Ever get the feeling you’ll need to flash your passport as your train rattles across the boundary into the M25? If so, you’re not the only one. Londoners have been joking – or seriously suggesting – that their city should be its own state for donkey’s years! Why? Well, London might be the capital of the UK, but it doesn’t always feel …
Moving to London on your lonesome? Looking for a shared house to move into? … Nervous? No wonder. Finding your perfect flatshare can be a daunting experience. Especially when the demand for a reasonably-priced room with a nice group of non-nutters seems to far outweigh supply. So what’s a (temporarily) homeless hopeful to do? 1. Get back to them sharpish Great living arrangements …
Ah, living with friends. Surrounding yourself with the people in your life you rate the most. The one who are the most fun on a night, the ones you find yourself calling up whenever things go wrong, the ones that never fail to make you smile. You can’t think of anyone you’d like to sit up drinking with until the …
London is pricey. Really, really pricey. But that doesn’t mean you can’t live it up – it just means you have to be smart. Here’s how.
“Yes, Mr Stranger, I would love for you to load everything I own and value into your unmarked vehicle and speed off into the sunset without me,” is not a sentence that you probably say very often (we hope). But when it comes to moving house, it’s a leap of faith that most of us have to take.
If you’re moving to London and you’re not in line to inherit an oil field, the first question on your lips might well be: is there anywhere around here I can actually afford? Luckily, London is a big, big place, and there are still some boroughs where it’s possible to pick up a bargain when it comes to rent.
This week in London rental chaos, a group in Gypsy Hill tried to rent out a tent in their dining room for £550/month. A tent. For £550 per month. Yes, London, you’ve reached peak mental. The tent debacle might be enough make you laugh if the insanely-high-rents-for-tiny-spaces craze wasn’t enough to make you cry.
Just about everyone has at some point fought tooth and nail over their deposit. Sometimes, it seems your landlord is being straight-up mean. Other times, your mistakes might’ve put you on shaky ground.
Moving to London can be an unexpected culture shock, even if you’re coming from 50 miles away. It’s big, it’s loud, it has its own quirky way of doing things – and it can take some getting used to. To help you get your head around how Londoners think, here are seven things that don’t exist in their vocabulary.
Ever clicked on a Gumtree listing only to find that the £1500-a-month is for a parking space, not a flat? For all its charms, London is not a budget friendly place to live. And the closer you get to the centre, the more mind-boggling the prices become. So what’s a person to do? I mean, yeah, you could commute from …
