Scared to go back to England

[Valleygirlaccent]

But i’m desperate to.

Currently live abroad, beautiful place but ready ro return to family. I keep seeing posts/videos about how hard it is now and how you can’t survive on £35 k per year (we’d be on around about this initially)
I’m going back to a ‘Naice area’ and although have a lovely lifestyle where we are, we’ve often lived month to month as wages are low, so I’ve learnt to cut my cloth accordingly.

Is it really that bad?

Well we have no idea if you will be able to live a nice life on £35k as no other info.

Is that to support one adult? Or two? Children? Childcare needs?

Rent or mortgage? Where? How big?

I live in a naice area in SE, fifty miles from London. A decent one bed flat here costs about £250k or £1400 a month rent.

@Valleygirlaccent, if you are moving back to Wales then I’d say go for it without a doubt!
But I’d say no to London on that salary, city prices are just not so doable.

Depends. Where are you now and where will you be going? Are you moving like for like? (IE small town to small town?)

I'm a born and bred Londoner and whilst I love the city and am raising my DC here (and couldn't really imagine raising them anywhere else) it would be a huge culture shock for someone who isn't used to big city life to move here.

I'd have to do some serious, serious soul searching about moving back to England if I wasn't currently living here.

The equivalent of a 35k salary has never been comfortable to support a whole family on.

I moved back here a couple years ago and love it.

In fairness, I do think we just drew bad luck weather wise in the 2 weeks that we went! We've been previously and it's been lovely. We still had a lovely time!

We are on approx £40k between us, before I returned to work part time we were in £29k and survived with no benefits apart from child benefit. Three young children and live in South east. We are fine. We have holidays in UK. We have treats.