Do you still need to live in London to 'make it?'

I don't get what's so un appealing about London

If by 'make it' you mean earn >£200k to pay down the >£70k of mortgage repayments on your two bedroom flat then yes. And if you think that means you still have 100k left over after basic living expenses, nope, that's gone as tax.

London is an idiotbox.

If by 'make it' you mean earn >£200k to pay down the >£70k of mortgage repayments on your two bedroom flat then yes. And if you think that means you still have 100k left over after basic living expenses, nope, that's gone as tax.

London is an idiotbox.

Desperately want to find a job in statistics up north

can't stand London

I remember going to an open day at a London university. It was north London at about 2pm in the afternoon, so not central London and not rush hour, and it was incredibly busy and overcrowded on the roads and streets. It was several times as bad as rush hour in the centre of a normal city, and it was only north London at 2pm, imagine what central london at rush hour is like! Way too much noise of traffic and every breath felt like I was breathing in a ton of smoke, the air was THAT polluted. It was awful. How anyone can live in an environment like that is beyond me. Other cities feel much cleaner and far less crowded.

It's a trend still I see that most of the jobs in my field are in London. On the search engine you'll get 3 jobs for Yorkshire and The Humber and 300+ jobs for London.

London to me feels so close yet so far away. It is like a foreign land to me. Like London could be its own country due to being so different to the rest of the UK. It also seems so unreachable as it seems so expensive to live there. How do people who live in London cope? Is it even worth moving down there because that's where all the jobs are at?

Should i I stay up North or consider moving down South?

You make it sound like people repay thier >70k mortgage in 1 year, hope I'm completely wrong on this.

Well this is a dumb argument. Nobody pays that much on their mortgage unless you have a mansion in Chelsea or something, in which case you would be earning way more than 200k anyway

I'm sure if you live in London your entire life you get used to it. f you're from somewhere else it's a pretty unbearable place.

I feel exactly the opposite of you.

To me, anything north of London is barren, uninhabitable wasteland.


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I moved to London in September having been brought up in Northumberland and gone to uni in Bath. It took me a couple of weeks to adjust, especially to the general speed of life and the constant traffic noise (I live just off a fairly busy road).

But by no means is it a depressing place, if you approach it with an open mind. There is so much to do and travel so easy. It's expensive but salaries are accordingly higher.

You'll get out of London what you put into it.

It's a trend still I see that most of the jobs in my field are in London. On the search engine you'll get 3 jobs for Yorkshire and The Humber and 300+ jobs for London.

London to me feels so close yet so far away. It is like a foreign land to me. Like London could be its own country due to being so different to the rest of the UK. It also seems so unreachable as it seems so expensive to live there. How do people who live in London cope? Is it even worth moving down there because that's where all the jobs are at?

Should i I stay up North or consider moving down South?

Hahahahaha. Buying a 2 bed flat outright for £70,000 isn't happening outside the more decrepit parts of the North.

So let's see. According to BBC mortgage calculator, £70k/year of repayments corresponds to a £1m property value at 5% (lower range of trend borrowing rates).

This will just about buy you this unfurnished 2 bedroom flat in a brick apartment block above a shop in Hampstead, NW6. That letter head will impress your friends!

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Now let's see what your friends in the provinces can buy for that money. How about a 6 bedroom detached house in Leeds with spacious garden, and £250k left in your pocket?

Hahahahaha. Buying a 2 bed flat outright for £70,000 isn't happening outside the more decrepit parts of the North.

So let's see. According to BBC mortgage calculator, £70k/year of repayments corresponds to a £1m property value at 5% (lower range of trend borrowing rates).

This will just about buy you this unfurnished 2 bedroom flat in a brick apartment block above a shop in Hampstead, NW6. That letter head will impress your friends!

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Now let's see what your friends in the provinces can buy for that money. How about a 6 bedroom detached house in Leeds with spacious garden, and £250k left in your pocket?