I know expectations have now shifted, because they had to, but it's *mad* that as a reasonably high earning individual/a couple with okay salaries it's now essentially no longer possible to live in zone 2, just wasn't the case even a decade ago, social geography of London has changed *so much*
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If I worked remote I’d just live on the beach in the rockaways
Two-beds in Sutton are over that amount, and that ain't zone 2 (and the train service is much more sh1t than it used to be).
Running the risk of appearing a snob, I’m not, I’m from Tyseley but unless there’s been significant changes I can’t see the attraction of inner city Birmingham
This is why we should be teaching living cost budgeting in schools...
Reader, we moved to Manchester.
I manage quite a few new graduates, all of whom want to live in Zone 2 to get ‘the London experience,’ and I get that.
Three of them are in a flatshare in Vauxhall, paying about £1200/mo PER ROOM, plus bills.
I damn near fainted when one of them told me that. It’s gone crazy.
close to the sea tho! that'll be good for the soul!
And by that I mean, I live with five other strangers in an improperly licensed HMO.
The highlight was viewing a pokey flat in Peckham with the washing machine in the living room (?!)
But equally, why does *anyone* have to settle for this?