Starting new job in a new city in 8 days time no place to stay urgent advice

tawse57

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Flat or house-sharing or becoming a lodger are the only sensible options. Look for shares for professional, working people rather than students. Start by doing the commute while you're looking. Getting job of almost any kind in the current economic climate is a miracle but you seem to want to talk yourself out of it before you've even started. Sacrifices have to be made so I think you'd better start making some.

+1

There might be someone at your new job who is looking for a lodger.

I would be very wary of signing a lease in the current economic climate, especially when starting a new job.

The company might announce massive redundancies the day you start, or you might hate the job or they might hate you. If you lose your job once you have signed a lease on a place to live then you will be doubly !!!!ed more than you are now.

Millions of Brits do 2 hour commutes either way daily - one of the stresses of working in modern Britain.

Did you tell us which town you are going to work in - some of us might live there?

tawse57

CLAPTON wrote: »

there seem to be lots and lots of things you don't want to do

commuting for a fews weeks or so doesn't seem unreasonable
or getting B&B for a few weeks

Big sense of entitlement from Britain's graduates generally nowadays - they expect everything handed to them on a plate for nothing.

They have grown up in an era of plenty and easy credit and have no idea of the gathering economic storm. It will be a shock for most of them.

This guy gets a job and prefers to go off on holiday before working out the nitty gritty.

PasturesNew

What I'd do is look at weekly commuting in the first instance, until I got to know the local area. Find a cheap B&B, stay 4 nights a week.

Go onto the Mon-Fri lodger sites and be a lodger 4 nights a week.

Both the above are low commitment routes.

Then, once you've been in the job a few days/weeks, you'll get to find your way around and look at stuff. Somebody at work might even know a private landlord or something.

ch1954

The other option you could look at is a Holiday let. You could probably get a good rate for an extended stay now the season's now over.

PasturesNew

Also, don't forget camping .... plenty of people are still going on holidays for a few more weeks. It's cheap!

tawse57

PasturesNew wrote: »

Also, don't forget camping .... plenty of people are still going on holidays for a few more weeks. It's cheap!

The other thing that is increasingy common is staying in a camper van.

Around the new Olympic build there are plenty of caper van parks now where people working in London park up during the week.

I think the UK has messed up big time in not just millions of having having an enormously stressful commute but in the expense of doing so and the cost to our health.

Emmzi

YMCA? worth a go for a week while you look esp in london. Youth hostel also.

Running_On_Empty

Commuting is a mindset. Set the alarm for 5.30am, get up, bathroom stuff, breakfast stuff, out of the door.
For seven years I did a 150 mile round trip daily and I was up at 5.30am and back home at 6.40pm.
You get used to it and this may be your best option initially until you can get a room somewhere closer perhaps through spareroom.com
http://www.spareroom.co.uk/

martindow

I would go for B and B initially so you have time after work to get to know the town and look for a house share or whatever. Although commuting if obviously feasible you will have no opportunity looking for somewhere to stay.

missile

1 hour 20 min commute is no big deal many have to do that and more.

When I was at uni I spent every holiday working just to get by. After I got a full time job, I had another working nights and weekends.






Holidays were something other people had.