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cheapest areas to rent?

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  • Sammz
    Sammz Posts: 3,406 Forumite

    The first and third of those I wouldn't go near. Don't know the area of the second one.
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  • mitchaa
    mitchaa Posts: 4,487 Forumite
    Yeah, there are plenty of rough parts resembling Beirut in Aberdeen just like i suppose there are in any major UK city.

    You get what you pay for, and for something decent around here its likely to cost you ITRO £750-850 for a 2bed flat.

    Aberdeen is nothing special, but yet its rental market is incredibly strong as the landlords know the students and offshore workers will pay this kind of money.
  • *hellie*
    *hellie* Posts: 32 Forumite
    We pay £550 a month for a 2 bed flat in Portsmouth. No garden, one double bedroom and one single.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    *sigh* DH pays £400 pcm for a monday-friday room in Zone three.

    Bonuses are no hassels and super landlady, great rail link to London Bridge.

    Downsides are paying that little bit more for a zone three travel card that he only uses one most days (usually taxis home at night) and would ideally have been a little bit closer to work, but seriously nitpicking there.
  • morg_monster
    morg_monster Posts: 2,392 Forumite
    We live in WC1 (Bloomsbury).

    We pay under market rent, I think. By quite a lot!

    *sigh*
    am jealous. I LOVE Bloomsbury, it is by far my favourite part of this city. I work near Euston and am around there quite a lot with one thing and another near the Brunswick Centre and Coram's Fields. I know it's cheesy, but there's just such a lovely vibe round there, with the mix of people, and the parks and old buildings and all the history. Would be happy to live in a studio flat there with OH and us both walk to walk every day for the same we pay in Balham... unfortunately he doesn't feel the same way, and nor does all my stuff...
  • wild666
    wild666 Posts: 2,181 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    I am paying £425 for a one bed place just outside Leeds, the living and kitchen area are one but the bedroom and bathroom are separate whatever you call it it suits my needs and has off road parking at the back. :j:j
    Someone please tell me what money is
  • n i thought my rent was high lol geeeeeeeez i not moan any more lol why do you think it varies so much? greedy landlords or living?
  • borosteve_2
    borosteve_2 Posts: 520 Forumite
    My rent for my 1 bed flat in Hitchin Herts was £575 p.c.m in 2005.
    Now I'm in Scotland my mortgage on my 3 bed house works out cheaper.
    You can't go wrong with carpet bombing...
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    *sigh* DH pays £400 pcm for a monday-friday room in Zone three.

    Could he not rent closer in and save on the travel?
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    *sigh*
    am jealous. I LOVE Bloomsbury, it is by far my favourite part of this city. I work near Euston and am around there quite a lot with one thing and another near the Brunswick Centre and Coram's Fields.

    I love the area - we take our son to Coram's Fields a lot, he loves it.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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