Revealed: True Cost of Living in London (2024)

For that rent you and your boyfriend could get a mortgage on a one bed flat.

Super helpful video! Young professional moving to London later this week and I've made an excel sheet with my monthly budget and all my planned expenses match line-up quite closely with the ones in this video! Huge sigh of relief for sure

Thanks for your video👍

Converting your expenses to dollars, your rent still looks like a bargain given its location, and your grocery expenses are very modest. My closest US city is Boston, MA, and even if I could live and work using public transportation, I couldn't live as cheaply there.

Thank you so much! What places would you recommend that might be more affordable for a single person further out from the city (but with good transportation links)? I was looking at Reading as a possibility