it would get you quite a lot in London actually, 500 quid a week, 2,000 quid a month absurd. Its private landlords who have been allowed to charge what they like, part of the problem, and who set the tariff at such a high level, as said on another thread, there are thousands of empty properties here, but council would rather leave them empty, than get tenants in, give them a grant to do up the place, then charge them a fair rent. Our council is selling off good council housing stock, bought up by property developers, done up for peanuts, then flogged off for millions.