Posted on 12/18/2024 8:20:19 AM PST by sopo
The average cost of living in the United Kingdom ($2292) is 7% less expensive than in the United States ($2454). the United Kingdom ranked 13th vs 10th for the United States in the list of the most expensive countries in the world.
The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.5 months in the United Kingdom compared to 1.9 months in the United States. Ranked 13th and 20th best countries to live in the world.
This is perhaps more to the point of affordability than the raw cost of necessities. The difference is probably in the comparisons of taxes and wages.
even Sweden is less expensive ( by a lot) with a higher “personal freedom index”
Things that are cheaper in the U.S.:
a gun
a Ford
They don’t live like we do.
you need a biscuit every day, a gun once in a while, but you really need it
$52,423 per capita in the UK. While in this country, it’s $82,715.
In the U.K., a biscuit is a cookie/crisp snack, not a fluffy buttery bread like in the U.S. Also in the U.K., a fag is slang for a cigarette. LOL
You win!
The average US salary is $50k or less, that’s who is buying the groceries.
The real killer to me is life expectancy. WE hardly even rank compared to the rest of the modern world. Best health care system in the world? Hardly. Most expensive? Probably.
According to recent data, the median household income in the United States is around $80,610, which means that roughly 50% of Americans earn less than this amount and 50% earn more than this amount
The problem trying to compare the US to the UK is size. The UK is the size of Minnesota
So what is barely livable income in Ma or NY or CA is vast wealth in MS, WV or NM
no doubt, but Trump just won an election in which price of groceries was a considerable factor.
It sure as hell wasn't like that when I was stationed there in the 1970's, admittedly, a long time ago. In those days, what you could buy with $100 in the U.S. would cost you an estimated $135 (in pounds) in the UK.
Biden inflated the money because he spent like a drunken sailor... lots of loot for his croniew and favored ‘matha earf’ stuff.
Things that are cheaper in the U.S.
Electricity.
Gasoline (petrol).
Both of these are VERY expensive in the UK.
That’s the sort of thing I remember from those times, though only hearsay in my case.
True. Typical family lives in a detached (what we’d call a duplex) with no garage, maybe off-street parking for one car, and a small garden. (Separated by that all-important fence!) Smaller rooms but better construction, very few frame houses - concrete with slate roofs so they last longer with fewer repairs.
Unless you’re poor and live in the council house ;-)
People I know who had been receiving <$40// month in food stamps prior to the pandemic suddenly got $200/ month..Then a year ago reverted to the previous. That does have to be a major factor in the recent price rise.
I hear they have free health care in the UK which was once called socialized medicine.
All I can say is that with what passes for health care in the UK, it is a good thing they do not have the right to bear arms.
There would be a lot of dead DHS bureaucrats with holes in their backs because 40 per cent of young folk in America believe it is acceptable to have open season on killing healthcare executives and clearly those in the UK have greater grievances when it comes to health care.
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