Yeah, London prices are absolutely insane. My friend who currently lives in the UK is looking just for a rental place. For the same price that he could rent an entire 2-bedroom apartment all for himself in Canada, he can only get a room in a shared place in London. And that's not even Central London. And he's a software developer, so it's not like his salary is even super low! Ridiculous. No thank you.

He is moving to Ontario though, so he'll be away from that expensive lifestyle soon enough, fortunately.