Just our luck, supermarkets will now charge for bags in the UK.
The visa rules have changed so much this year making it tougher for foreigners. Firstly they introduced the health charge of 150GBP which foreigners need to pay upfront plus the TB test which costs over R1000. The Tier 4 student visa cost about R6000, so did the spouse visa.
Not to mention that the rand is at its absolute worst around R21 to the pound :( can't help mulitiplipying prices by 21. We know that living in UK is much more expensive. Last night we ate at an Indian Restaurant called Saffron in Banbury Street in Summertown. We had poppadoms, I had an orange juice and the veg tikka masala with basmati rice and Athol had the veg Britain which came to R560! For that we could have gone to Bukharra in SA which is much nicer plus we'd get change.
We sure don't choose cheap places to study and live. Our rent is about 800 GBP which is over R16k! Which is ridiculously expensive considering it's only 50sqm but at least it's better than London where we were paying over 1000 GBP. Let's hope that the rand strengthens.
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