RENT IN LONDON
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- paraselene0
did you get the flat in holloway, nairn?
we just got a one bed in spitalfields. i don't like to say how much we're paying...
not much more than we would if we each had a room in a flatshare, though.
them's the breaks!
- bolus0
aw thanks para, i was looking for a song to listen to on this dreadfull wednesday morning
- Concrete0
not much more than we would if we each had a room in a flatshare, though.
them's the breaks!
paraselene
(Mar 7 07, 02:16)I hate you.
- bolus0
dreadful spelling
- Nairn0
I'm hoping so - we're supposed to be moving this weekend, but was told last night at 4.30 that my prospective new landlord took objection to my magic mushroom selling past in my reference check (apparently the building's owned by a pharma company and didn't want the 'association' - wtf?) so I've spent the last 18 hours stressing about the situation, but have just been told they've back-tracked a little (after my very eloquent (if I do say so myself) counter argument about the immorality of their thinking, the potential legal quagmire they were wading into and my general decency as a human being), so once more in my life I'm pretending to be a proper designer with a proper job and prospects and stuff (rather than a dreamer with multiple aborted business ideas).
Anyways, fingers crossed, otherwise I and my large, pointless collection of stuff are going to be oiked out onto the street on Monday.
- MichaelFelt0
think the gf used gumtree or something like that, found an alright place in shoreditch/hoxton for pretty cheap!
- Nairn0
Oh, para! No, I didn't get that doozie of a flat, I'm afraid. It went a little beyond the budget we'd set ourselves and that estate agent didn't bargain properly, 'cos I reckon we could've got it (I feel, anyway).
No, instead, I'm [hopefully] moving about 200 metres that way *points beyond kitchen* to a generic modern building. Easy move and 6 month contract though, so maybe next time I can get it right (maybe next time I can justify splashing out on a work/live studio place... *dreams up another abortive business idea*
- paraselene0
dang! bummer. hopefully the new flat will be good, anyway.
we were trying for live/work for yonks. but everyone wants those flats so the only ones that haven't been totally 'exposed brick and aga' fied are still out in limehouse and stratford and such.
anyway, now that we're installed in our ex-l.a. little place with the bengalis, i'm quite happy we ended up where we did. it's solid and heats up in about 45 seconds. i'm so over drafty, i really am.
- paraselene0
on another note, nairn, are you coming out with us on the 16th?
- Concrete0
on another note, nairn, are you coming out with us on the 16th?
paraselene
(Mar 7 07, 02:51)Yeah!
(Invests in the power of peer pressure.)
- paraselene0
*stern tone
nairn gordon machaggis simon ewen dickie!
come out from behind that sofa right now and speak to your internet friends who are threatening to make you meet them in real life!
*points authoritatively at floor in front of concrete and self
- Nairn0
I was avoiding that thread so I wouldn't go down the road of making a promise I might break.
But I have 'diarised' it and am planning on popping down - I'm just not saying as much, y'know?
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- Concrete0
lol at ginger Dave Grohl
- paraselene0
is that that promise keepers picture again? if so, i'm not clicking the link. you look like richard james in that picture...
:l
- ********0
I'm not sure that flat is worth what you're paying para..
If it was inclusive, maybe. But for a 1 bed of that size, I think you should have been looking at about 200 less.
- paraselene0
erm... maybe in gipsy hill...
;)
- ********0
In Gipsy Hill it would be £600 - not £800 as I'm suggesting.
- Nairn0
From squatting to £800 a month in rent, Para?! You're either doing very well for yourself or are perilously fixated on central London.
Christ that's a lot of moolah for an ex-LA house - say it ain't so...
- paraselene0
lol it's actually £1000!
and it's my better half who was the squatter and is also unusually tight. so if he thinks it's a steal, it's a steal.