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Re:London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Pas... by okeuro49 on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:40AM (#37173788)
> Aren’t the salaries higher as well?

The killer is house and rental costs.

If you want a flat in central London you'll be paying half (or more?) of your £68k salary on rent after tax. In Canary Wharf you might not even be able to afford rent.

A £68k salary won't bring you close to being able to afford a mortgage, unless you have capital from other means e.g. inheretence.

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Re:London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Pas... by gadders on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:49AM (#37173859)
To be fair, though, that is a prime-ish location, not much different to trying to live in Manhattan or the nice bits of SF.
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Re:London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Pas... by bombcar on Friday August 18, 2023 @07:21AM (#37174171)
Big cities are big enough that you can have vastly different ideas of what it means to "live in New York" or "live in LA" - I had friends in both who would say they lived there, but were a minimum an hour from the central business district.
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Re:London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Pas... by gadders on Friday August 18, 2023 @08:21AM (#37174652)
Yeah. You get people who live in Bromley who say they live in London, just because it's a London Borough.
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Re:London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Pas... by bombcar on Friday August 18, 2023 @08:42AM (#37174858)
I gave up answering where I lived years ago, now I just reply with the name of the nearest international airport; people are much more likely to know where LA is than any of the hundreds of smaller cities in and around its metro area.
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Re:London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Pas... by pm215 on Friday August 18, 2023 @11:16AM (#37176844)
As somebody who lives well outside London, my mental model of "in London" is "within the M25" :-)
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Re:London Then and Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow over Pas... by jwmoz on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:16AM (#37223037)
Real Londoners use this.
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