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Another take on 'affordability'.
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How odd.
I love London. Great city.0 -
I'm with sjay on this.
Why would anyone want to go there to live like that?
I agree. Shudder.How odd.
I love London. Great city.
Me too, but you gotta admit, living the studio-in-Zone-6 lifestyle isn't really attractive, is it? If I were to live in London, I'd want to live in London.Get to 119lbs! 1/2/09: 135.6lbs 1/5/11: 145.8lbs 30/3/13 150lbs 22/2/14 137lbs 2/6/14 128lbs 29/8/14 124lbs 2/6/17 126lbs
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Yeah, but could you live there?How odd.
I love London. Great city.
< I see I am assuming here you don't live in a city anyway...
I just think of everyone living like me unless they point out otherwise. Probably people from cities assume everyone else lives in cities? Or maybe its just me 
...time for bed... :A > We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
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I agree. Shudder.
Me too, but you gotta admit, living the studio-in-Zone-6 lifestyle isn't really attractive, is it? If I were to live in London, I'd want to live in London.
The advantage of zone-6 living is you get the countryside and are within commuting distance of the centre for work/ culture...
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The advantage of zone-6 living is you get the countryside and are within commuting distance of the centre for work/ culture...
studio living is what makes me shudder.
I concur.
Get to 119lbs! 1/2/09: 135.6lbs 1/5/11: 145.8lbs 30/3/13 150lbs 22/2/14 137lbs 2/6/14 128lbs 29/8/14 124lbs 2/6/17 126lbs
Save £180,000 by 31 Dec 2020! 2011: £54,342 * 2012: £62,200 * 2013: £74,127 * 2014: £84,839 * 2015: £95,207 * 2016: £109,122 * 2017: £121,733 * 2018: £136,565 * 2019: £161,957 * 2020: £197,685
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Two words.
Wedding.
Divorce :eek:Total 'Failed Business' Debt £29,043
Que sera, sera.
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Will you find a flat for less than £500 pm there (in an area where you don't have to be black belt to safely make it from front door to bus stop) ? :cool:
My area a 1 bed flat (not studio) is about the same cost....no, it's not Kensington but no worse than many towns in UK. 10 min walk to station and 20 mins to central London.
The suburbs are like small towns all around the centre.0 -
I'm with sjay on this.
Why would anyone want to go there to live like that?
Where i'm from, most people who go to London are either greedy or desperate and most end up back home.
What about those that grew up there? We are nice, very nice.:o
I love the energy of Central London. I am deff not mad about the suburbs though + now the kids are bigger (and may leave one day ) I would swap our family home for a flat in central London (but being greedy), not until I can afford something by the sea at the same time.0 -
Yeah, but could you live there?
< I see I am assuming here you don't live in a city anyway... I just think of everyone living like me unless they point out otherwise. Probably people from cities assume everyone else lives in cities? Or maybe its just me ...time for bed... :A >
I could and I did. Born and bred a Londoner - and though I live now just beyond zone 6, = in the country, as silvercar says (I'm in that bit of country silvercar's near) I still really, really miss the city.
I'd love to live back in London - but (a) it's too expensive, and (b) kids' schools, friends etc are all here. So we're here for now.
You can take the girl out of the city; but not the city out of the girl.
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