Is the living environment in Britain good?

The real standard of living of the British.

I once saw a man write about real life in Japan. I referred to the British and found that Japan and Britain are the same in many social systems and consumption concepts. Here I want to introduce you to the real level of the British people. After working for one and a half years, the income is slightly higher than the British average among peers.

Britain is an old capitalist country, and the British have a lot in common with the real life of the Japanese described by the previous guy. He used piecework method to describe the relationship between purchasing power and income:

The monthly purchasing power is China's monthly salary/price = 1.500 yuan /7 yuan = 2 14 pieces, Japanese 30-year-old worker's monthly salary/price = 300,000 yen/100 yen = 3,000 pieces, and China's daily purchasing power is 2 14 pieces /30 days =7 pieces. On the other hand, the price/wage ratio means that Chinese prices can buy 7 yuan a day and Japanese wages can buy 100 yuan a day.

Many people can't understand this. Someone retorted that a bowl of Lamian Noodles costs 600 yen in Japan, which is 5- 10 times the price in China. In fact, the author is not wrong, and neither is the netizen's Lamian Noodles theory. It's just that netizens have a concept that is not clear. Is in China, the most expensive is the goods, the cheapest is the manpower. In developed countries, the most expensive thing is manpower, and the cheapest thing is goods. In this way, if you go to the supermarket to buy daily necessities and food, the price will be very cheap. How cheap is it? Cheap to equal to or slightly higher than the consumption level in Chinese mainland. The Japanese said that there are hundred-dollar stores, and there are also one-pound stores in Britain. Many things, such as six cokes a catty, twelve eggs a catty, and a large box of biscuits a catty, do exist, so they are not exaggerated. Of course, these shops are all inferior goods, and the same goods in the supermarket will have obvious grade differences, such as a box of eggs, the cheapest one is fifteen pounds, and the most expensive one may be three pounds six. A kilo store is the lowest of its kind, but because many necessities don't need to buy high-end, I am very happy to go. Accordingly, human resources in Britain are very expensive, and as a result, the prices of all service industries will go up a step. The difference between eating in a restaurant and cooking at home may be three or four times. So like China, eating at home is not as good as going to a restaurant, except KFC or some Indian-Pakistani kebab fast food restaurants. Sadly, China's cheap manpower is not only reflected at home, but also in Britain. The same door-to-door delivery, Pizza Hut is a bit all over London. It should take no more than 65,438+00 minutes to get to my home, but the starting price is 65,438+05. A Chinese restaurant I know is 25 minutes' drive from my home, starting at 10. On rainy days, I ordered a dish of 12 Jin. An hour and a half later, the doorbell rang and a boy with clean hair 18 years old stood at the door. I feel very sorry, because I know that if he only transports about 65,438+02 pounds an hour by car, his income per hour should not exceed 3 pounds. I know that the legal minimum wage in Britain is 5.5 pounds, but the minimum wage in China is 2 pounds.

I think that Japanese guy has a thorough understanding of Japan's social structure and economic system, and I admire him very much. He is far from that level, so he can only try his best to imitate his composition logic here.

1, income and purchasing power.

Income: The average Briton's income after graduation is 20,000 pounds, increasing year by year, reaching 30,000 pounds around the age of 30 and 40,000 pounds at the age of 40, which is the average after-tax level. Below this, it should be considered unsatisfactory, and above this, it should be considered more successful. The monthly purchasing power is calculated at 30,000 pounds. British monthly salary/price = 2,500 pounds/2,500 yuan, and British daily purchasing power should be 2,500/30, which is more than 83 yuan. Personally, I think that using one pound in Britain is still slightly more than 100 yen, so the living standards in Japan and Britain should be relatively close, and Japan is slightly higher. This should be understandable. Japan's GDP per capita is slightly higher than that of Britain. Due to eating habits, some food prices in Britain and Japan should be different. For example, milk, eggs, potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, beef, mutton and juice in Britain are relatively cheap, but fish, fresh leafy vegetables and pork are relatively expensive. Generally speaking, on weekends, I usually drive to a large supermarket nearby to buy things 24 hours a day, buy things for two weeks and fill the refrigerator. If we don't go to restaurants and socialize, my girlfriend and I will live on about 200-300 Jin a month, which is enough for us to eat and drink. If you go to a general restaurant, the per capita consumption is 15-20 pounds.

2. Residence

House prices in London are 30%-40% more expensive than those in other cities. London is divided into six districts from the inside out. You can imagine London as six concentric circles, and the prices of the six circles from inside to outside are also from high to low. British people will rent a house within one or two years after they have their first job. Generally speaking, in a modern high-end apartment area with a good location, the rent of two rooms and one living room in the second or third district near the subway station is 1000 a month, and if it is in the first district in the city center, the price may reach 1500-2000. A three-bedroom apartment with a garden in the third district may cost 800 pounds a month, so it is a good choice to find a house outside the third district near the railway station. Most British people buy houses by installment, so they can go directly to the bank to talk about installment. A nice three-bedroom, two-bedroom house with a garden garage in the third district is about 30W, so a down payment of 3W and a monthly payment of 500 in 20 years should be very similar to the situation in Japan. Housing prices in second-tier cities such as Manchester and Birmingham are about 20%-30% lower, and housing prices in third-tier cities are 50%-70% lower. I once went to a seaside town called grimsby in the north of England to play, and I felt itchy when I saw the sea view room there for 8W.

3. Telephone charges

I want to mention this alone because I was once a victim of telecom exploitation, and I always thought it was a very extravagant thing to make a phone call. Every time there is a phone call, I have to look at the area code and calculate how many kilometers away. After signing a mobile phone in the UK, I finally understood many questions, such as why people in China like texting so much. Mobile phones here are generally contracted, 18 months contract, paying 30 pounds a month. The operator gives you a mobile phone worth 300 pounds, with a monthly call charge of 1000 minutes and 500 text messages, and the minutes are counted in one direction. It is absolutely impossible to answer the phone and collect money. 30× 18-300, so the total cost of 18 months is 240 pounds, and the cost of one month is about 13 pounds. I thought that my mobile phone bill should be about 100 yuan every month during my college years. Calculate the income difference between the two places, and then think that SMS really hates telecommunications.

Step 4 tax

British taxes are very high. If you work formally, those who earn 65,438+0,500-35,000 pounds need to pay 20% personal income tax, and there is also 65,438+0% annual medical insurance fee. Those who earn more than 35,000 pounds should pay 40% tax, that is to say, an Englishman with an annual salary of 40,000 pounds should pay 35,000 × 20%+5,000 × 40% = 9,000 pounds a year in personal income tax. The higher your income, the more you pay taxes. Britain implements a real policy of high income and high contribution. A lot of tax revenue in Britain is used for health care and education. The cost of national education is extremely low, and medical care is free for all. In fact, it covers not only the whole people, but all residents legally living in Britain, including international students. This system ensures that even the poorest people can enjoy the most basic right, the right to life. No matter whether you have a formal job or not, you can go to the hospital to enjoy the doctor's free diagnosis. The doctor will give you a pharmacy, and you can go to the hospital or drugstore to buy it yourself, so as to change the role of the hospital from selling drugs to diagnosing. This is the key measure to separate doctors from money. Only by stripping off the interests of these key departments can we solve many problems we criticize today.

The above is an introduction to some aspects of British life. I hope everyone can have a general understanding of the living standards abroad in combination with the actual life of the Japanese.