{"id":304460,"date":"2025-07-30T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304460\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:32:12","slug":"i-can-barely-afford-rent-and-im-a-privileged-journalist-with-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304460\/","title":{"rendered":"I can barely afford rent \u2013 and I\u2019m a privileged journalist with a job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s really no wonder that nowadays I spend over half my salary on rent and bills, and I\u2019m definitely not saving anything. My situation is not even wildly abnormal. The average London renter spends around 49% of their household income on rent, which is a figure considered unaffordable by official standards. It\u2019s worse for recent grads, who earn on average between \u00a332,000 and \u00a338,000 (not all of them, though, surely &#8211; mine was \u00a318k but I guess I chose the wrong profession).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s really no wonder that nowadays I spend over half my salary on rent and bills, and I\u2019m&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,6781,4884,476,5701,257,21392,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-304460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-gen-z","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-inflation","13":"tag-job","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-rents","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114943383651131178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}