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Any one live near this bargain flat : £165pw

I looked at that 'flat' a year or so ago - its the mysterious 'London Hotel' opposite the Albert. Basically its a collection of shite little 'studios' like that. It was so, so grim.
 
I paid 140 a week for a studio a bit bigger than that. In camberwell. About five years ago. And I had to pay my own council tax and phone.

It was a lovely building though....

If you want to live on your own then you pay top dollar.
 
If I was a single man I would probably rent something like this.
The place looks crap and the price is a little 'toppy' even for London but not totally out of sync with other flats I have seen.
Not sure what the council tax would be on this but I would think that would account for about £20 per week?
 
Fucking hell - you'd need to be mental. No-one could live in that, surely? :D

I'll show that to my husband later to remind him why we moved away - that's more than we pay for our 4 bedroomed house. :)
 
The write-up for that flat is as patronising as is bullshit.

Gosh I fucking hate estate agents :mad::rolleyes:
 
If you're young, single and busy all the time working and socialising in London I can see how it'd be fine. Pricey but alright.

I just dunno where I'd put all my STUFF :confused:
 
I dunno, some people only really need a bed and a toilet. Like when you're on holiday! Except for longer...
 
T & P said:
The write-up for that flat is as patronising as is bullshit.

Gosh I fucking hate estate agents :mad::rolleyes:
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Don't hate them, they're there to remind the rest of us that we do worthwhile jobs.

Besides, what would you expect an estate agent to say? "Cramped, spartan bedsit with soul destroying decor and ensuite shitter, £165/pw".....

The estate agent is just trying to whore the place out for the landlord - who is, imho, a far more deserving target of ones vitriol. I bet whoever owns it has a whole "portfolio" of similar BTL places....
 
slcr said:
I don't understand. You can't rent in Brixton cheaper for that. Why is everyone so surprised? The cheapest thing I ever found in London was a ROOM in a shitty house in Zone 3 for £85 pw and that was five *years* ago.

*Cagey - lives in tiny box*
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I live in a lovely big room in a nice maisonette in Brixton for which I pay eighty something a week. And this is the most expensive place I've ever lived.

You're not looking in the right place.
 
zenie said:
Shared houses are £550 a month I'm not surprised by this tbh. :hmm:
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You'd be getting a shared room in somewhere much nicer for that though.

I find it hard to see how living on your own is seen by a lot of people as automatically a step up, even if it involved living somewhere like that.
 
Good god...that is horrible. I probably like living on my own more that anyone else in the world but even I would rather live in a shared house than in there. You might as well get yourself sent to prison.
 
Monkeygrinder's Organ said:
I find it hard to see how living on your own is seen by a lot of people as automatically a step up, even if it involved living somewhere like that.
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cos you don't have to deal with your flatmates boyfriend inviting himself to live with you for a year without paying anything towards the rent, electricity, council tax, gas etc etc etc, despite you asking your flatmate specifically before you moved in "is your boyfriend going to invite himself to live with us for a year without paying anything towards..."

Or him trying to climb in a first floor window when he was pissed, falling off the drainpipe and breaking his ankle, and then spending three weeks lying on the sofa.

or for one flatmate to start sleeping with another flatmate's ex-boyfriend

or for another flatmate to start selling crack and running an escort agency from the downstairs room.

these problems just melt away when you don't have to deal with other people. :cool:
 
Monkeygrinder's Organ said:
I find it hard to see how living on your own is seen by a lot of people as automatically a step up, even if it involved living somewhere like that.
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It depends, some people like shared living, some people despise the company of other human beings and spend most of the time hiding in their room, desperately fighting the urge to run out and repeatedly stab each housemate in the face with a rusty axe.

I find solo living quite calming. I can go for days without wanting to mutilate anyone. :cool:
 
There are limits though. If you hate other people enough to want to live in that cell you're probably best off becoming a hermit and living in a cave.:p
 
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