it's not really that expensive to live in london if your a pretty domestic person. My accomodation is 350£ a month, trasnport is 81£ a month (that's unlimited transport between zone 2 and central) and food is maybe 60£ a month (cook food you lazy bastards!). so that's about 500£ a month on the bare basics, and if you're careful you're down about 6 or 700 a month having fun (closer to 700 if u have a gf). So i send quite a lot of cash back home to my savings, but then again i'm living quite cheap over here and i coudl just as easily spend that savings in london on food or anything else. I'm going back to aus with my savings, that'll be fun