A study called “Family Pressure Gauge” says the United Kingdom is Europe’s third worst place for families to live, after Bulgaria and Romania.
Some points of the study: Almost 25% of the average British family income goes to childcare, which is double the percentage spent by French families and three times that for German families.
One in seven U.K. families spend more than 40% of their income on rent or a mortgage, compared to only 1.8% of French families.
One in 20 British families live in “severe housing deprivation”, 12 times more than the Netherlands.
The survey also revealed Britons work the longest hours in Europe, and that the U.K. ranks as the second worst country in Europe for maternity and paternity leave.