The median price/income ratio isn't way out in left field, though.  I believe this puts it at about 4.5, which exceeds the traditional bar, as I understand it, of 4 but pales in comparison to the 10 you'll find in many parts of Britain these days.  I believe average prices have reach levels above £300k in London, at this point, and even worse in some areas.  Ran through, just for the hell of it, a few real-estate searches on Great London the other day.  Found nothing -- literally nothing -- for less than £140k, and what you got for that money was essentially a four-square-foot trashcan in Bethnal.

So it's not, in my opinion, as bad as is sometimes feared, given all the hype in the press.

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