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I was anticipating to spend about 1/3 of my wages of rent. I now seem to be coming to the conclusion that should I want to not live in a gang-infested shit hole, I may have to spend close to 1/2 of my wages on rent. Needless to say, I was less than impressed by this revelation.

What proportion* of your monthly earnings do you spend on rent?

Precise figures are not necessary, nor are they impressive. They'll probably just make you look like a* cock.

*small

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45%

Then again, I have a rather simple lifestyle; I rarely go out, I don't drink and my idea of really throwing away money is buying too much chocolate.

It's also because I'm a poor student who's too lazy to get a job.

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1) That's a percentage, not a proportion. Although that is acceptable, and actually preferable.

2) Where do you live?

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I live in the Netherlands.

Percentages are proportions.

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Well, roughly half on average. The thing is, being a student my incomes fluctuate a lot (more during the summer, less during the rest of the year).

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about half

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around here you can get a small terraced house for approx. £350 a month rent, although that is climbing as more people are starting to rent houses rather than buy

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Hmm. I suppose my %age income spent on rent is negative.

\o/

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0%

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Around about 40%

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About 25%, although i live with my mate, so if he didn't live here it would be closer to 50% mark :(

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40%, rising to 50% when you include council tax (which you probably should, since it'll likely be higher the more rent you're paying). That was before my girlfriend moved in though, so it's down to about 25% until she leaves again.

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I don't pasy a pennt. I blow all my money as soon as it comes in on gay porn and booze.

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Isn't that how you make your money?

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Around 28% of my income is allocated as rent expenses. And I am lucky to rent cheap!
For most of my (studying) friends it is about 40-ish% they spend on rent.

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about 60% goes on household bills and mortgage payment.

Then car insurance and other bits out of whats left...

then food etc, doesnt leave much :(

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25% or so, and i piss away the rest like no tomorrow, i really need to be wiser with money.

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i share a 3 bedroom semi detached house with 2 friends and in total i spent a little bit over a quarter of my wages on living there (rent, council tax, water rates, elecricity) i obviously haven't included food in this

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too much (NYC)

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almost exactly a third (after tax etc)
I'm living on my own in a not too shabby area as well.

It's what happens when you live in London unfortunately.

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How violent exactly it is a "gang-infested shit hole" in the Uk? murder rate like 15/100k?


This would be the rate of a "great place to live" here in brazil, and im alive and well :D

Anyways, i saw this guy getting shot dead the other day... drug trafficking issues apparently.

Not so bad to live in a 40/100k murder rate country actually. Most people who die are criminals to begin with. Dunno if it is the same over there

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well here mostly what happens is that innocent people get shot by the armed morons (although to be fair it is not exactly clear who said they could have guns, but, hey 'they've got em') who are protecting us (that is a quote) from something ... we're not sure what exactly ... but they've told our home secretary that what ever it is (apparently she isn't allowed to know for security reasons) they definitely protect us from it. Well in practice they are actually the only guns you see in Britain. But of course that is the way isn't it? I mean "there's no smoke without fire" and the flabby, corrupt, institutionally racist, piss ignorant, thick as two short planks, gits who join the force wouldn't have guns unless everyone did now would they? it's not like they pointlessly carry a large semi automatic rifle around a shopping precinct just because they found gcses a bit challenging now is it???

anyhoo that's how we see most brazillian people shot dead in public.

I suppose it's a bit different over here.

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ummm 0% for me at mo since i still live in parents house (which they no longer live in) but my gf pays about 25% of her earnings to live here but most of that is maintenance (utilities/internet etc) rather than rent.