Chapter Seventeen
Rocking the boat.
The problem with city living is that it’s expensive. More expensive than anywhere else. And London has always been right at the forefront of the issue. Groceries, bills, motoring, alcohol … whatever you think of, it will be costlier the closer to central London you are. I’d lost track of the times I found myself at the pub, converting the price of my drink to dollars and wincing at the fee.
Most people estimate that the cost of living is roughly ten-percent higher in the capital, but for me, the cost was much greater than that. Still, the part that stung most people in the wallet most was housing.
With unscrupulous landlords and overseas investors owning an estimated half of all property in the British capital, it was a tough time to be an individual
