Thread:User talk:Reckless Noise Symphony/Entitlement/reply (14)

Which is why I quite like things like The Big Mac Index as a measure, it sort of takes that into account. But it really takes the biscuit when you need different indexes for different parts of the same country. The most expensive pint you can get here is around the same price as the cheapest pint you can drink in Cambridge, for instance.

Although I couldn't tell you the latest figures, going to university in London entitled you to a student loan that was something like 20-25% larger than elsewhere in the country. Still, I don't think the living expenses of the city are high enough to reduce the equivalent of $100k to "chump-change", even given the absolute insanity of housing costs. Perhaps if you want to send three kids to private school, own two fancy cars and a big house it's "chump-change" but that's not quite the same as the base living expenses.