Moving costs!

So I have been checking out the price to move my shizzle over the pond. Not cheap! For a one bedroom, we might be lucky to get away with only $3800. That is bank on my budget. Don't quite know what I am going to do to get the jink together. And what is with London? Do people not own any of their own shtuff if they rent? Every where I look, it is always furnished apartments. And if they are not furnished, then they are just as expensive as the furnished ones.