Worth moving to London?
I am going to start working as an investment banking analyst in September. Seems like the model will be 3 days in the office and 2 days at home going forward. I currently live just outside of London (1hr 15min commute each way to the office). Given this, is it worth moving to central London??? I.e. would it be sustainable doing a 2hr 30min commute 3 days a week with the investment banking hours?
When I worked and lived in London, we had 5 days at the office, WFH the other days. Occasionally we had the chance to WFH on a Friday afternoon. But most decent parties were on a Friday night, so I'd also go in on a Friday.
Let me put it this way - in all the years I was working in London, I spent a combined 8.3 months commuting to and from work. It means that all the time on trains, tube, car, walking, bus, DLR, and all other methods combined resulted in >6000 hours which I could have used doing something else. Life is short, think twice if you have other, more important things to do rather than sit or stand on public transport.
First of all, find out if the three days have to be consecutive or if you can have a short week for every week of your job. There are lots of short term rentals in London where you can spent 4 nights and then head back to the home counties for a very long weekend. That's what I would do.
If that isn't possible the commute would kill a lot of time and I would argue it is not as attractive to live far away.
Move to Brighton
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