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Originally Posted by muppet
The rent and cost of living hikes makes many of the premier cities unviable, even if they are best-placed to weather the storm. Average rent in London is now is about $600 a week, for shitty accom and likely far out. An average 30 applicants per room, and multiple times that for anything with the whiff of a better deal. I've found an amazing deal but a box room in the quietest, most boring part of the city (it doesn't even have pubs) and I have to share with an OAP landlord who has mental health issues, is a hoarder, very unhygienic and talks to himself.
A pint is now $8, a 'cheap eat' is $20 for a main. Commuting will cost $2000 as the cheapest option (annual pass for zones 1-3, which you'd need to be rich to live in anyway), $2,500 for one zone further (and there are 9 zones). Without a travelcard an upfront single journey within the same zone is $7, even for one stop, which technically makes it the world's most expensive form of transport mile-for-mile.
A box of cereal is now $5-7, spam is the cheapest meat and that's $5 a tin.
I imagine it a similar story for all large cities.
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If those are US dollar amounts, that's actually a bit below NYC for everything except public transit. A pint in NYC will typically cost about $9 most places except dive bars. A box of cereal was in the $5-7 range even pre-pandemic, but I haven't paid close attention to the prices for it as inflation kicked into high gear. Prices for fresh meat, fish, and poultry has exploded, but I don't think the increase has been as bad for dry goods. Public transit in NYC has been substantially cheaper than London for as long as I can remember, though. The cost per ride in NYC is still $2.75, and that will get you to virtually any point in the city. But the MTA has scaled back a bit on things like bonus rides for the bus and subway, and will soon completely phase out the flat fee monthly MetroCards.