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Britons 'need £13k' to earn a decent standard of living

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A single person living in Britain needs to earn at least £13400 a year before tax to afford a basic but acceptable standard of living..
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5 responses // Britons 'need £13k' to earn a decent standard of living

  • I'm amazed at that.. the average student lives on a lot less (not counting tuition) and still (I reckon) has a pretty decent standard of living - even the odd holiday. Besides which, most students can't even get that much to start with...
    purplefox
  • I'm not sure how true this is either. Single people don't have to spend money on anyone but themselves so their income is disposable once they're fed and watered.

    I suppose it all depends on what your definition of poverty is.
    phillyharper
  • I've been talking to a lot of friends recently (writers, filmmakers, musicians and would-be-academics - all independent and trying to get good stuff done while also earning *some* kind of living) and we've all agreed you need about a minimum £1000 per month to get by, at least in Brighton where we're from, if you share a rented house.

    But that's for the very basics - not especially brilliant food, not going out much, hardly any disposable income, certainly not travelling out of the city much, and being completely thrown when one of those unexpected costs comes up (like having a buy a new office chair when the old one collapses under the weight of your penniless but hard-working arse, for example).

    So I'd agree that £13k sounds like the right kind of figure. Students may well survive on less, but they have discounts on lots of everyday stuff that really makes a difference - oh, how I long for the days of my Young Person's Railcard!
    LindseyIndigo
  • Does this include beer allowance at the pub?
    MrBigShot21
  • So...Call me a Naiv student living off 6k a year.....that seems like a lot of money
    SilenceNoMore

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