Really if your looking for a one bed it should be easy to find one in London for 700 pounds. It will be more in croyden or east london type areas. Anything near Oxford will cost you 1000 plus.

Go outside london and you will definately find a flat for 600 pounds a month. However I warn you that it may not be in ideal area. And you may like to splash out for safety reasons.

Go further afield say up north in one of the smaller cities and you can find some in the city center even cheaper then that. In durham I saw 1 bedroom flats rent for less than 500 pounds a month.

I reckon that including food, utilities, council taxes and transportation you can get by on a tight budget of about 1000 pounds a month.

Certainly by uk standards your salary is very good. One of my best friends is a pharmacist.. new grad and earns about 25k a year. Apparantly only senior pharmacists earn more then 45k. So your doing pretty well.

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