Bath is like the Instagram influencer of UK cities. All Roman baths, Georgian crescents, and honey-coloured stone. It’s so photogenic, you’d think it would be free to look at. It is not free.
To live in Bath, you need a job that pays in avocado toast. I met a couple who moved there, excited about the “community feel.” Two months later, they were eating baked beans from a tin because their mortgage was the size of a small country’s GDP.
The joke is that the water in the Roman Baths is literally cheaper than the rent. You can soak in ancient minerals for a tenner, but to sleep nearby? That’ll be your entire monthly salary, thanks.
