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Do Not Pass Go, Do Pay Unaffordable London Rents in Monopoly
A playful approach to London’s horrifying real estate prices.
The first thing you need to know is that the United Kingdom has its very own Monopoly board. While the classic game lets Americans loose in New Jersey’s Atlantic City, British real estate hounds can buy up properties in one of the most expensive cities in the world: London, England.
Since 1935, when the Parker Brothers first licensed the creation of a U.K. Monopoly board, London has gotten even more expensive. Exactly how mind-bendingly pricey? That’s the question explored by a new game board by the international roommate-finding website Weroom, which helps users track down “flatshares” in a number of British, French, Belgian and German cities.