London flatshare available

how cheap is cheap

Students > Arsenal fans.

i am afflicted by both atm ;_;

did a cursory search and cheapest monthly rent for a flat/self contained shoebox was like £500

n e wayz plax is looking for a share so idk if that's rlvnt

tallies with towns in west of ireland ffs

yeah.

a lil bit more worried about finding a job tbh.

srsly, the prices on gumtree are not that diff than galway, which seems kindof mental.

just figured out the source of the misunderstanding

i was talking per week, not per month

w/e

also lol

see i was going to say that

People who grew up in Somerset have to keep mentally downscaling the size of London, it's the only way their tiny rural brains can cope with anywhere bigger than Yeovil without panicking.

I kinda feel like responding to this as the Americans do whenever anyone refers to any aspect of their culture in derogatory terms but I can't be bothered (and you're probably right on the whole just doesn't apply to me).

£350/month in a house share probably isn't gonna get you much either tbh but gems do appear for fuck all if you're persistant. A friend of mine used to lodge with a family in a really nice house in Streatham for very little money but that would be quite a different experience I imagine.

Half my extended family are from Somerset, I'm allowed to do it.

if you like painting it might be worth giving camelot a try, it can be an arse moving but you can get incredible spaces for next to nothing

also SE london isn't really london

hate this shit

am keeping diplomatic silence on that one

i never heard of camelot before - sounds wild. http://uk.cameloteurope.com/544/1/vetting-of-guardians/strict-selection-of-guardians.html

are u gonna stay in greenwich & environs lj

we were thinking wapping, am considering rotherhithe, wd consider greenwich/deptford too - kinda wanna be e of centre - much prefer the area - less opulence, more industrial grandeur and open space

wd also consider tower hamlets but not the isle of dogs bit

idk those places rly

wapping is mostly yuppie scum, prob a grand a month for anything decentish there, tower hamlets is obv more grimy nahmean

Rotherhithe is kind of grim and weirdly isolated, cut off between main road and river on all sides, and nasty combination of gated yuppy flats, industrial estates and grimy tower blocks. Don't really see the appeal.

feel newham would be a better fit for lj's grime career

thing is with two sources of income, the options open up dramatically

wapping, mostly yuppie scum? aw, have liked it on walks thru, maybe limehouse or bow is a better plan tho

newham is much nicer than everyone says, nb this is based solely on my 'every-district-line-station walk' from upminster to embankment

If you live with students as a non-student, doesn't the whole flat become eligible for council tax? Or am I misremembering this?

think u r right

ugh why is everything complicated

i cannot imagine wanting to live between the river and the DLR, it all seems so... weird

wapping, mostly yuppie scum? aw, have liked it on walks thru, maybe limehouse or bow is a better plan tho

― legerndrymayne (acoleuthic), Thursday, 13 January 2011 13:16 (5 minutes ago)

friends of mine are in shadwell which apparently is better, they have a v nice place but think they are kinda conned paying ~ two grand a month for it

general sense of bland cityboy dormitory around there idk

I've only really perceived an open-skied East London old/new architectural miasma, lots of newsagents, winding backalleys

maybe gotta go further east to escape the whitecollar hordes

like, tons and tons of those boxy modern towerblock flats with tasteful balconies and curved steel and maybe a swimming pool on top, and plenty of quiet streets but like, no cafes or shops or anything, and a few lonely estates kind of plopped in among them every so often

"bland cityboy dormitory" otm

shadwell kind cool though i think, not that far off from stepney

camelot is def a good idea

with plax on this but replace se w/ ne

Walthamstow!

Or Leyton is I think even cheaper.

got some friends who just moved to leyton cuz it was cheaper - appaz it's a really nice area

Got a lot of friends in Wathamstow, still fairly decent price-wise, and reasonably fast links to Central London if needed, close to the 406/M25 if not.

plax i'd totally give camelot a shot, that link tracer sent wrt selection process is bizarre considering the people i've met who do the camelot thing. a friend has just moved into a room just off old street roundabout where he's paying half what i pay for my place and he's got 10x as much space.

if you're thinking north east:

aldgate/whitechapel/mile end/bow/bethanl green end of town is a bit cheaper than the shoreditch/dalston/stoke newington bit. it's a bit more grown up which is nice. holloway/kentish town is a quieter and you can find some pretty nice places for cheap

south of the river: i'd look at camberwell/peckham/new cross before looking any further south

shadwell is best place in that little area imo altho yeah a lot of gated cityboy apartment blocks, always feels a bit dead round there imo

Camelot could be okay if you don't have a lot of stuff and are happy being moved around at random and at short notice. On the plus side you could end up living in some pretty neato places. I know someone who was living in a disused mental hospital just north of Oxford Street for a while.

Another vote for Camberwell/Peckham/New Cross. Heaps of buses around there.

rather walthamstow than peckham tbqh

aldgate/whitechapel/mile end/bow/bethanl green end of town is a bit cheaper than the shoreditch/dalston/stoke newington bit. it's a bit more grown up which is nice. holloway/kentish town is a quieter and you can find some pretty nice places for cheap

would be inclined to agree

kinda like bow/holloway best out of all those

shadwell isn't the worst idea at all - what about limehouse? area round weaver's field?

yo dudes...got a room going in my flat from august 6th. bout 625 inc all bills, is a really nice place, 5 mins from central line, on globe road. mail me r o n a n f i t z g e r a l d at gee mail dot com

unnecessary spacing out of gmail.com there but nonetheless, have at it.

i have a friend who needs a room but er.. she's a single mum with a three year old

NO

(on religious grounds)

haha yeah it's a big ask, that one. i know you have strong feelings about fallen women.

i'm looking for a room right now but for less than £625pcm (which is why i want to move out of here) (also HOUSEMATES ugh still so dirty).

tracer you were trying to move your friend into our place when gareth moved out, she still hasn't had any luck?!

well she found a council flat but it is shitty, w/a shared bathroom :(

passed this info. on to a very good friend on mine

bumping this - i know london ilx is small, but got a room going in the flat i rent in bethnal green for one person, £617 a month before council tax/bills, it's a decent sized double room with a a lot of storage, massive walk-in wardrobe, big flat, big living room, newly renovated bathroom and toilet, big. nice location on a one-way street, 5 mins from central line. let me know here if you are interested...