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If you can buy a house, UK is cheaper and livelier that any other place on earth.

Excuse me? I am living in central UK, rent costs me 5000GBP/month, council tax is around 3000GBP/year, food is more than 2 times expensive than in Europe, transportation is expensive in general.

Then my status here can be anytime reverted by Home Office. I have pre-settlement status, but HO can anytime come, deny it and kick me out of the country.

And before you tell me to move, yes I am currently in phase of moving back to Europe, because for same salary I will have much lower expenses and only thing which was preventing me from moving for last 2 years was the Covid.

as someone who's interested in UK, am curious whether you are speaking from experience or is there anything to back up the statement?

From experience. I lived there a long time. If you are bored of London, you are bored of life as they say. Taxes are part of the price tag and no tipping, cheaper groceries add up to pretty nice savings every month.

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