Comparion of living expenses London Vs Manchester

Hi Forum,

Can experienced members please comment on the comparison of average monthly living expenditure for a couple between London and Manchester?

Looking forward to your expert opinion.

Pardon if this has been asked before.

Thanks

InUkOnHsmp wrote:Hi Forum,

Can experienced members please comment on the comparison of average monthly living expenditure for a couple between London and Manchester?

Looking forward to your expert opinion.

Pardon if this has been asked before.

Thanks

Manchester=expensive
London=f****ing expensive

Hi Forum,

Senior members can you please respond to the query?

Thirdwave, thanks for your response but something more quantitative will help.

Regards

InUkOnHsmp wrote:Hi Forum,

Senior members can you please respond to the query?

Thirdwave, thanks for your response but something more quantitative will help.

Regards

Accomodation; Both can be as cheap as you like, if you can stomach living in really bad areas with rampant guncrime and druggies on the street corner. Opposite end m/cr can get expensive bit fo r the same in London, forget it, you can't afford it, none of us plebs can.

Everything else is cheaper in m/cr I'd say, plus commuting is a bit more pleasant, rolling hills are only 15 miles away and housing cheaper.

I don't particularly like either place tho.

InUkOnHsmp wrote:Hi Forum,

Senior members can you please respond to the query?

Thirdwave, thanks for your response but something more quantitative will help.

Regards

Unless you can find someone who has lived in both cities in recent times, I would agree with Thirdwave's comparisons! It's hard even to compare London on its own, but trying to compare London to another city in the UK is quite complex. For example, in London, accommodation can be as cheap as £70/week and as expensive as £200/week...so what do you want?

First narrow down your choice of what type of information you want.

The way I see is,

If you want to enjoy your life, you got active night life and don't care about how much you save, then just Live in London.

If money saving is your first priority then stay out of london.

I have lived 4.5 years in UK but working outside UK and desperately want to move to London and DONT care about cost of living.

Every city/town has some cheap areas and expensive areas.

Everything has a price and as an individual you have to come up with your own priorities. That will help you to evaluate all the options.

To me; Living habit is the style you are living since born. It is often noticed that the immigrant live modrate life to start with.

If you like to maintain average life, you can live in one room flate with DD and Spam around zone six in Lodnon at about 800GBP, where as same living you can maintain in MC at 400 to 600 GBP.

I live in Doncaster at 400 GBP flate near city center.

I am sure this will give you hint of living, but it depand what style you want to adopt?

Bye

I have to disagree with people who say that London is more expensive than Manchester. It's really not that simple. In both cities you can find flat-share accommodation for £50 a week in some of the less nice areas, and in both you can rent a whole nice flat in a good area for around £250 a week. (Ok so London has some astronomically expensive areas that only oil-rich sheiks can afford, but that's irrelevant, noone real lives there).

Food is a bit cheaper in Manchester (but not much). Travel is actually cheaper in London because public transport (which you will use in London) costs less than a car (which you will need in Manchester).

So I'd argue that you'd be better off in London... particularly when you remember that salaries are significantly higher in some sectors.

Dont worry just visit the following web site and search accomodation between Manch and lond. You will get better idea of rates and areas. Food is moreless same just dine out cost you diffrently.

I agree transportation is better in London, I would say it is better then any modren city.

http://www.findaproperty.com