how are Brits so poor yet the country is damn expensive?

[Anonymous]

You can read about salaries in the UK on Reddit. Let's take London for an example, because it should be the highest earning area of the entire damn country. See.thesw discussions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/nzxqou/what_salary_do_you_actually_need_to_live_in_london/

https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/udnxjn/londoners_in_your_20s_and_30s_let_talk_salaries/

https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/16oe8r0/how_is_2025k_still_an_acceptable_salary_to_offer/


Now you can criticize these examples for being old, but they really haven't changed over the years. I just cannot understand how people in Britain can survive on such trash salaries, even in London. There's a big stink right now because the mayor of London is making something like 190k pounds, which is nothing. We made $350k USD, which almost 280k pounds, and yet we find GB to be insanely expensive in even smaller towns and cities. We paid almost 50 pounds for just two glasses of wine and a little bit of cheese today in a smaller city. Rents were also running almost 3k.pounds per month in the realtor window we saw. How do Brits afford this and survive when I feel like Americans make double and still find the country expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can read about salaries in the UK on Reddit. Let's take London for an example, because it should be the highest earning area of the entire damn country. See.thesw discussions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/nzxqou/what_salary_do_you_actually_need_to_live_in_london/

https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/udnxjn/londoners_in_your_20s_and_30s_let_talk_salaries/

https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/16oe8r0/how_is_2025k_still_an_acceptable_salary_to_offer/


Now you can criticize these examples for being old, but they really haven't changed over the years. I just cannot understand how people in Britain can survive on such trash salaries, even in London. There's a big stink right now because the mayor of London is making something like 190k pounds, which is nothing. We made $350k USD, which almost 280k pounds, and yet we find GB to be insanely expensive in even smaller towns and cities. We paid almost 50 pounds for just two glasses of wine and a little bit of cheese today in a smaller city. Rents were also running almost 3k.pounds per month in the realtor window we saw. How do Brits afford this and survive when I feel like Americans make double and still find the country expensive.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/01/what-have-fourteen-years-of-conservative-rule-done-to-britain

[Anonymous]

Wealthy expats and Russian oligarchs.

[Anonymous]

They don’t afford it. They live in much smaller homes, have fewer cars, fewer clothes etc. Anyone with British friends know they have a lot less stuff and can afford less entertainment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don’t afford it. They live in much smaller homes, have fewer cars, fewer clothes etc. Anyone with British friends know they have a lot less stuff and can afford less entertainment.

+1. They barely turn on the heat in the winter, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don’t afford it. They live in much smaller homes, have fewer cars, fewer clothes etc. Anyone with British friends know they have a lot less stuff and can afford less entertainment.

Well who the hell is buying all of these 30-40 pound dinner plates, 15 pound glasses of wine, and 9 pound baskets of strawberries? These are literally prices we saw all day in small towns and smaller cities that weren't even London. GB is expensive AF. I wanna know how Brits earning garbage salaries afford there own damn country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don’t afford it. They live in much smaller homes, have fewer cars, fewer clothes etc. Anyone with British friends know they have a lot less stuff and can afford less entertainment.

They definitely have a lot less stuff. Fewer smaller cars, fridges etc.

As for entertainment, I would guess the average Brit is more entertained, and entertaining, than the average American.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t afford it. They live in much smaller homes, have fewer cars, fewer clothes etc. Anyone with British friends know they have a lot less stuff and can afford less entertainment.

Well who the hell is buying all of these 30-40 pound dinner plates, 15 pound glasses of wine, and 9 pound baskets of strawberries? These are literally prices we saw all day in small towns and smaller cities that weren't even London. GB is expensive AF. I wanna know how Brits earning garbage salaries afford there own damn country.

Tourists and foreigners. Real Brits are using hand me down dishes and growing their own strawberries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t afford it. They live in much smaller homes, have fewer cars, fewer clothes etc. Anyone with British friends know they have a lot less stuff and can afford less entertainment.

They definitely have a lot less stuff. Fewer smaller cars, fridges etc.

As for entertainment, I would guess the average Brit is more entertained, and entertaining, than the average American.

England is not an entertaining place: bad weather, lots of boozing and watching soccer. They rush to Spain for a reason.

[Anonymous]

I am watching a show (from 2018 so not new) called Rich Kids Go Skint on Amazon Prime, about rich UK kids moving in with a poor family for two days. It is so enlightening. The rich kids don't even seem rich compared to US kids at all, and the poor people live on something like $70/week for food for four + people, earn 10k a year...It is insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t afford it. They live in much smaller homes, have fewer cars, fewer clothes etc. Anyone with British friends know they have a lot less stuff and can afford less entertainment.

Well who the hell is buying all of these 30-40 pound dinner plates, 15 pound glasses of wine, and 9 pound baskets of strawberries? These are literally prices we saw all day in small towns and smaller cities that weren't even London. GB is expensive AF. I wanna know how Brits earning garbage salaries afford there own damn country.

Why are you cursing so much? Do you think what it makes what you are talking about sound more important to us?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t afford it. They live in much smaller homes, have fewer cars, fewer clothes etc. Anyone with British friends know they have a lot less stuff and can afford less entertainment.

Well who the hell is buying all of these 30-40 pound dinner plates, 15 pound glasses of wine, and 9 pound baskets of strawberries? These are literally prices we saw all day in small towns and smaller cities that weren't even London. GB is expensive AF. I wanna know how Brits earning garbage salaries afford there own damn country.

Why are you cursing so much? Do you think what it makes what you are talking about sound more important to us?

Keep whining, cat lady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t afford it. They live in much smaller homes, have fewer cars, fewer clothes etc. Anyone with British friends know they have a lot less stuff and can afford less entertainment.

Well who the hell is buying all of these 30-40 pound dinner plates, 15 pound glasses of wine, and 9 pound baskets of strawberries? These are literally prices we saw all day in small towns and smaller cities that weren't even London. GB is expensive AF. I wanna know how Brits earning garbage salaries afford there own damn country.

Why are you cursing so much? Do you think what it makes what you are talking about sound more important to us?

It's OP's signature style: ranting with curse words.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don’t afford it. They live in much smaller homes, have fewer cars, fewer clothes etc. Anyone with British friends know they have a lot less stuff and can afford less entertainment.

+1. Brit guide was shocked we had 4 cars for five people but the public transportation is terrible where we live (not DMV).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t afford it. They live in much smaller homes, have fewer cars, fewer clothes etc. Anyone with British friends know they have a lot less stuff and can afford less entertainment.

Well who the hell is buying all of these 30-40 pound dinner plates, 15 pound glasses of wine, and 9 pound baskets of strawberries? These are literally prices we saw all day in small towns and smaller cities that weren't even London. GB is expensive AF. I wanna know how Brits earning garbage salaries afford there own damn country.

Why are you cursing so much? Do you think what it makes what you are talking about sound more important to us?

Keep whining, cat lady.

DP. You sound uneducated when you curse to make a point.