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UNITED KINGDOM

Stories from travellers who have explored UNITED KINGDOM: real experiences, with photographs from people who have been there.

235travel diaries
2.999traveller photographs
1989–2023years of stories

How people live in United Kingdom

quality of life 82/100

Quality of life

82out of 100 · #23 of 95
Out of 100: higher is better
Healthcare85
Safety71
Infrastructure96
Climate and lifestyle76

The best on the continent

Malta93
Ireland91
Switzerland91
Portugal90
United Kingdom82

What it costs to live there

2.595 €per month · third-party estimate
official figure: 84,9 (2024) — it costs 85% of what it costs in the United States.
How expensive it is, item by item — short and green = cheap, long and red = expensive
Groceries55
Rent80
Utilities80
Transport80

The price basket

What everyday life costs, item by item. Where an official source exists we publish it ourselves, the rest is told by travellers.

⛽Petrol · 1 litreto collectnobody has told it yet
🥛Milk · 1 litreto collectnobody has told it yet
🍞Bread · 1 kgto collectnobody has told it yet
☕Coffee at the barto collectnobody has told it yet
🍺Draught beer · 0.5 lto collectnobody has told it yet
🚕Taxi · 1 kmto collectnobody has told it yet
🍽Simple lunchto collectnobody has told it yet
💧Water · 1.5 litresto collectnobody has told it yet
Tell us the prices you found

Petrol: weekly bulletin from the European Commission, 5 October 2026 — data public and reusable. The other items will come from travellers’ stories, with name and date.

Cost, third-party estimate: WhereNext (getwherenext.com), licence CC BY 4.0, dataset 2026. Cost, official figure: World Bank — PPP factor ÷ official exchange rate × 100; the year is shown next to the figure (100 = United States). Note: the four item categories come from an index of affordability by WhereNext (higher = cheaper): here we show them inverted, so higher = more expensive, like the rest of the column. Healthcare: WHO · Safety: Global Peace Index · Climate and lifestyle: Open-Meteo · Infrastructure: Eurostat/OECD — collected by WhereNext, CC BY 4.0, 10 July 2026.
Exchange rate: amounts converted from USD to EUR at the ECB reference rate of 7 October 2026 (1 USD = 0.8947 EUR).

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