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

[Anonymous]

There are a lot of rich people there who are living a great life but don’t talk about it because it’s tacky and rude and liable to get the poors upset.

[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.

Where exactly are you eating? I went to a nice Tuscan restaurant called Maremma in London a few months ago and about half the bottles of wine were £30-40. It was in Brixton. Also went to nice one called Minnow facing out onto Clapham Common and wine was similar price and entrees were £15-20. A glass of wine was £8. No taxes or 22% tip added on at the end.

If you are eating out in very chi chi parts of town like Mayfair, Kensington or Chelsea, I’m sure paying you would pay lot more.

[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.

I charge £3,000 monthly rent for my small 3 bedroom house in London. Which small town was this where they are charging £3,000 monthly rent and what sort of property was it? Some small towns, especially near London, are pretty well-to-do. If they are populated by people who commute into the city and are large properties then sure they won’t be cheap.

[Anonymous]

Have you not heard of the aristocracy? They own vast swaths of the country while the sad peasants do the work. Just like in the Middle Ages!

[Anonymous]

There is a reason there was Mad Cow disease in England. The they serve spinal cord and other absurdly low-end cuts of meat for cheap that you can’t buy in the States.

The problem is you are pricing out foods you want to eat and not looking at the random cheap stuff they have in the grocery or at low-end dining places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you not heard of the aristocracy? They own vast swaths of the country while the sad peasants do the work. Just like in the Middle Ages!

Has been this way since the Norman invasion!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you not heard of the aristocracy? They own vast swaths of the country while the sad peasants do the work. Just like in the Middle Ages!

Has been this way since the Norman invasion!

Yes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a reason there was Mad Cow disease in England. The they serve spinal cord and other absurdly low-end cuts of meat for cheap that you can’t buy in the States.

The problem is you are pricing out foods you want to eat and not looking at the random cheap stuff they have in the grocery or at low-end dining places.

Ha ha! Good one. They serve spinal cord?!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a reason there was Mad Cow disease in England. The they serve spinal cord and other absurdly low-end cuts of meat for cheap that you can’t buy in the States.

The problem is you are pricing out foods you want to eat and not looking at the random cheap stuff they have in the grocery or at low-end dining places.

Ha ha! Good one. They serve spinal cord?!!!!

Meat attached to the spinal cord…that is what caused Mad Cow. Super cheap and not allowed in the US…perhaps finally outlawed in the UK?

Just representative of some really low end food.

[Anonymous]

They don’t have to pay for or even consider saving for things like:

Healthcare
A pension
Transportation (you do not need a car)

Jobs have job security and guaranteed vacations. Paid maternity leave. Also very cheap to holiday in europe. Council estates gor the poor. Etc.

[Anonymous]

I work at the Federal Reserve Board and have worked a lot in my career with folks from the Bank of England. I became close friends with multiple individuals from the Bank of England. It honestly shocked me at how little they made. When I was making say $125K early in my career, someone similar at BoE was maybe around 60K GBP. Their entry level salaries were like 35K GBP right out of undergrad.

They often commuted long distances. The only real way to get a raise was to go to a private sector bank, then come back to the Bank of England in management. And even then, they would be making 135K GBP while their counterpart at the Fed Board made $225K+. It’s crazy.

[Anonymous]

Can we do the rest of Europe too? I have seriously wondered this. A friend in France in her made like 30k euros and I was shocked her salary was so low. A friend in London made 18k pounds and I wondered about that too.

I do think Americans have upped our standards of living to rates we really can’t afford. As noted by how many people have car payments.

[Anonymous]

They can spend more of their income because they have a better social safety net for health care and retirement. If you had better health insurance, didn't have to worry about retirement, and college for your kids would cost you $5-10K per year, you wouldn't have to save as much. Also, their houses, apartments, and cars are smaller.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a reason there was Mad Cow disease in England. The they serve spinal cord and other absurdly low-end cuts of meat for cheap that you can’t buy in the States.

The problem is you are pricing out foods you want to eat and not looking at the random cheap stuff they have in the grocery or at low-end dining places.

Ha ha! Good one. They serve spinal cord?!!!!

Meat attached to the spinal cord…that is what caused Mad Cow. Super cheap and not allowed in the US…perhaps finally outlawed in the UK?

Just representative of some really low end food.

You might want to do a little reading. Nobody was serving meat attached to the spinal cord.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a reason there was Mad Cow disease in England. The they serve spinal cord and other absurdly low-end cuts of meat for cheap that you can’t buy in the States.

The problem is you are pricing out foods you want to eat and not looking at the random cheap stuff they have in the grocery or at low-end dining places.

Ha ha! Good one. They serve spinal cord?!!!!

Meat attached to the spinal cord…that is what caused Mad Cow. Super cheap and not allowed in the US…perhaps finally outlawed in the UK?

Just representative of some really low end food.

You might want to do a little reading. Nobody was serving meat attached to the spinal cord.

I have…I lived there when several people died from Mad Cow. It was finally outlawed in the late 1990s now having researched it. It was dirt cheap meat.