Why living in the UK has become Impossible

There’s a housing crisis, a cost-of-living crisis, and growing concerns over immigration. What’s happening to the UK?

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[mikementzer]

Telling how the UK is done has become youtube gold lately.

[leedswiggy]

£217 electric bill just for a month and there’s only me and the wife in a tiny house. Plus we are at work all day. I can’t sustain these prices it’s just theft.

[cyclometre]

I left the UK in 1970. Now the country I left is no longer recognizable. I feel sorry for the young people who are living in this country that I knew now, no longer exist. Goodbye, and good luck, to the country I knew, I would be horrified to try and live the place I once did.

[borgstod]

If you remove London, the average Brit would have the same demonstrable income as Alabama and Mississippi. We would be among the poorest States in the USA. That tells the grim story; as the video says, it won't get better soon.

[missm]

And that's why i'm planning to leave the UK this year. this country is a cesspool.

[Alaaason]

I was chatting with an old colleague when they mentioned how they no longer worried about where they lived to make a good income. Intrigued, I asked how they managed to create such flexibility.

[AndriyValdensius-wigw]

I saw a very average terrace house in a mediocre part of London for sale. It was a terrace, therefore linked to identical terraced houses, either side with a tiny little space in front. Not even a garden. There was only on street parking. The asking price was £ 1, 700, 000 !!!! It's beyond insane.

[jason]

We left the EU to control our immigration among other reasons, after the EU we seen the highest immigration levels on record, this is not by accident. Now the blame is on illegal immigration which is minuscule compared to legal migration. The tory government allowed these record levels, as inequality increase and the super rich is getting richer and everyone else poorer.
Having high immigration levels, makes the economy look as if it is still growing and allows the government to pin point the economic issues down to immigration, again which they have allowed.
There is only so much resource, the super rich is taking the vast amount of resources as they are the only ones capable of doing so, not people coming from other countries who are likely to have next to nothing, coming to the UK to try and better their life.

[ganrimmonim]

I'm 46. I moved from up north down to London around 14 years ago. My interest and involvement goes back way before i could vote. To the General Election in 1992. The decline of the UK in my lifetime has been remarkable. What's more, the rate at which it's happening is speeding up. Covid and, of course, Brexit has pushed us towards breaking point. It's interesting to get a front row seat for the self destruction of a country but not something you really want.

[marcinjacinski]

As of May 2024, the average debt per person in the UK was £34, 537, which is about 96% of the average annual income.

[cancel.lgbtq.]

Not just U.K. this is global problem. Unaffordable housing, rising cost of rent, food, utilities but your wage is not catching up with inflation. Winter is staying and there is no sign of summer....

[lanialost]

As a British Asian whose parents came to England in the early 1960s (mum to work as a doctor in the NHS, dad an engineer with British oil companies) it's stomach-turning seeing the riff-raff and rabble the UK has been allowing into the country almost non-stop since the early 1970s.
It took my parents 1 year to get approval to come to the UK and this was when India and Pakistan were still in the Commonwealth, and to get the UK back on its feet after the devastation of WW2. They brought us up to behave civilly in society and to respect the British culture. Although there was racism and violence towards Asians, there were many more Brits who were kind and welcoming.
Now, I'm mortified at how the UK is a cash-cow for all kinds of low-lives from Africa, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, eastern Europe, etc, who have made the UK look dirty and shabby, and have lifestyles and behaviour that is fuelling hatred and divisiveness.
My parents told me how orderly, clean and well-run Karachi (now Pakistan) and Bombay (now Mumbai, India) used to be during British colonial rule! Look at those cities now ... not everything was bad during the British rule, and they did use the money from their colonies for the benefit of the people they ruled -- unlike the Americans whose legacy is militarism and invasions and slaughter. Mum and dad got their medical and engineering education at universities the British had established in India.

[Sol-uiif]

What I don't understand is why UK is classed as a developed country when in fact, it's a developing one.

[alisonlee]

My 27 year old is leaving the UK to live in Japan. I support him, but will be devastated when he goes 🥺

[temujin]

Britain is not a rich country. When the contribution of London is excluded, the per capita income of the uk is lower than mississipi. The poorest state in the US.

[MJ_Brennan]

Super rich are to blame and the politicians who bow down to them.

[thomastully]

Left 30yrs ago to Denmark and never looked back, My own house, Car, good job and good savings, Sad to see what’s happened.

[tristinkirby]

It doesn't help that the labour government is more concerned about illegals than they are actual citizens.

[orlinchirinos]

The bad policies and greed from the corporate created this mess

[Azraelst]

I live in Britain, A little bit north of London. It is very expensive, I often spend £100 to £200 A week just to buy meat, greens, groceries, spices, sweets and chocolate and other home utensils. As you can imagine if I were to spend money on other things such as video games, entertainment, art, maintenance. I would be left poor and unable to buy food for myself and my family. Life is like A thin wire here and you don’t know when you will become starving and homeless.