British people - Thinking about emigrating...

[Fidel_Castronaut]

If you're going to live in London, you better prepare yourself if you don't think you'll be earning too much money in the short term. The cost of living in London is ridiculous, and as a someone who was born there and visits family frequent, I'd never want to live there. If you're going to rent (inevitable), living in even the shittest part of London is likely to set you back around £1000 a month as a minimum.

There are plenty of other cities in the UK where you could move and live more cheaply albeit with perhaps fewer opportunities, but it depends entirely on what you want to do.

I'll say now that for the 'haves', the UK is a great place to live with very high standards of living and a vast array of services to spend your money on or invest it. For the havenots, it can be difficult. Like Portugal, youth unemployment is a problem here, and there is a growing sector of employment that offers relatively low wages with very little security (zero hour contracts as an example). Welfare services are also under strain in many areas, especially London boroughs, where cuts to the public sector have reduced staffing levels and growing populations have added burden, so increasingly the have nots are seeing it become more difficult to live.

Would you be looking to study here? Or get a job in law? If so its rewarding if you can get on the employment ladder, but again, competition is high.