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Is 130K GBP a good salary in the UK for someone planning to move from the US to the UK?

Quora is a funny old place.The other day I read an answer from a guy who had managed to save $1M before he was 35 in super sensible diverse ways.He claimed he was “doing ok” and people in the comments were telling him to “keep going and you’ll be wealthy in another 20 years.”This is completely insane.Now I know people who earn 6+ figures mostly have friends who earn 6+ figures. To them this wealth becomes normal. But it’s not. Very few human beings on this earth earn that much money.Coming back down to earth, if you don’t have any debt aside from a mortgage and maybe student loan payments, have a company pension and manage to save £250 per month out of your take home pay, you are in a fantastic position which most normal working people would be very pleased with.By my calculations this is very achievable on a salary of £40,000 whilst still having a nice lifestyle and a couple of holidays a year.In my mind, a salary of around £40,000 is what you need in the UK to live a comfortable, yet not extravagant lifestyle.If you are a couple with children, and both earn £40,000, you will be doing very well indeed. If you don’t have kids, you will live like kings and queens.£130K per year is silly money.On that sort of money you will literally be one of the richest human beings who’s ever lived.Don’t let wannnabe entrepreneurs on Quora tell you otherwise.

Is £50,000 a year a good enough salary to live in London?

It depends on your lifestyle, your tolerance for long commutes and how much you plan to set aside for retirement/savingsAccording to the "take home pay calculator" The Salary Calculator - Take-Home tax calculator, out of a 50k salary, you'll be left with 36.5k. Say 3k per monthHousing will be your biggest expense, and housing cost is inversely proportional to commute time (assuming work in central London). If you are willing to commute 1+ hour each way per day, you can probably live ok on whatever's left of those 3k. Don't forget various council taxes and utilities on top of the rent. And commuting is not cheap (depending on your commute, can easily spend 200 or more per month).If you are willing to share an apartment, you can probably live in a much closer/more desirable area. Also, don't forget, that if you are 1+ hour away from central London, even if you are "living in London", you might not exactly enjoy spending evenings and week-ends strolling around Kensington park or shopping in Mayfair (not that you could afford the latter, on a 50k//year salary, mind you)Best way for you to figure out is to use the 3k/month starting point and look at a site like Zoopla > Search Property, enter a postcode close to your work area, and see what you can find in your price range. Keep in mind that many place list the price per week (pcw), not per month(pcm) and there are more than 4 weeks in a month, on average. And that no place looks in real life as it does in those pictures (and the cheap places tend to have a lot of other non-desirable characteristics, like a noisy environment or bad exposure).Outside of housing and high cost of public transport, other costs in London are a bit higher than elsewhere, but not completely out of line: you can eat a good Marks and Spencer salads cheaply, and there are cheap eating options. Pubs are expensive, and there's no limit to how much you can spend in a restaurant, if you are so inclined. But there are also plenty of affordable places (for example, the delicious Franco Manca Marcherita pizza, a lunch in itself, is only 6 pounds, which is cheap by any standard. And you are comfortably sitting in a nice restaurant)

Is it correct to say "please let me know if you need help" or must I use "whether"?

De’Veon, here is an explanation about whether versus if from a blog I wrote in 2018:Whether ... or not & if | Ruthless Editor Kathleen WatsonWhether and IfWhen using informal language, if and whether can be interchangeable:I wonder if Ben is going to the baseball game.I wonder whether Ben is going to the baseball game.(Both sentences question Ben’s plans to go — or to not go — to the baseball game.)When you’re expressing a choice between two alternatives, use whether:I don’t know whether Ben is going to the baseball game or the basketball game.(Ben will decide to go to one game or the other.)When you substitute if for whether in the same phrasing, you create a statement with a different implication:I don’t know if Ben is going to the basketball game or the baseball game.(Ben could decide to go to neither.)Consider how you would use vocal emphasis if you were speaking each of the last two options:I don’t know whether Ben is going to the baseball game or the basketball game.I don’t know if Ben is going to the basketball game or the baseball game.Whether or notNow consider these examples that show how or not affects meaning:Let Ben know if you would like to go to the baseball game.(This statement requests that you contact Ben only if you choose to go to the game.)Let Ben know whether or not you would like to go to the baseball game.(This statement requests that you contact Ben in either case.)