{"id":499194,"date":"2025-10-14T16:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/499194\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:17:13","slug":"heres-what-you-now-need-to-earn-to-rent-an-average-room-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/499194\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what you now need to earn to rent an average room in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These figures also show how high rents are limiting the choice of young people starting out. Using the \u201830 per cent rule\u2019 for 22 to 29-year-olds, and taking their average budget as \u00a3780, they wouldn\u2019t be able to live in London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Bath and Cambridge. Younger still, those aged 18 to 21 with a budget of \u00a3550 a month are excluded from most major cities in the UK, although they would be able to afford average room rents in areas such as Liverpool, Swansea, Sheffield, Wolverhampton and Aberdeen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These figures also show how high rents are limiting the choice of young people starting out. Using the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,163879,51706,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-499194","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-great-britain","11":"tag-house-sharing","12":"tag-income","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115373425643652604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499194","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=499194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}