room for rent in Elephant
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How much does that cost?!
£650 a month plus bills and tax. I'm definitely going to be moving out at the end of the contract though. The room is only big enough for a wardrobe, chest of drawers and double bed. I need a desk so I can work from home, and do music stuff. Tis a nice flat in a great location though. 20 minutes walk to work, plus some great night buses that take less than 20 minutes to get you home.
My soul and integrity was lost when I moved south of the river into a flat near Canada Water. Haven't been able to recover it since
I'm still none the wiser
Ah, near Kilburn?
Have a search for Warwick Avenue tube station.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
£650 a month plus bills and tax. I'm definitely going to be moving out at the end of the contract though. The room is only big enough for a wardrobe, chest of drawers and double bed. I need a desk so I can work from home, and do music stuff. Tis a nice flat in a great location though. 20 minutes walk to work, plus some great night buses that take less than 20 minutes to get you home.
My soul and integrity was lost when I moved south of the river into a flat near Canada Water. Haven't been able to recover it since
Yeah, but that's not real South.
My mortgage for a 2 bedroom Victorian place, with big rooms, high ceilings, eat-in kitchen, garden, front garden, all wood floors, stained glass windows, fireplace, 10 mins from London Bridge, etc is now £650 after the interest rates have dropped
Edit: that was oddly smug / sarcastic of me. I apologise.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
I'm still none the wiser
Ah, near Kilburn?
Ask Duffy.
Yeah, but that's not real South.
My mortgage for a 2 bedroom Victorian place, with big rooms, high ceilings, eat-in kitchen, garden, front garden, all wood floors, stained glass windows, fireplace, 10 mins from London Bridge, etc is now £650 after the interest rates have dropped
Edit: that was oddly smug / sarcastic of me. I apologise.
Lucky bastard!
I've not got enough deposit saved to buy a place yet. And, at the rate I spend money, I won't ever have a deposit saved.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
£650 a month plus bills and tax. I'm definitely going to be moving out at the end of the contract though. The room is only big enough for a wardrobe, chest of drawers and double bed. I need a desk so I can work from home, and do music stuff. Tis a nice flat in a great location though. 20 minutes walk to work, plus some great night buses that take less than 20 minutes to get you home.
My soul and integrity was lost when I moved south of the river into a flat near Canada Water. Haven't been able to recover it since
That's a soulless part of London fer true...
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Yeah, but that's not real South.
My mortgage for a 2 bedroom Victorian place, with big rooms, high ceilings, eat-in kitchen, garden, front garden, all wood floors, stained glass windows, fireplace, 10 mins from London Bridge, etc is now £650 after the interest rates have dropped
Edit: that was oddly smug / sarcastic of me. I apologise.
Must make up nicely for the soul crushing pain of living in the worst part of London.
You know I think I'd rather move back to Romford than live in South London...
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
I go past your bedroom window every day, wanking...
If it's the one I think it is I do too roughly 3 times a week...
we dress up and dance for the trains sometimes and we're going to do banners for the balcony too. Any requests? Its says in the contract 'don't fuck with the balconies taxamo' but i think i can at least wait til i get a warning....
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
we dress up and dance for the trains sometimes and we're going to do banners for the balcony too. Any requests? Its says in the contract 'don't fuck with the balconies taxamo' but i think i can at least wait til i get a warning....
Hahaha! Excellent! I'm normally passing 9.30.40ish am. How about something relating to U75?
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
Before we moved, we had a look about and actually at the moment its the same price or slightly (like £5 a week) more than fully credible ex-council stock which is half the size and half as well heated, shaped etc. The fact is i'm paying £90 which is fucking amazing for what i get. If you want a lot cheaper then you share a very big house with lots of people, but it won't get much cheaper without special circumstances like knowing someone or living with the landlord etc. In short, i'm paying the same i would for a room in a big shared house further out - its not much money at all. Our friends are living together in old, cold, SEVEN PERSON houses in places like Lea Valley are paying more than us. We know its a good deal here, and we save loads on heating and water here cos its so new (and waters included).
As for gentrification, i think we need to understand what that proccess is. An area is neglected by its council and developers see cheap land to turn into a new market - people from outside the area. Now the problem here is uneven development aimed at people from outside the area which obviously favours new, richer people displacing the original residents. Although often the 'gentrifiers' are not actually richer at all, just new to the area, younger, and interested in nice shops and new developments. Now who is responsible, the people moving in, or the developers? You are going to move to what you can afford and this city is a city of immigrants. (You aren't actually from london btw, and I am, several generations at the very least
). The logic of blaming gentrification on the people rather than the developers and the economic system leads you to this conlusion: everyone stay in the area they were born in. I think gentrification is often a by-word for parochialism and lazy assumoptions where actual politics should be, and i rarely use the word. You don't fight gentrification by wishing younger workers wouldn't move into the obvious choice for them, you do it by fighting for equal recognition for the longer term residents and social tenants. Which I do no, it isn't. I lived 5 mins from you in hackney and i've lived in several other london areas in the last 22 years. Its fucking atrocious. To quote sickboy, Leith is more likely to get on the tube before Hackney.
(except with the extension of ELL it won't but hey)
...but who said that???!
Incredible links. Elephant tube = 20 mins from anywhere significant in london, and for S London you have the buses from Walworth and Old Kent Rd. Best transport links i have ever had in london.
PS I'd rather be boiled in dog shit than live back in Elephant
Peckham is perfect
Our black holeness prevents the riff raff from clogging the place up
Ok.
I rather think that some people are being a bit gratuitous now. If you need to reassure yourself about living wherever live, go for it. Its not really comparable. People going 'gald i don't live in london' are a case in point as well; you don't live in london, thread not for you
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
PS I am worried that the EL will make it easier for the unwashed of Hackney to get here and lie awake at night troubled by vision of hideous types in their "engineered" jeans destroying the Rye!!!!!
thats EXACTLY what hackney is like, yeeeeeeeeah!
http://www.hackney.gov.uk/xp-factsandfigures-deprivation.htm
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Must make up nicely for the soul crushing pain of living in the worst part of London.
You know I think I'd rather move back to Romford than live in South London...
I think that says more about than south london
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
Before we moved, we had a look about and actually at the moment its the same price or slightly (like £5 a week) more than fully credible ex-council stock which is half the size and half as well heated, shaped etc. The fact is i'm paying £90 which is fucking amazing for what i get. If you want a lot cheaper then you share a very big house with lots of people, but it won't get much cheaper without special circumstances like knowing someone or living with the landlord etc. In short, i'm paying the same i would for a room in a big shared house further out - its not much money at all. Our friends are living together in old, cold, SEVEN PERSON houses in places like Lea Valley are paying more than us. We know its a good deal here, and we save loads on heating and water here cos its so new (and waters included).
As for gentrification, i think we need to understand what that proccess is. An area is neglected by its council and developers see cheap land to turn into a new market - people from outside the area. Now the problem here is uneven development aimed at people from outside the area which obviously favours new, richer people displacing the original residents. Although often the 'gentrifiers' are not actually richer at all, just new to the area, younger, and interested in nice shops and new developments. Now who is responsible, the people moving in, or the developers? You are going to move to what you can afford and this city is a city of immigrants. (You aren't actually from london btw, and I am, several generations at the very least
no, it isn't. I lived 5 mins from you in hackney and i've lived in several other london areas in the last 22 years. Its fucking atrocious. To quote sickboy, Leith is more likely to get on the tube before Hackney.
(except with the extension of ELL it won't but hey)
...but who said that???!
Incredible links. Elephant tube = 20 mins from anywhere significant in london, and for S London you have the buses from Walworth and Old Kent Rd. Best transport links i have ever had in london.
Ok.
I rather think that some people are being a bit gratuitous now. If you need to reassure yourself about living wherever live, go for it. Its not really comparable. People going 'gald i don't live in london' are a case in point as well; you don't live in london, thread not for you
Yeah. You have to be over-privileged by a fairly reasonable margin to end up clueless enough to think that it is necessary to pay £130 a week for a room in Walworth. Up until a year and a half ago I was paying £90 pw in for a large double room in a flat with an eat-in kitchen, living room and garden, in a relatively nice bit of east Walworth - I was a student then, and assumed I was being reasonable extravagant opting for the double.
Your reply reminds me of those people who say something really racist, then deny being racist, then, when challenged, instead of explaining why they were not actually being racist, just try to explain why racism is ok. At the end of the day, you're a privileged incomer whose presence potentially makes other people's lives more difficult. So what, I am too, to a lesser extent. But don't bother denying it when you've just posted an ad for what is clearly over-priced housing for an insufficiently connected rich student.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Hahaha! Reading shit like this about Tax is fucking funny!
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I live in a shared house ten minutes from Brixton tube with loads of shared space and a garden and what have you. I'm in the biggest room in the house and if I was sharing it with someone else - which is what you seem to be doing - I'd pay less than £50. And water's included. I think you might be getting a bit carried away. I would agree that Elephant is not bad for transport connections, though, even if there's not much else going for it. Except for the shopping centre. I really like the shopping centre.
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
I'm not. I'm paying half that as i share with my girlfriend. As i have pointed out.
ETA - fuck it
i don't know why i was convinced to post this on urban, thought it would probably end like this everyone has a few fair points, and i'm not saying don't shop around - i need a flatmate, i'm living in a place i like and can afford, thassit
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
yr gf must have wet herself when she managed to convince you that your half share of the £130 rent was £90 pw
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I reckon there are a lot worse people to share with than Tax on urban. A lot worse...
Thora
Differently Ethical
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Tax and Lalu really aren't too studenty-yuppie tbh
Actually it's the sharing a flat with a couple bit that would put me off instantly. I'm sure they are lovely.
oh rah!
Cheers Thora, hold that thought though whilst you gimme a call to arrange coming round and listen to some great new dubstep i have on vinyl and drink some lovely new Gavi (2001) I just got, I also just bought some delicious mature manchego from borough market!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tax and Lalu really aren't too studenty-yuppie tbh
Cheers Thora, hold that thought though whilst you gimme a call to arrange coming round and listen to some great new dubstep i have on vinyl and drink some lovely new Gavi (2001) I just got, I also just bought some delicious mature manchego from borough market!!!!!!!!!!!!
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