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Author	imtriing
Comment	I mean.. your experience may vary from mine! I was simply highlighting the tremendous gulf in actual quality of life based upon income between the 2 cities. £30k/year here is absolutely fine, you'd have a nice flat, more than enough expendable income to do with as you please, plenty of opportunity on your doorstep and probably enough money leftover to build a small cushion of savings. In London, however, that same salary would see you in a small room in a houseshare with mental people probably around an hour commute from your work, which costs a fair whack on an Oyster every month, water is a separate bill whereas in Glasgow it's included in Council Tax, food is more expensive, going out is almost prohibitively expensive, you can say bye byeee to the possibility of saving or going on holiday and you'll be so fucked from your commute and work that on your days off.. You won't want to do anything, and even if you did they're your only chance to do your washing and take care of basic life admin shit so they just end up passing you by.. The xenophobia thing.. I mean, obviously I'm biased because I'm from Glasgow - but I've found Glasgow a more accepting place than I observed London to be, but I suppose it really depends where you live and who you associate with. What I would say is.. definitely don't move to London in the hopes that it will improve your social life. It's such an exhausting city to survive in that it'll obliterate most any desire you have to attempt to make friends. At least in Glasgow, if you rent a flatshare, you can probably scrape by on 24-30hours a week of work at a job a 10 minute walk from home instead of having to hammer down 50 hours a week at a job that costs you an additional 10 hours a week to get to and from just to make ends meet.
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Created	Fri 18th Oct 2019 3:48pm
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I mean.. your experience may vary from mine! I was simply highlighting the tremendous gulf in actual quality of life based upon income between the 2 cities. £30k/year here is absolutely fine, you'd have a nice flat, more than enough expendable income to do with as you please, plenty of opportunity on your doorstep and probably enough money leftover to build a small cushion of savings. In London, however, that same salary would see you in a small room in a houseshare with mental people probably around an hour commute from your work, which costs a fair whack on an Oyster every month, water is a separate bill whereas in Glasgow it's included in Council Tax, food is more expensive, going out is almost prohibitively expensive, you can say bye byeee to the possibility of saving or going on holiday and you'll be so fucked from your commute and work that on your days off.. You won't *want* to do anything, and even if you did they're your only chance to do your washing and take care of basic life admin shit so they just end up passing you by..

The xenophobia thing.. I mean, obviously I'm biased because I'm from Glasgow - but I've found Glasgow a more accepting place than I observed London to be, but I suppose it really depends where you live and who you associate with.

What I would say is.. definitely don't move to London in the hopes that it will improve your social life. It's such an exhausting city to survive in that it'll obliterate most any desire you have to attempt to make friends. At least in Glasgow, if you rent a flatshare, you can probably scrape by on 24-30hours a week of work at a job a 10 minute walk from home instead of having to hammer down 50 hours a week at a job that costs you an additional 10 hours a week to get to and from just to make ends meet.