TESTIMONIALS – Living in the British capital has become a real nightmare for some expatriates who can no longer cope with the rise, in recent months, in rents but also in electricity and gas prices.
Hélène returned to the Paris region at the end of November, with her parents, but has not yet finished unpacking all her belongings. “I think it’s still difficult for me to tell myself that the London adventure is over“, explains the thirty-something. After seven years in the English capital, the young woman had no choice but to return to France. “I felt that at some point I was going to be asphyxiated“, she confides. In question, the increase in its rent and prices in supermarkets. “It had become financially unbearable for me.»
Arriving in London at the end of her studies, at the age of 23, Hélène had built the life she had always dreamed of. “Living in London has always been one of my goals, there seemed to me more professional opportunities and more dynamic life than in Paris.Thanks to her communication diploma, she easily obtained a first job. “It was fantastic to think that even being French I could make a…
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