Moved to London yesterday and start my new job on Wednesday, Staying at my mates at the moment so I need to find a room, Ive realised it is actually proper expensive to live here, any advice in general would be great lads
London is expensive no doubt but youre salary should reflect that. i did not leave home untill i was 26 but you obvously dont have that option. the only thing i can suggest is to get hold of a tube map and look at flats in west/north west london area in Zone 4. the reason being living in zone 1 and 2 is a bloody rip off and 3 is pretty shocking too but Zone 4 is cheap and it only takes 30mins to get in the centre of london and having a tube map will help getting a place near a train station.
Where's your job? Start by planning your route to work, absolutely no point finding a place you like then finding you need to travel for hours a day. If I were you I'd get a bike and then you can cut your transport costs a lot. There'll still be times when you'll need to get a bus/train but every little helps.
^^ defo this. i live in zone 2 (lewisham, factfans) and the prices are nuts for accomodation but lewisham is a fair bit cheaper than other nicer areas like blackheath and the newly gentrified dulwich. ask people at work where they live and go from there
You've moved to london without realising its one of the most expensive places to live in the world ? Must be mad mate.
To put it into perspective (Although student accomodation isn't represntitive of actual living prices) the price hikes between london and the north, My mate who went to Manchester Met (Last year) paid £75 for the most basic accomodation, I know someone who goes to LSE and he paid £25 per night (£175 per week) and he SHARED a bedroom and then a kitchen/bathroom with the same ammount of people my mate at Manc Met did. The only reason I'd move to london would be if my salary was going to get me a decent place to live and then the spare cash to have a good social life in the capital, If you're gonna be on the breadline I'd seriously consider your original decision mate !!
Quote: nefc wrote in post #4^^ defo this. i live in zone 2 (lewisham, factfans) and the prices are nuts for accomodation but lewisham is a fair bit cheaper than other nicer areas like blackheath and the newly gentrified dulwich. ask people at work where they live and go from there
Its cheap because there is no bloody tube if crossrail runs near your area the price is going to shoot up
Quote: Ryan798 wrote in post #9london prices has put me off going uni there, even though i'm looking into oxford brookes, it's still 120 a room there!
What do you get for that though ?
Mine at Keele was 78 a week, i shared a kitchen and 2 showers/4 Toilets with 25 people, sounds grim but i had to wait for a shower about 10 times in a year and that was for 5 minutes at most, not all that bad. That was the cheapest, but it was basically in the middle of the countryside, so its not like its high land costs, My mate paid less for the same in central MCR. IMO My halls shouldn't of cost above 60.
My mrs paid 150 a week at worcester and that was fucking nice, electric doors, en suite, kitchen between 8, TV in kitchen, All nice, shiney and new.....Very very nice !!
What shocked me about my halls being the cheapest were the type of people in there, One lad went to Charterhouse school with Linekers son and Piers Morgans son !!
havent looked into it much, only just started applying and only done my back up uni and one prefered! but i dont think thats even en suite! but does inc food iirc
25 years today i moved out of london. ....took me 12 hours to get to brighton because it was the day after the great storm....
Eye's right, skin back tight, bollocks to the front, we're the boy's who make more noise when we're on the cunt, we're the riders of the night, and we'd rather fuck than fight, we're the riders of the Clock end Highbury
Quote: Ryan798 wrote in post #11havent looked into it much, only just started applying and only done my back up uni and one prefered! but i dont think thats even en suite! but does inc food iirc
Thats quite good then, although to be honest food isn't a massive expense unless you plan on eating like a king !! A lad i lived with had a full dinner every night, some sort of fresh meat with veg, then another lads mom, he was half thai, cooked him 3 months worth of evening meals and then froze them, he made my blood boil, ate like a fucking king every day !!
Quote: Ryan798 wrote in post #11havent looked into it much, only just started applying and only done my back up uni and one prefered! but i dont think thats even en suite! but does inc food iirc
Thats quite good then, although to be honest food isn't a massive expense unless you plan on eating like a king !! A lad i lived with had a full dinner every night, some sort of fresh meat with veg, then another lads mom, he was half thai, cooked him 3 months worth of evening meals and then froze them, he made my blood boil, ate like a fucking king every day !!
Quote: Ryan798 wrote in post #11havent looked into it much, only just started applying and only done my back up uni and one prefered! but i dont think thats even en suite! but does inc food iirc
Thats quite good then, although to be honest food isn't a massive expense unless you plan on eating like a king !! A lad i lived with had a full dinner every night, some sort of fresh meat with veg, then another lads mom, he was half thai, cooked him 3 months worth of evening meals and then froze them, he made my blood boil, ate like a fucking king every day !!
First year at uni, I would have a proper dinner every night. Mash potato, carrots, sasuages/pork chop/roast chicken lots of gravy etc or a fry up. I wouldn't eat untill at least 9 o clock either. It was all I knew and it makes me feel sick looking back (only 2 years ago).
Quote: Ryan798 wrote in post #11havent looked into it much, only just started applying and only done my back up uni and one prefered! but i dont think thats even en suite! but does inc food iirc
Thats quite good then, although to be honest food isn't a massive expense unless you plan on eating like a king !! A lad i lived with had a full dinner every night, some sort of fresh meat with veg, then another lads mom, he was half thai, cooked him 3 months worth of evening meals and then froze them, he made my blood boil, ate like a fucking king every day !!
First year at uni, I would have a proper dinner every night. Mash potato, carrots, sasuages/pork chop/roast chicken lots of gravy etc or a fry up. I wouldn't eat untill at least 9 o clock either. It was all I knew and it makes me feel sick looking back (only 2 years ago).
I was lazy for the first few weeks, Never once had a takeaway though, could knock up much better food for next to nothing in the time it took to decide what you wanted !! After the first few weeks I used to team up packet food with plenty of fruit and veg, so I'd have weird concoctions like chicken burgers and then a massive bowl of frozen mixed veg, got boring after the first semester then the second i was just lazy as fuck !! I had the same breakfast every single morning too, weetabix !! I got through a bag and a half of sugar in about 25 weeks, which shocked me to the point ive cut down on sugar drastically !!
A great thing about uni/living away is learning about cooking and how to eat. That might sound strange, but my eating pattern was awful. Skipping breakfast, and having 2 massive meals a day etc. Now I'm much better, the complete opposite infact and its been a big learning curve I guess. We used to have a cooking rota once a week between 4 of us where we'd knock up an ace meal, was always good fun and bit of friendly competition produced some cracking food.
Quote: nefc wrote in post #810 mins london bridge on train, run every five mins. 20 to charing cross. dlr runs to docklands. transport from lewisham is brilliant
its got much better over the years, that's for sure. For me I can get trains to LB or Victoria (both about ten to fifteen minutes) or an all night bus to kings cross/shoreditch/tottenham court road etc. There's no tube but peckham is going to be on the east london line from december so I expect my rent to go up accordingly.
Quote: nefc wrote in post #810 mins london bridge on train, run every five mins. 20 to charing cross. dlr runs to docklands. transport from lewisham is brilliant
its got much better over the years, that's for sure. For me I can get trains to LB or Victoria (both about ten to fifteen minutes) or an all night bus to kings cross/shoreditch/tottenham court road etc. There's no tube but peckham is going to be on the east london line from december so I expect my rent to go up accordingly.
have you been the begging bowl on bellenden road (a street name that always makes me smirk)? supposed to be ace. always rammo though
Quote: nefc wrote in post #810 mins london bridge on train, run every five mins. 20 to charing cross. dlr runs to docklands. transport from lewisham is brilliant
its got much better over the years, that's for sure. For me I can get trains to LB or Victoria (both about ten to fifteen minutes) or an all night bus to kings cross/shoreditch/tottenham court road etc. There's no tube but peckham is going to be on the east london line from december so I expect my rent to go up accordingly.
have you been the begging bowl on bellenden road (a street name that always makes me smirk)? supposed to be ace. always rammo though
No mate, can't keep track on what's coming and going around Bellenden - always seem to be new cafes/bars/restaurants.
^^ the pub over the road from it has a creche. there's a telly in the bar which just shows the creche. presumably it's for the parents in there - or maybe it's paedovision. oh no, a joke! quick, tell the individual
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