Is Life in London ACTUALLY good? 🧐 | Talking to Expats & Locals about Life in London
With the cost of living crisis going up in the UK, we continue to hear how much of a mistake it is to move to London nowdays. However, the UK is receiving the lagest amount of expats it ever has - So there must also be good things that are attracting expats to move!
We decided to take this question to the streets, and let Expats and Londoners answer this question - Is life in London good? What are the things they struggled with when they moved? And what advice do they have for people moving?
And yes, we asked the juicy questions too - Watch to see Londoners take on the weather and food in this country!
Contents of this video:
00:00 - Intro
01:34 - Rate the London weather from 1 to 10
02:22 - Do you like British Food?
03:58 - How is your experience living in London?
05:01 - What do you miss from your home country?
05:25 - What’s your advice for people moving to London?
08:12 - Our Tips for Moving to the UK
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thank u sm for the video and the guide on your website !! thats very kind
I been 30 years in UK and I don't have friends really ..aqueintances yes loads ..but true real close friends no
@illaoit8147
Ай бұрын
Hiii . I'm moving to the UK soon. Do you want to be friends? I'm 25
@torangclayruz4098
19 күн бұрын
Tell me 1 reason what makes you haven't close friends in UK. Sorry, it's not so hard to have friends in South East Asia.
@manopriyaa
4 күн бұрын
Trust me, you wont find true, good friends in adults life anywhere in the world. People just act... or just one or two are lucky and happy with whoever they are with.
@user-mc1yd9bp5x
3 күн бұрын
Brotian is c o l d blooded
I'm London born and bred , grew up in bermondesy....me, my mum, my brother, basically all native Londoners have been pushed out...iv met more Londoners up north then I have in London..
@addywhitby7654
10 күн бұрын
Wow
Native Brit here who was born in London but has since been living in both West Yorkshire and Somerset. I would love to be able to move back to the capital, but it is just too damn expensive!
@matutto
Жыл бұрын
We totally get it! 🙈
@EphemeralProductions
6 ай бұрын
I’m a lifetime American and I’ve always been put off of moving there for that same reason. lol just found a website that says that Bexley is the cheapest place living wise in London! 915 pounds per month for a 1 bedroom flat. :D. That seems cheap enough that if I had enough income over there I would entertain it! :)
@rjflores438
5 ай бұрын
Agreed mate, I also think that London has become an even more cut throat city in terms of the wealth and class divides, and your quality of life diminishes because many people simply dont have the excess funds to actually maintain and keep up with the lifestyle they envisige living before they arrive there, unless they are earning around 50k plus per year.
@robertwilson3866
4 ай бұрын
I live 20 mins by train from London and only go there about 3-4 times a year. It's nice to visit but it's tiring to get around and ridiculously expensive. I never date anyone who lives in London for that reason. European cities are much cheaper, less intense and the shops don't close stupidly early.
@ibphysicsclassroom
3 ай бұрын
Coming as a teacher to the Uk can I please be able to find a 1 bedroom for £400 per month in Leeds or castleford. And please is it a good place to live
part time jobs in London would help ex Londoners like me to stay longer. I was a student years ago. There is still so many charming streets to explore. I go there every 2 yrs for memories, but the accomodation costs is killing. Food is affordable. Transport costs can be cut down by walking a lot.. looking forward to you interviewing random people on how they survive by part time jobs . is there such jobs for temps.. Tq. Love your short vid😊
Fellow Londoner here! Loved this video. Keep it up!
@NALBATRAVELS
10 ай бұрын
Thanks so much!! 🫶
I love it guys!
Beautiful sharing! 😍👌
Amazing video happy to be a part of it as well!!😍
@NALBATRAVELS
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for participating!! 😌🙌
Nice channels guys, first video of your channel I've watched and I enjoyed watching it 😀👍
@NALBATRAVELS
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching! Hope you enjoy our other videos 😄
Great video! I miss London! Lived there many years and went to uni there. Definitely a great vibe! The girl in the tie dye shirt with denim jacket sounds like she’s from Finland 🇫🇮 Lovely girl!
London is SO beautiful 🤩
great video on the perspectives of locals and expats!
@NALBATRAVELS
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 😌
@nicobernada1775
10 ай бұрын
I live in Spain and the weather is very hot. Right now, in Spain is summer, and the temperature is 45º C 💀
It's way too expensive to live here. Basically impossible... My BIGGEST regeret was saving 100k and wasting 70% of it on a deposit on a house
I truly like this video
Great Videos!
My dream since a little girl has been moving to London. I give credit to Mr Bean , the tv show 😅😅. The only thing that scares me is the high cost of living. I might be going as a student for a year but I would love to have more time to experience the culture and the theatre scene! I am an actor and London just sound like the ideal place for it !
@Claireradusha99
8 ай бұрын
It’s more expensive than you think
@heatherboardman7004
8 ай бұрын
You are living in dream land. London is more expensive than you think especially rents. It is dirty, grey and overcrowding
@london8701
7 ай бұрын
@@heatherboardman7004but there's loads to do. compared to other parts of england there's so much to do and it's just brilliant for advancing a career
@heatherboardman7004
7 ай бұрын
@@london8701 nicer cities in the UK than London. Do you research. Places like Edinburgh, York, Newcastle. Plus a lot safer outside London which has a lot of crime. It is not called stab city for nothing.
@AngloSaxonVanguard
3 ай бұрын
Ignore the negativity from some of these miserable people. London is a great city with lots to do and plenty of opportunities. London doesn't need these kind of negative people, they infect everyone
Thank you for sharing the video. I will be moving to work in london in december. Not sure if thats a good time with christmas holidays and all.
@NALBATRAVELS
9 ай бұрын
Thank you! And there's never a bad time to move to London - the only thing we would advise on, is taking a coat! And of course, if you need help settling in, you can always reach out :)
Fantastic video!
I love Lon🇬🇧don ❤
I really love London, but right now it's too hard and expensive to live there...
My question to all of this is simple…. If one of disabled or in a wheelchair, as myself…. Is living in London vs. u.s.a. worth the work to do so. I’ve always wanted to live there. Clearly, after my accident, that has out a damper on many of things. Including going to places I’d like to travel or live. To anybody who lives with and works through a disability and resides in the u.k. Any information would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance for any tips pr pointers.
@prestonr6348
4 ай бұрын
The tube highlights certain stations where you have step free access from the train to the street. If you need assistance, you can always ask help from the staff, I've seen them wheeling people around
It is not as expensive as Switzerland.
I have been in London for 8 years, I love the high population of the London but not the weather. I would love to move to Spain next.
@NALBATRAVELS
Жыл бұрын
That’s a fair point! Spain’s weather is great ☀️ I guess we’ll have to make some videos about moving to Spain 😋
Jellied eels and tadpole soup!!
London is wonderful but I've found it far busier than ever before. I'm in my 50s and would recommend avoiding London in August. Some areas are so busy, that it becomes hellish.
@NALBATRAVELS
5 ай бұрын
London in summer and around Christmas time can get SUPER busy!
Shorts version of this video on our account!
Coffee milk shake 👍 ❤❤
London, ENGLAND, UK
Food is still incredibly cheap compared to N America.
@NALBATRAVELS
Жыл бұрын
That’s a fair point 🙈
I wish to go to Leicester
7:50 LOL
been in London for 6 years now and def. the rent prices su...... it is a huge turn-off
@dorap6921
Жыл бұрын
How much is it?
@2cleverson2
Жыл бұрын
@@dorap6921 it depends a lot... what zone, if you want to share with other people
Linda McCartneys tofu treats?? lol
There is no room here for more people!
Plenty international food shops ..cook at home
@user-mx1gh3mn3w
2 ай бұрын
Yeah it's cheaper.
I'm coming next year though, I will definitely need some help
@NALBATRAVELS
11 ай бұрын
You know what to do! Check out matutto.com :)
I adore London and I have decided to move there. I've spent 10 days in October last year in London, in cheap hostel, with lots of different people (which I like) and I could tell you from my experience... This City loves me as much as I love this City. I never felt stronger relationship between me and London to anyone or anything in my whole life and I've been in so many countries. I feel London as my home, my eternal love the way I couldn't say for any person in my life.
@user-my4ro2mc5e
4 ай бұрын
That’s ironic because my experience was the total opposite. I was beaten up, bullied at work, fell into debt because of the high living costs, everybody looked down at my engineering profession and I was even shouted at. I vow never to live in London ever again. Now I have PTSD from my horrible experience.
@kc17131
28 күн бұрын
Same here! Looked down at, bullied at work and by my ex partner family. Never again 🙅♀️
I like Ur Videos i am interested to move to London as I educated in British school since I was a child London was my dream place, I soon to graduate from University, I watch ur videos bcs after my graduation I decided to move to London
@NALBATRAVELS
7 ай бұрын
Glad to hear that!! Make sure to sign up to matutto.com/ it will help you access lots of info and tips for moving to London 😊 Good luck with your move!
A local in London? 😂😂😂
The girl from H3H3
what type of coffeeshops does he mean?
@NALBATRAVELS
10 ай бұрын
I don't know but if I could guess... 😂
British food consists of more than fish n chips. How about Fish Pie? Steak n Kidney Pie, Shepherd’s Pie, Beef n Oyster Pie? Oh, I don’t those so they must be bad. How about a nice trout or smoked salmon? Go to a decent restaurant and you’ll find plenty of delicious British food.
Is London safe enough for student? How about crime in London? Tq
@NALBATRAVELS
11 ай бұрын
From our experience London is safer than what you see on the news. We’ve never had any problems. But as with any other city, it’s always important to be careful 😊
kings college london my dream
What costs are there to live on London besides your visa, rent, food, and travel?
@NALBATRAVELS
2 ай бұрын
Depends on your lifestyle. You should account for a SIM Card with data, your gym subscription (if you go), entertainment (if you like going out for food, drinks, etc.). So it really depends on what you like doing
@kc17131
28 күн бұрын
A specialist doctor visit costs £180-£600
It was always expensive in London.
Prolonged food rationing after Second World War and Industrial Revolution “lifestyle” before that might have contributed to relatively bland British food, not to mention the climate.
If you want an example of uk people min 8:08 . People are always in the rush, "Hey how are you" "you r right...."fssss gone 🚀
Weather 5/10 Food 6/10 Advice coming to london.. don't forget to bring your credit card.
London is an amazing city still but is sadly being ruined. It’s such a shame that such a beautiful city is declining so rapidly. 😢
I doubt these people have really tried real British food.
its very expensive, hard to Mae friends and hard to meet partners
To have a good life in London you need to earn good money. As a south european, I find life in London boring, there is no soul in the city and people are cold.
@xanderpills
4 ай бұрын
It's probably the amount of inhabitants. There are no such metropolitan, gigacities in south, something like Lisbon, Portugal is veeeery chill in fact. London had like close to ten million people. That's whole Portugal or Greece, or one fifth of Spain or Italy. That's just helluva lot of people.
@stephaniedavinson6762
3 ай бұрын
The real English Londoners are being pushed out and treated with no respect in our Beautiful Christian country.
@xanderpills
3 ай бұрын
@@stephaniedavinson6762 How come "pushed out"? Sounds a bit conservative to my ears. While these sort of views are pretty common all around the world, isn't England and especially London pretty much a melting pot for all cultures possible? P.S. : Had to look up some data about the subject, it looks as if Christianity is simply on a lowering trend for the last twenty or so years. Not necessarily only a multicultural effect there (as comparing the results of this survey didn't show anything that significant regarding non-Christian religions between 2011 and 2021). www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/religion/bulletins/religionenglandandwales/census2021#religion-in-england-and-wales
@kc17131
28 күн бұрын
Mid-south European. Yes agree with you. The only attraction is that it’s a big city, diverse, quite rich and English is spoken, which unfortunately is the language of the world
@ashley-fk6dp
14 күн бұрын
why unfortunately ?😊@@kc17131
Is there anyone here living in London ? i might go to London this coming summer if i managed to receive the visa and i might need someone to accommodate me for at least 2 weeks. I will be ready to send all informations about me including my passport number and identity card and fullfill whatever required from me to get accepted for temporary accomodation
I cannot put thumbs down in the ratings so here it goes: 👎 Not because it's poorly made video but because of the content: we used to live in London 7 years ago and was genuinely interested in hearing about cost of things, a dinner out, monthly bills, etc some details on cold hard POUNDS, etc, yet was too generic, if i can give you a suggestion, ask people specific useful things for every day living, council tax? How much is it gone up? Tube? how much is a zone 1-2 zone 1-4 cost? Etc, how much money you need at minimum for a 1 bed for a couple, etc - make it useful :)
Not such living crisis for the elite and politicians
Move up North, It's cheaper to rent houses and apartments compare to liiving in London
Bipolar weather uk
“Don’t be afraid to ask for help.” Translation: Her parents pay for her bills.
One ☝🏻 day inshallah 😘
@toolate9494
5 ай бұрын
No 👎
Why is London SO BLOODY EXPENSIVE??? 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 😡😡
London is literally the worst city in the entire world. I was beaten up, people shouted at me, everybody looked down at my engineering degree, I was bullied constantly at work, got a lot of racist abuse, fell into a huge debt due to the high living costs, I vow never to live in London ever again.
Life in central London is great of you make 100k GBP after tax a year or more. Otherwise you'll feel pretty miserable and poor.
@NALBATRAVELS
4 ай бұрын
It the last couple of years, it's become really expensive to live in London unfortunately
Jew Yehudim In the lands of Tarshish
London is chicken box 📦 don’t like trying to move somewhere else
Are there any BRITISH people in London anymore? Everyone in this video is a foreigner.
@rogerc8960
7 ай бұрын
not many
@karag4487
6 ай бұрын
Well, they interviewed people in front of a university you ignorant
@ryerye6587
3 ай бұрын
You talk like that is a bad thing. Anyways, if you wanted to keep your precious London to yourself, you shouldn't have stolen all the riches from other countries and brought it there
@JadeOthen
Ай бұрын
@@ryerye6587 I don't think he / she actually did that personally.
@ryerye6587
28 күн бұрын
@@JadeOthen he did not personally. And he also do not own London. So he should stop acting like he has more right being there than anyone else.
No care about cockney culture or heritage.
Expensive, people impolite, poor standards. Disaster!
Can I say sucks in the video ..this is what's going wrong with the world ...politicly correctness
Cringe
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