I don't live in the UK I moved back to OZ a few years ago, being a pensioner, I get subsidised electricity of course free medical, and many other things. Having lost everything in Thailand I am renting now. I have a 2-bedroom unit which cost me only 240 AUD per week including water and pay only about 80 AUD for electricity for 2 months I still have my own car although I can use bus and Trains for a very cheap price and still can come twice a year to Thailand for holidays to see my friends. I pay nothing for drinking water at all since I can drink the tap water here. And yes, I don't live in the rip off cities like Sydney or Melbourne I live in the west a city of just over 2 million people. Yes, food is expansive at the moment but that is all over the world. I don't eat a lot anymore being old don't drink spirits or beer because they are expansive, I just have a few red wines which are cost next to nothing here. So, all in all I am quite happy here.