Random Questions: Living in london (finding somewhere)


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snaye
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10271 posts since 24/10/02

12 Aug 2013 21:46
Everyones really nice to Stoney as they think he's Mark Speights brother

R
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12883 posts since 17/5/03

12 Aug 2013 22:03
Easier said than done stoney for that exact reason. Deals like that seem to be so inaccessible nowadays to the public for obvious reasons. Not exactly my field but see quite a bit of it. About to get in to resi development though, really upset to be leaving my job.
blackbeltjones
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379 posts since 4/2/12

12 Aug 2013 22:04
velvet wrote: I'm the same really
Got 223 to spend but can't find anything
Wanna buy in south london as I work in Surrey (20/30 min train journey from vauxhall / clapham) and my gf works in tower hill

Looking at camberwell

Anyone got any advice of where to start looking?

what you looking for? new build or period? ex-council? denmark hill side of road is better but pricey. some decent victorian residential streets on the other side of the road near the green, mostly whole houses though. avoid anywhere around southampton way, coldharbour lane patchy, avoid loughborough junction. getting to vauxhall in a morning up camberwell new road can be grim - loads of buses but traffic's shit… all the time. camberwell's on the up, some good restaurants, art college up the road means students means bars means cheap good beer.
San
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10457 posts since 14/11/05

12 Aug 2013 22:05
Laughing out loud @ mark speight
rural
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16483 posts since 26/9/06

12 Aug 2013 22:10
Would definitely rather live in Camberwell over Pecknarm
Hello World
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12043 posts since 7/3/05

12 Aug 2013 22:11
I am leaning away from SE1 Sad Mortgage review meeting tomorrow, fingers crossed! Then I will know my budget.
blackbeltjones
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379 posts since 4/2/12

12 Aug 2013 22:13
Hello World wrote: yeah i have the entire SW from twickenham through to wimbledon and the quality is miles better than SE1 for around £30k less.

i do feel Im missing out, but then again 30 minutes on the train?

so why look central? and yes, you're missing out, but that's why sw is 30k less. that 30 min train journey is an excuse not to go out waiting to happen - get a taxi back to twickenham from central at 3am? good luck with that. if you want sw quality accommodation or north london location then don't look at se1 or south london, you'll just get pissed off wasting your time looking and end up resenting the place if you do buy there.

kingston is where old (white) londoners go to die.
rural
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16483 posts since 26/9/06

12 Aug 2013 22:14
Hello World wrote: I am leaning away from SE1 Sad Mortgage review meeting tomorrow, fingers crossed! Then I will know my budget.

Where you thinking of, South West?
rural
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16483 posts since 26/9/06

12 Aug 2013 22:15
blackbeltjones wrote:
Hello World wrote: yeah i have the entire SW from twickenham through to wimbledon and the quality is miles better than SE1 for around £30k less.

i do feel Im missing out, but then again 30 minutes on the train?

so why look central? and yes, you're missing out, but that's why sw is 30k less. that 30 min train journey is an excuse not to go out waiting to happen - get a taxi back to twickenham from central at 3am? good luck with that. if you want sw quality accommodation or north london location then don't look at se1 or south london, you'll just get pissed off wasting your time looking and end up resenting the place if you do buy there.

kingston is where old (white) londoners go to die.

Where should he look then?
blackbeltjones
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379 posts since 4/2/12

12 Aug 2013 22:19
rural wrote:
blackbeltjones wrote:
Hello World wrote: yeah i have the entire SW from twickenham through to wimbledon and the quality is miles better than SE1 for around £30k less.

i do feel Im missing out, but then again 30 minutes on the train?

so why look central? and yes, you're missing out, but that's why sw is 30k less. that 30 min train journey is an excuse not to go out waiting to happen - get a taxi back to twickenham from central at 3am? good luck with that. if you want sw quality accommodation or north london location then don't look at se1 or south london, you'll just get pissed off wasting your time looking and end up resenting the place if you do buy there.

kingston is where old (white) londoners go to die.

Where should he look then?

stay SW.
Ruben
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10775 posts since 2/7/03

12 Aug 2013 22:21
Speight Laughing out loud
R
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12883 posts since 17/5/03

12 Aug 2013 22:22
Live as central as possible if you're young IMO
Hello World
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12043 posts since 7/3/05

12 Aug 2013 22:30
If I worked central I would be there in a shot but I don't. Not planning on changing jobs soon but not giving up the London life to live in kent.

I can get somewhere nice and safe in the Kingston area for £250k that will do until life changes course, need around £350k to get what I want in central and that is not achievable right now, in 5 years sure.

When I lived in richmond I used to get taxis back from central and god knows where twice a week, usually cost <£100. That was in the good times though. Smiling
R
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12883 posts since 17/5/03

12 Aug 2013 22:32
R wrote: Live as central as possible if you're young IMO

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Razorlight123
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3112 posts since 13/1/10

17 Aug 2013 18:47
Was looking at the possibility of living in Camden Town for two weeks at £230 per week. But was offered a sub-let by this girl for £240 for 3 weeks as she's moving out of her place in Walworth. Walworth obviously makes more sense.

I'm going to look at her room tomorrow, my only issue is that she's sub-letting - although it's only a short period of time is there a possible potential to be fucked over by the Landlord?
Serbia
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4928 posts since 22/3/06

18 Aug 2013 03:32
as in walworth road? a sub let on walworth road, good luck with that
Razorlight123
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3112 posts since 13/1/10

19 Aug 2013 10:00
It's not on Walworth road exactly but nearby. A good few mins walk to Elephant and Castle went there yesterday, a typical student mess, but an all girls student flatshare.

Vazza
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4257 posts since 30/9/06

19 Aug 2013 10:02
Yeah, you can listen to their boyfriends rodgering them to an inch of their life everynight Cool
Razorlight123
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3112 posts since 13/1/10

19 Aug 2013 10:08
velvet
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9474 posts since 12/6/06

19 Aug 2013 11:15
missis keeps banging on about tulse hill (can get nice 2 bed for 225)

whats it like? will i get stabbed?