Yes, this was someone saying they bought in b’ham and “only” needed 10k. Bristol and London are on a different scale from that.
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Replying to @sledgeamar1 @hisotalus and
TBH I find it hard to believe they bought a place actually in a UK city for so little, but whatever.
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Replying to @o_guest @sledgeamar1 and
... you can get a wee flat in a good area in Glasgow for 80k.
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Replying to @hisotalus @sledgeamar1 and
Fair, but my point was do PhD students really have 10% of that even?
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus and
I just don't think PhD students can save. Like I already said I am really surprised you could.
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus and
I was spending 70% of my PhD money on rent. And every month was right on 0 in my account. I knew if I bought anything extra I was playing with fire. I was on about 14k pre-tax in London. How could I save anything? I couldn't afford the deposit to rent a place, my parents did it.
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus and
There were times I couldn't afford to take the bus to uni and just got on anyway (if people recall the old bendy 29, you can imagine exactly how I did that). The reason was my uni was too slow in allowing me to buy discounted student fairs so I had to wait for them to process it.
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus and
Anyway, my point is it wouldn't matter what the place cost. If it was even 1k-2k, I was not able to buy it. I couldn't afford a laptop back then and was using one my parents bought me as an undergrad.
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This is why my first postdoc was so liberating... I finally got a salary that was 50% (less) spent on rent and not 70%. 

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