Questions about moving to the UK (rent)

Cakeguts

Try the small towns around Manchester.

barbiedoll

One thing to note if you’re looking for a place in the UK. You mentioned “first floor” flats as being easy to rob. I’m not sure how it works in France but in UK, the first floor is up the stairs, the lower (street level) floor is known as the “ground floor”. And of course, we also have basement flats, which may be described as “lower ground floor”.

Good luck with your search!

Beetroot24

steampowered wrote: »

Just to clarify, prices in Singapore are in line with central London prices. You can easily drop £2,000 a month to rent a 1-bed flat in central Singapore.

Thailand on the other hand, would be much cheaper.


Yes, but Malaysia is also a poor country, so living there would come with challenges that you don't get in a modern, clean and wealthy place like Singapore. GDP per capita is $50,000 in Singapore (making it a richer country than the UK which has $40,000), while Malaysia is on about $10,000.

Yeah, but he just said he wanted to rent somewhere to sit in all day, and it was more in response to the Singapore suggestion, so I didn't think about the GDP per capita


But, you can rent a fully furnished, serviced apartment in KLCC for less than £300 a month, within a 30 minute walk of the Petronas Towers, where there is a decent supermarket (Cold Storage was the one we used). There is also an amazing food court there where you can get the best chicken and rice for a quid, so if I lived there I wouldn't do much shopping or cooking


I can't imagine getting a better quality of living in the UK on the same budget, not even in the north. I'm a proud northerner, but KL is cleaner than here.


However! Being a Muslim country, going there with the intention of making a living as a professional gambler, it's probably not the best option anyway

RagnarL

Thank you for the advice about the small towns around Manchester.

Yes sorry when I said first floor I actually meant ground floor. I saw these 2 a lot in studio descriptions but just stupidly assumed they meant the same thing. Thank you for the clarification it's very useful to know.

Barter

I'm surprised no-one has suggested a campervan/motorhome - plenty of quiet and peaceful sites with good Internet and easy to change location, including taking it back with you when you go back.

martindow

barbiedoll wrote: »

One thing to note if you’re looking for a place in the UK. You mentioned “first floor” flats as being easy to rob. I’m not sure how it works in France but in UK, the first floor is up the stairs, the lower (street level) floor is known as the “ground floor”. And of course, we also have basement flats, which may be described as “lower ground floor”.

Good luck with your search!

The ground floor in France is rez-de-chaussee and the first floor is premiere etage so the same numbering system as here. I've missed the accents as MSE doesn't like them!

RagnarL

For the campervan/motorhome I'm looking for an actual place and even if I didn't I don't even have a driver licence, but thank you for the suggestion.

Yes ground floor = rez-de-chaussee, no idea why I assumed it meant the same thing as first floor in the UK.

bouicca21

Probably because you've been watching/reading stuff from the US - Americans use first floor for ground floor/rez-de-chaussee, and very confusing it is too.