UK living
 

Hello UK people,

I want to be realistic, can you tell me , on average, what would be a living cost in UK Midlands.

So far I have figured out housing J450-J600pcm for 3 bedroom house.

What about:

1) Gas
2) Electricity
3) Council tax??
4) Internet
5) tv
6) food for 4
7) public transport ( bus? ) monthly pass
8) chinese/indian/sushi eating out
9) Small car 5 year old ( like Vauxhall ) cost and insurance
10) Bottle of beer

You name it what I missed :)

Thank'Ya!

£175 pw is basically the poverty line so work your way up from there.

TV License was about £150 per year last time I checked.

If you are a hard worker, in the UK, that is trying to make an honest living for yourself, and paying taxes... Your fucked...

But, if you wanna be a waste of space, stick a needle in your arm, and do drugs... The council pay for it all...

QFT

8char

Dont do it- english living in spain

Council tax approx £120 per month

why the hell would you want to live in the Midlands???

Gas & Electricity £150

Personally I wouldn't live in the Midlands, I live in the sunny south. But I doubt prices are very much different. Unless you want to live in some scummy shit hole.

Not anywhere that is anywhere near livable it wouldn't be. For a three bed house thats nothing flash, but ok area, you will need about £1000 ($1600) a month

1) Gas £1000 ($1600) a year
2) Electricity £1000 ($1600) a year
3) Council tax?? £1500 ($2400) a year
4) Internet £100 ($160) a year
5) tv £150 a year ($240)
6) food for 4 Depends on how much you eat? We feed 2 plus 2 children for £600 ($900) a month at least
7) public transport ( bus? ) monthly pass Never used a bus, only scum bags and smelly people go on busses
8) chinese/indian/sushi eating out, depends on how much you eat, but you can get away with £60-£100 for 4 without wine and eat decent enough
9) Small car 5 year old ( like Vauxhall ) cost and insurance Depends how much rust it has
10) Bottle of beer in the pub? £3.20 ($4.80)

I was thinking that too, but I'm sure there's a valid reason.

Most of the nicest places in the UK have no jobs, so one of the greatest things about working online is that you can go and live in some obscure cheap place that has no jobs, but does have beautiful scenery and a low crime rate, while everyone else has to head off to the slums

I wouldn't

3 bedroom house with garden, unfurnished, very nice area, but only low paid tourist jobs = £550 per month.

Will be different to that in the cities

You reading the Mail again?

if you don't have/want TV, do you still pay tax for it?

Up t' north maybe, no where decent though

Some truth in this. If you earn £100,000 + you'll be ok, but if you're on say £30,000 or less then maybe the council house people are better off, depending on how many offspring they produce

You have to pay double if you don't have one :winkwink:

Depends how you define decent, but I'm in a tourist area of Wales (by Snowdownia and the sea) with a low crime rate and just down the road from some of the best schools in the country. If people in London knew about the lifestyle here and could work remotely I'm sure a lot would relocate. Then house prices and rent would go up, so I won't mention it to them

There is a valid reason and i'm trying to figure out things. I found UK buses and trains pretty good, may be because I live in a shit hole myself.

Some people have a TV and try saying they don't watch it or that they only use it for computer games, the Gestapo never believe it

Everyone knows Wales is cheap, they chose not to live there because its a)full of Welsh people and b) It's possibly the most boring place on the planet outside of Leeds

:winkwink:

People who use buses usually smell of urine :2 cents:

It's cheap as it has no jobs. They always try to stimulate the economy here but it never works. Tourism and council jobs are the only things that keep Wales going.

Where I live isn't boring, lots to do here. I know other parts of Wales are very quiet and some people will find that boring.

I've lived all over the UK, moving every few years. London, Liverpool, Cambridge, Milton Keynes etc and so far this is by far the best place I've found, especially to bring up a family

The standard of living and quality of life in the UK is crap, compared to most other european countries at least.

But I am sure you know that already so good luck.

As mentioned above you might be underestimating the housing cost, or overestimating the area those prices are quoted in.

I paid at least 300 pounds for a shitty little room in a shared house as a student and that was about 7 years ago. And by shitty I mean damp, Victorian Age brick housing the interiors redone with what seemed to be plywood and mdf, which is pretty common I fear.

Anything more creative then this?

Wales fucking rulez boyo's!! hahah

WeHatePorn where you living?

I'm in cardiff, center of the universe! hahaha

Apart from me already taking up my own valuable time to answer all your questions for you, you mean?

Wales is where people who can't afford to live in England live. In the same way as Canada is for poor Americans

:winkwink:

PMS bitch.

hahah nice try but i wouldn't live in england. i like wales, just needs a better climate. will probably emigrate some time soonish anyway to europe.

Added you in ICQ mate, have a sec to chat?

He lives in Wales, you are moving to the Midlands.

I can see your going to get lost a lot on public transport

This might come as a shock, but wales is in Europe. Hard to believe I know, but it is

thats the best thing ive ever seen you post

yes i know you fountain of knowledge JT but i was speaking of mainland europe :thumbsup

Do you have to pay to pick up the accent, or does that come kit and caboodle?

Keep reading or search my name...

90% of my posts are shit... AGREED!

But I do make a few 'gems' or 'truths' along the way :thumbsup

If you like paying huge tax on everything and living in tiny houses you will love it!

I'm up the other end near Llandudno :thumbsup

thumbs up

No. The buses smell of piss - FACT

nice, i'll be up that way at some point soon, we'll have to go for a beer.

You bet! There are no other webmasters around here, but then again, how would I ever know, maybe there are. Get in touch when you're here :thumbsup

Thanks, Spudman is da man to really have it spoken and cleared out.

Fuck you cunt :winkwink:

The midlands is a shithole. HTH.

I think you'll find i'm not far away from you, just passed chester

i used to live in barnsley

You won't pick up the accent from the Midlands, no-one there speaks English. You can pick up a multitude of other languages though.

20 min's from me, Im near llanberis.

It's no shock to see another immigrant making a beeline for the midlands. I was born there and lived there for 30 odd years before i decided to get the fuck out of the shithole.