Jamie Atkinson spent just over a year travelling around Asia in 2022 and came back to a far more expensive UK than the one he left.
WORDS BY NICOLE GARCIA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MONEY SUPERMARKET I started travelling in September 2022 and spent time in India, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia among others while living off my savings.
This was largely possible because I was going to countries where the cost of living was a lot cheaper. In some places I was paying as little as 70p for a pint and £1 for dinner.
When I came back I was really shocked at the prices of some things in the UK — the cost of drinking and eating out seems to have gone up by so much in the past few years.