Can anybody help me by explaining what is an average living cost in UK - Birmingham ?

aftab.ulha

I'm getting a job of 40 K / Year in UK â Birmingham, I really need to know ground figures of living costs there, I mean what is an average or minimum family house rent, how much does it need to get driving license if u even have previous, what about taxation, food & home expenditures, or any other expenses which are necessary to know. I would be thankful.

Answer
40K what? £ or $?

£40,000 is a comfortable income. For a single person, even a couple but you may find you need to be frugal if you have children and both couples want to run a car and socialise.

Houses
www.rightmove.co.uk
Is the best site it takes properties from almost every UK estate agent.


Shopping for food and other basics
www.asda.com

Roughly. Yearly

House Rent £6000-£12000 depends what you want and where.
Council Tax £1000-£2000
Electric/Gas £2000+
Water/Sewerage £500.
Home insurance £250

You can drive for 1 year on a foreign license but you will then need to take a new test which you should budget up to £1,000 to get lessons take the written and road tests and license.

You can earn £6000 a year tax free after that it is 20% but you will also have to pay for NHI that will put up deductions to about one third of your salary altogether.

If you have kids you could get family tax credits and pay less.
You should be able to claim a family allowance too

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/TaxCreditsandChildBenefit/Childbenefits/index.htm

Claim for everything as soon as you can, if you are entitled you will get paid back to the date of the claim.

Food costs will depend on how many of you there are and what you want to eat.

A small chicken costs from £2.50
Loaf of Bread .70p more or less
Pint of Milk .50p
Bottle of wine from £3.00
half a pound of butter from .85p
5lb potatoes about a £1
Eggs from 10p each
Cooking oil £1.10

You can get other prices from

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Home.htm?sRefURL=http%3A//uk.search.yahoo.com/search%3Fp%3DArgos

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/

Google :
'DFS'
'Comet'

For more prices/On line catalogues.

Cost of renting in the UK?

Paul J

Hi there,

I'm sure this has been asked a few times but since every is constantly changing in the UK pricing wise was hoping someone could help me come up with an approx cost per month for living by myself.

Okay, I'm currently making £1200 pm after the damn taxman has finished with me, I'm looking at renting my own place. The places I have seen so far which I like come in at around £400-450pm, what other additional costs should I expect to pay on top of that? My current out goings at the moment are £45 a month (car insurance + tax) and food/drink and petrol. My issue is i have no idea how much council tax would be never mind utilities, I don't use a great deal of electric or anything of that nature really, I seriously just shower once a day and use my PC for work stuff and gaming so how much am I looking at paying monthly with the rent + what I mentioned above been as "standard"?

Thanks in advance for any advise!
ps. go into as much detail as possible please I don't want to be kidding myself :P

Ow btw I'm looking at Leeds if thats important :D

Answer
In the city it cost more, check with some of your co-workers on that council tax.

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