England is so expensive.

[Mooshamoo]

I just flew over from Ireland to England for a couple of days.

Jesus everything is so expensive in England! I felt like I burned through money.

I thought Ireland was pricy enough, but England is way more expensive.

I've come home, looked at my bank account and cried a little haha.

For example I got a train in Ireland before I left. It was 14 euro.

I got a train for the same distance in England. It was 40 pounds. It didn't even travel that far. And the guy in the train station told me that this was the best deal ticket "it was off peak"

Everything in the UK supermarket was so pricy.

I was just a little shocked. How are you all coping with it

We handed a crumbling train system over to private companies. They’ve been using the fair payers as whipping boys ever since.

Welcome to Brexit. I'm in France and now good is cheaper here than at home.

*food.

It's £170 to go from central Scotland to London, absolutely ridiculous prices. I have used the train in France, Spain and Italy and prices are much more reasonable.

I bought two drinks in a big-standard boozer in central London the other day. Not a touristy one, not a fancy bar but an old-school pub in the legal district, full of solicitors and barristers but not eg bankers. I got a small glass of wine and a single gin and tonic and it was TWENTY FIVE ENGLISH POUNDS. Thirteen for the G&T and twelve for the wine. I almost fell down dead. England is super super expensive right now.

I went to Dublin last weekend and found it extremely expensive and I'm from London 🤷‍♀️

Really? A burger and chips in a restaurant where I am costs about £13. I’m amazed that you’ve never seen a burger and chips for that kind of price.

Ireland is the EU tax haven for tech companies and the price rises are to come along soon as they are wanting to clamp down, the same issue that is had across the west with young people not being able to jump on the housing ladder is just as much relevant in Ireland as it is in the UK, there is a reason why France is rioting, Ireland has recent protests around immigration, and the Finns was a percentage point in gaining seats in the famed nordic area, it isn't because the Uk is some unique backwater.

Picking and chosing price points is never going to be a win and is childish

I was in Switzerland last week. That was eyewateringly expensive. £7 for a coffee.

Here you go. This is an independent near me. Nice, but not super fancy. Let your mind boggle away.

I got a fright. I burned through a lot of money in England. I feel like you don't get much for your pound.

You can definitely get main courses in the restaurants near me in Ireland for 12 euro.

Every main course that I saw in the restaurants in England were going from 15 pounds up to 22 pounds.

This is definitely not an Ireland is better than England thread. Believe me, I know ireland has millions of other problems.

It's just a reflection. And has definitely made me feel a bit sad thinking I can't afford to go to England for a weekend anymore.

I absolutely burned through way too much money while I was there. And I didn't even buy anything. It went in trains /basic stuff etc. I'm still getting a shock looking at my online bank

A burger in a pub is about £14 round here, another £4 for the chips.

I am just back also & was shocked. A takeaway coffee example is definitely dearer in England. Parking was cheaper. Meals dearer for the quality- so I agree with the OP

I own a house in barcelona suburbs with a friend, and visit quite often, supermarket prices are slightly cheaper than uk, electric is dearer, but council tax is very low, we pay only about 400 a year, nice new sports centres, libraries, clinics and hospitals, we can shop cheaper at the markets, clothes are a lot more expensive than uk and many household appliances. There is no poundland or B and M type stores.

I agree, it's really expensive now in England, where I live on the continent, housing is much cheaper and there is stuff and it works. We have open libraries and things, I can't get over how poor things like library provision are in the UK.

Yes takeaway coffee at the cafes I went to in England , were more expensive,than the ones I buy in Ireland.

Medium cappucino in Ireland that I get is 3.20 euro
medium cappucino in England at the places I went to was 4.50 pounds

What you are wanting is to moan about the exchange rate, this thread could take multiple scenarios, a brit complaining that price of food in spain is more costly would confer different responses to someone complain about different prices in a nordic country.

It is all relative, go to any nordic country where you still pay euro and you will see a massive hike in prices, even just take a jump over to france or germany and see how much your euro stretches and then come back and try and indicate that it is a UK issue, ignoring the fact the obvious closer to home issue you are currently facing...

That’s funny, all the other threads/posts suggest that food is far more expensive in Ireland, and the housing market is even worse than England…

I think that food is definitely more expensive in England.

Housing market is definitely bad in Ireland. I agree.

@CoComtesseDeSpair That is incredibly expensive! I live near Malahide and often eat / drink there, have never paid that. Were they all premium gins or something of that nature? DH and I go to Fowlers regularly, it's usually around €16/€17 for a pint for him and a G & T for me.

Are you thinking of London prices? I live in Northern Ireland and find England cheap in comparison, especially to eat out or a takeaway. My works (restaurant on the Antrim coast road) charges £17 for a burger and chips or £18 for scampi and chips, where I could get that for £10 or less in the North of England where I'm originally from.
My local pub in N.I charges £4.40 for a pint and £2.20 for a small bottle of coke/soft drink plus £3.60 for a vodka or gin.
But saying that Belfast city centre is a lot more expensive.

I'm half English , half Irish. So I definitely don't have anything to gain from saying either country is better than the other.

I could write a list as long as your arm about the problems in Ireland.

However, I'm still shocked about the price of things in England.

15 pounds for a burger. And chips were not included in that!

40 pounds for a train going a tiny distance.

She is not talking about Australia or New Zealand, but United Kingdom.

Hundreds of threads on this site complaining about how expensive everything is, but when someone from a different country says it’s expensive everyone gets weirdly defensive!

Yes, England is ridiculously expensive at the moment. The majority of people are either struggling or cutting back. Food prices are high, drinks are high, transport is high, housing is high. The price increases are really notable - the milk my kids like was 85p/L a year ago, it’s now £1.20/L.