Timeline for Are median London prices noticeable higher than the rest of the UK?
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| S Oct 13, 2019 at 13:29 | history | suggested | Rodrigo de Azevedo |
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 13:28 | comment | added | AzCopey | It occurred to me that cinema prices are easy to check online. Comparing Dundee to London on the Odeon website comes out at £7.25 and £8.75 respectively. That's roughly a 21% markup which adds to the other evidence provided by others that my assertion was incorrect. Thanks folks :) | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 13:19 | vote | accept | AzCopey | ||
| Jan 17, 2018 at 13:18 | comment | added | AzCopey | The last time I bought a pint in south London it cost a bit over £4, which is approximately what I would pay in a decent pub in Edinburgh. The question was originally prompted by a Londoner being surprised at paying "London prices" in Edinburgh. I'm aware there are places that charge considerably more than that in London (and elsewhere in the country) but that wasn't my question. Whether the price of a pint would vary between a Wetherspoons in Manchester or London is more what I'm looking for; though not perfect given 'spoons are probably below average quality. | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 12:10 | comment | added | Tom W | Pubs no more expensive in London? Are you mad? Unless it's Wetherspoons, I cannot possibly envisage how you could perceive this to be the case. The last time I paid under £5 for a pint of anything in London was over a decade ago. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 19:13 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Dec 17, 2017 at 16:28 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 17, 2017 at 15:14 | answer | added | Mike M | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 13:50 | comment | added | MD-Tech | I found the raw data at ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/datasets/… so will process it when I get chance. There are 127000 ish data points so don't expect me to be quick! | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 13:47 | comment | added | Mark Perryman | In my experience, a typical pub in Coventry will sell beer for £2-£3 per pint, while in London the same beer would be £3-£4 or more in what I would consider the same level of establishment. I would be surprised if supermarkets were much different though. | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 13:26 | history | edited | AzCopey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2017 at 13:25 | comment | added | AzCopey | @ssn Good point. I mean a pub of equal quality; a mid-quality pub across the UK rather than locally. I was trying to rule out comparing a cheap pub in a small town vs a high-end pub in London. The point you're making is essentially what I'm trying to figure out. I suspect that when some people say London is more expensive they're often comparing apples and oranges; a good quality London pub versus a lesser pub elsewhere. That London isn't inherently (that much) more expensive, there is just a broader range of quality available. | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 7:44 | comment | added | ssn | "mid-quality pub".. Are you here referring to pubs of the same quality - or mid quality from low to high in the city you are in? Same-quality pubs I would suspect have similar prices - but mid-quality pubs may not - because the mid-quality in London may be the same as the high-quality pub somewhere else, hence the London mid-quality pub I would expect to be more expensive than a mid-quality pub in a small town. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 1:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackFinance/status/912496712698269696 | ||
| Sep 25, 2017 at 20:22 | comment | added | Kevin | Not sure about London, though I'd assume it's the same, but in Silicon Valley housing is several times the rest of the country, but most other things are "only" more like 0-50% more. | |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 12:27 | comment | added | MD-Tech | this is why I didn't add it as an answer. I haven't been to a McDonald's in 20 years so wouldn't know about their fine dining restaurants or lack thereof | |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 12:14 | comment | added | AzCopey | I've come across similar sites while reading around, but as with the others I can't see any indication of whether or not these values are median or mean, which is the primary reason for my question. That said, it is interesting that there is a 50p difference in "McMeal at McDonalds", as I'm not sure there is such a thing as an "upmarket McDonalds" to skew the mean. | |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 12:04 | comment | added | MD-Tech | here's a quick comparison with Birmingham, the site will allow you to compare with a number of other UK cities: numbeo.com/cost-of-living/… | |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 11:25 | history | edited | Ganesh Sittampalam♦ |
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| Sep 25, 2017 at 11:18 | history | asked | AzCopey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |