhere a little closer but still well away from the M25; maybe somewhere like Chelmsford or Southend-on-sea.

[@caeruleusaurum1550]

You'll be lucky to even earn £20,000 as an entry job currently.

[@clarissamcpigeon7857]

Chelmsford is a hidden gem. It's still very affordable and has 99% of everything you need, still just 35 minutes from Liverpool Street. You wouldn't believe how many young professionals board and leave the trains at Chelmsford. These people are supposed to be living the "London life", right? But they don't.

[@redeye751]

1 tl =4.35£. ohh this is so Expencive for me.

[@kayjay12341]

Haha. Is she insane? £600 ? More like £750-£900 for a room luv

[@SandyMakesSense]

+Karl Jones I'm paying 600 ;)

[@kayjay12341]

SandyMakesSense I'm sure you are but it's not the norm. For a good double room in london in a good house or apartment it's slightly more PCM on average. I know this. I rent hundreds of rooms across the city

[@SandyMakesSense]

+Karl Jones Depends what you consider as good I guess :)

[@NattyRose]

I live a in a double room for 550 but I am in zone 4 and the house is shared with other 7 people buuuut it has 4 bathroom a living room a big kitchen and a big garden i think I was just lucky

[@Not_a_number_]

Kay Jay It depends on who divvies up the house. Some people prefer to get a group together and rent a whole flat or a house together which can work out considerably cheaper for the room than renting a room which the landlord has advertised singly.

[@daniebajan6306]

love your hair!

[@SandyMakesSense]

+danie bajan thanks 💁🏼

[@saifkhan-gl7yy]

I earn 30k a year and I am still struggling with bills and rent

[@theburritosalad1956]

saif khan lol I’m not sure if studying civil eng anymore

[@rousod]

@@theburritosalad1956 im doing my masters in civil engineering

[@theburritosalad1956]

rousod and how is it?

[@rousod]

TheBurritoSalad its alright its supposed to be paying good. When you start working you should specialise, see what you like to do. But im buying my assignments to be honest and then im going back to my country to work at my parents business

[@samanthahardy9903]

I know someone with an engineering degree and he's ended up working in a supermarket because no company in the UK has vacancies.

[@Hobbitforever]

First second into the video: You look so pretty! *_* That's such a great look for you. ... okay now back to watching the video :D

[@lukasmig3]

Hi @Sandy thank you for great great info :)

[@invade9740]

wow this is tooX3 much here in jordan u need 1k to live normal life and if rent home cost 500 Pound (this is the maximum) u need 1500k to live on the clouds

[@dsinghr]

question is who will take the living room ?

[@RyanRentalsReact]

Some great Advice! We need to catch up soon! :D

[@SandyMakesSense]

+Foreverjakec Deffo!!!

[@summerrr1]

Need at least 80k a year for a single person. I can't imagine having to try to live on 20k in London. Sad for those people who do.

[@aguafria9565]

Not worth it for me. My disposable income is higher in Australia or New Zealand.

[@Rooo8]

It is higher everywhere in the developed world.

[@c3realK1ll4h]

actually no, i earn £30000 a year doing security, you wont become rich and do well in any developed city with minimum wage jobs, spain/germany/bnetherlands/sweden/france all pay lower

[@SimonS44]

Do you think I'd be cheaper if you lived outside London but in a place with a good train connection?

[@rockranjit7486]

i am indian i will be come to london how much i have get a salary credit and i was working in car production company....

[@TahirHussainMir24]

I am getting 60000 pounds a year. How much can i save and what about taxes?

[@yashshah5971]

Your hair is freaking beautiful!

[@kashkash5195]

fressshy

[@gavinlamborghini783]

why is wages so crappy in England? its a developed nation ..

[@ubiquitous_star584]

Gavin Lamborghini Lots of people and less jobs.

[@willrichardson519]

45 years of old school economics...

[@techbase7747]

It's a myth. It's not developed enough. Very crowded island with lots of people living on bwnefits

[@pemadao2]

What? I can't imagine living on £20,000 willingly in 2015. I am an American, lived in London for 7 years, my annual salary ranged from £28,000 in 2005 to £35,000 in 2012. I remember those years as some of the leanest times, the financially poorest years of my life. I loved London, but I lived paycheck to paycheck. Thankfully I am back in the US and earn about 4 times what I earned in London, and the cost of living is slightly lower here. I never want to go back. Love London, but I don't want to ever be that poor again.

[@ElliesWorld]

Always love your videos - I'll keep this for future use! :D

[@SandyMakesSense]

+Ellie Newman Yessss :)

[@mrmrsbaron5364]

Nice video, and I really like your accent

[@SandyMakesSense]

Thank you :)

[@arshadali057]

Very good Information.. thank you for sharing..

[@RecklessSerenadeYT]

Vielen Dank für das hilfreiche Video! Bitte hör niemals auf diese Videos zu machen :D Du bist mit Abstand die hilfreichste Quelle mit Infos, wenn es um London geht. Ich bin soo froh dich abonniert zu haben! :) Hast du Tipps für jemanden, der "nur" Abitur und kein Studium als Erfahrung angeben kann und trotzdem einen Job in London finden möchte um zu überleben? :D

[@thefeelingofunfair4052]

American here. Is she talking about someone with zero work experience and no degree making it in london!?

[@carrismorton3748]

lol i live in london and your video is THE TRUTH! LOL

[@ievapetrauskaite5117]

hey;) thank you for this video, it was very useful. I wonder in which neibourhood of London you live? Maybe you could name a few which you recommend and a few you would suggest to avoid. Thanks! :)

[@PeteS_1994]

The thing about the least expensive areas in London is that they seem more crime ridden.

[@SandyMakesSense]

+Pete S. might be true for some but now all - especially if you move further out

[@faheemriaz9734]

I use to rent 4 bedrooms flat in Scotland in £400. But I come to London now and paying £600 for just a room in shared house with 7 others

[@SandyMakesSense]

Sounds about right

[@NewInBritain]

applying for jobs that pay you more than 25000