The Ukrainian couple went to the UK to seek refuge, but were dissuaded by the high rent in the UK! How high are rents in the UK?

The impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war also caused many Ukrainian citizens to choose to leave their homes and flee to live in other countries. Recently, according to British media reports, a pair once chose to move to the UK to escape the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. A young couple who could not afford the more expensive rent in the UK had to choose to return to Ukraine.

This young couple is the 29-year-old British Price and his 34-year-old Ukrainian wife Irina. They met and fell in love in Kiev, Ukraine three years ago, and finally settled in Kiev. , after the conflict between Russia and Ukraine broke out, they left Ukraine in order to escape the war and came to the UK first, so they had to choose to live temporarily in the homes of relatives and friends.

After all, the couple came all the way from Ukraine, and it was not a long-term solution to live under someone else’s roof for a long time. Therefore, they also hoped to find an ideal place to live in the UK, but the couple also did They encountered many problems. For example, the local housing conditions in the UK were poor, and they had to pay relatively expensive rental fees. Therefore, they were constrained by various practical conditions, and their savings in the UK could not afford the rent, and the UK’s The landlord would not accept the funds in their Ukrainian bank account, so the couple's life in the UK was so-called restricted.

According to the couple, if you rent a house in the UK, you will have to pay at least 1,500 pounds in monthly rent. In addition, due to the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war this year, the cost of domestic energy consumption in the UK has soared and the general public consumption has increased. As inflation rises, rents in the UK have also risen a lot. Even compared with last year, tenants have to pay an average of 960 more pounds in rent every year.

So the couple like the above have now returned to western Ukraine. Even though the rent of the house here has increased a lot, at least those who choose to live in the UK do not need to bear the more expensive rent. Housing costs, plus the fact that it is safer than Kiev, make them very happy living here.