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Why is this the case? I'm a frontend dev for a startup in London and I make 18k annually (80% of that because I only work 4 days a week). It's peanuts, but luck
by yashodhan 13y ago
Why is this the case? I'm a frontend dev for a startup in London and I make 18k annually (80% of that because I only work 4 days a week). It's peanuts, but luckily I don't mind being poor.
- ValentineC 13y agoDo you mind sharing whereabouts in London you're staying? (Zone x, or slightly outside London...?) I was there for some years, and my rent was always around 8k a year. I find trying to live in an expensive city while on a low salary admirable.
- Anderkent 13y agoI guess it depends on your requirements. If you're young and without dependants it's much cheaper. I live in a flatshare, 40 minute door-to-door commute (via overground, luckily, not the tube) and the rent is about 4k a year.
- petercooper 13y agoIn London, it's incredibly popular to live in roommate situations and have just a single room in a house with shared kitchen/bathroom for this reason. I know a lot of people still live with their parents into their late 20s and pay little or no rent, too.
- gaius 13y agoIt's common but it doesn't follow that it's popular.
- yashodhan 13y agoCurrently way out in the boondocks (zone 8). I'm looking to move into Zone 2/3 East London (Shoreditch/Bethnal Green area) to be closer to work. There are quite a few flat shares available for £500-600 pcm, which is my budget. That leaves me with £400/month to live off, which is good enough I suppose.
- jamesdeer 13y agoI'm a start-up founder, and live in Bethnal Green. It's a lovely place to live (in London). Our office is just off of Brick Lane, and it's a short 15 minutes to work every morning :)
- _progger_ 13y agoNo offence, but Bethnal Green looks like an ethnic ghetto. Is it getting better further to the south?
- jblok 13y agoBethnal Green isn't exactly a lovely place to live. It's saving grace is it's proximity to central London/Shoreditch, but there's nothing stand-out about it at all. It seems like no one respects it - every day I walk home from the station past at least 1 drunk/crackhead and rubbish all over the street.
- mseebach 13y agoIt's good that you don't mind being poor, 'cause that's what you're gonna be. I hope that start-up is worth it.
- yashodhan 13y agoGood bunch of guys, and they're helping me add backend development to my skillset. That's how I look at it. Don't care much for equity.
- SandB0x 13y agoNo mate, unless you are getting a significant cofounder-level stake in the project these guys are exploiting you.
- ownagefool 13y agoIt depends how good/wanted he is. I live in Scotland near Edinburgh, my first dev job I was earning £13k. It isn't super easy to break into development in the UK but within a year that had about doubled and that and learnt enough to be able to jump ship, which I did. Now years later, I've happily earning more than the London average by contracting. I ate shit early on because I wanted to get somewhere in an economic time where the young are being screwed. I think it was probably worth it, but only until your experience and talent matures a bit.
- rmc 13y agoDamn, ask for a raise.