Looking to rent a flat in London - please help and join the hunt if you want :)

pinkstarsx

I live about 10 minutes from Heathrow. Takes 30 minutes to get into London. Would you look at West London?
Our rent is 950pcm plus bills in a 2 bed 2 bathroom flat, very modern complex. Council Tax £150pcm.
1 bedrooms you could get around here from £700pcm.

czerniacha

thequant wrote: »

Ahh so you can't afford a place of your own where you live now, but have decided to move to London because "I can earn much more money then I do now ". But as your discovering, you can't afford down here aswell.

Thers a reason why rents and wages in London are higher, it's because they are purely a function of each other.

It's seem like that you are unable earn enough money for your given skillset and education. I would suggest you try upgrading these rather than uprooting yourself and moving across the country.

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OMG I didn't give you enough details to assume things like that!

I didn't say I can not afford a place where I live, I could easily but I choose to save LOADS of money atm instead... and I'd need to pay ca.850GBP/month for a nice 1 bed flat so I am happy to pay 300 more and move to London. Taking into account that I'll save about 250/month when I get rid of my car and will earn ca. 500/month more I think it's worth it...

And my OH works! He will still commute for a bit until he'll find a new job in London.

We also want to move to improve our social life, go to gigs, clubs etc. which we can't do where we live now.

And my skillset and education is fine, thank you. I am upgrading them all the time and I work really hard to achieve more in life. I work full time 52hours/week, I study HR Management through distance learning(abroad in my home country) and just finished 4th year(one more left to MA). I also regulary upgrade my qualifications in the job I am doing atm as I know I won't be able to earn more without doing it. So thanks, I don't sit on my as* dreaming that just because I move I'll have double what I have now.

Just asked for advice on flats/prices and not what to do in my life

czerniacha

westlondonbuyer wrote: »

I have an undergraduate and a postgraduate degree. I could have won a Nobel prize and there would still be no jobs in my home town - if you didn't work for your Dad, you worked in the soap factory.

OP, London is all about deferred gratification. You move here for work and for opportunities you don't have in your home town. You live in a flatshare, grit your teeth, work as hard as you can and save as much as you can.

Eventually you meet someone, who has hopefully been similarly prudent. You take your joint savings - and hopefully a few pay rises - and use them as a deposit on your first one-bed home, a little further out.

You carry on working hard and saving hard and chasing pay rises whilst living in your cramped one bed flat until you have kids, when you move out of London altogether.

The shoebox you had in the outskirts of London then ends up buying you something very nice indeed (more often than not, near your parents in the home town you couldn't wait to escape).

Saving money is my priority that's why I want to move. If we rented a flat here and I still needed my car I wouldn't be able to save the set amount of money. Whereas if we move, I'll sell my car and get better paid job I will be still saving the same and we'll have a nice place to live too

czerniacha

pinkstarsx wrote: »

I live about 10 minutes from Heathrow. Takes 30 minutes to get into London. Would you look at West London?
Our rent is 950pcm plus bills in a 2 bed 2 bathroom flat, very modern complex. Council Tax £150pcm.
1 bedrooms you could get around here from £700pcm.

west London is the area I'm interested in but it depend's how far out... I want to be able to cycle to work and have more or less good transport links to central london too...
can I ask where about are you? :A

diable

pinkstarsx wrote: »

I live about 10 minutes from Heathrow. Takes 30 minutes to get into London. Would you look at West London?
Our rent is 950pcm plus bills in a 2 bed 2 bathroom flat, very modern complex. Council Tax £150pcm.
1 bedrooms you could get around here from £700pcm.

Where exactly as it must be noisy and close to all the flight paths?

devotee

czerniacha wrote: »

west London is the area I'm interested in but it depend's how far out... I want to be able to cycle to work and have more or less good transport links to central london too...
can I ask where about are you? :A

I imagine that would be Hounslow or something like that?

If you want a really nice area, but a bit further out I'd suggest St Margarets and Twickenham, expensive to buy but cheaper to rent. St Margarets village is stunning, it's just opposite Richmond and train links to central London are good.

neverdespairgirl

westlondonbuyer wrote: »

OP, London is all about deferred gratification. You move here for work and for opportunities you don't have in your home town. You live in a flatshare, grit your teeth, work as hard as you can and save as much as you can.

I don't agree - I've always enjoyed living in London.

westlondonbuyer

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I don't agree - I've always enjoyed living in London.

No, don't get me wrong, I love living in London too. But there's a big trade-off - you get a great livelihood at the expense of your lifestyle.

When I left home for streets paved with gold, I didn't imagine myself in a tiny rented terrace with no garden in my late thirties, let me tell you:D

This house (which actually I love) would cost nigh on £1m to buy - you could literally buy the manor house in the village I grew up in for that kind of money. But, both my husband and I would be unemployed

mazy_m

Hey OP i'm sure you'll find somewhere...I lived in North London until I went to uni and lived in Liverpool I loved it there so much I never wanted to leave but alas there were no jobs so moved back to London when I found a decentish job...at first I hated having to live in a small dingy studio (but has a fab garden!!) when I had a massive flat in Liverpool for cheaper than I pay now...but after a year i've actually managed to get out of most of my debt.....so can now start saving...wooo...I say deffo do it but the idea of a flatshare is great...if you can find some like minded people who are nice then it's ready made friends!!

Hopefully next year me and my OH are looking to move out of where we are and find the same for a flatshare...it's a shame you're not thinking of North London lol!!

Don't be put off by some responses it's a great idea as there are more jobs here than some other areas but do make sure you find a job first or it can be a lonely place!

Maz x

neverdespairgirl

westlondonbuyer wrote: »

No, don't get me wrong, I love living in London too. But there's a big trade-off - you get a great livelihood at the expense of your lifestyle.

When I left home for streets paved with gold, I didn't imagine myself in a tiny rented terrace with no garden in my late thirties, let me tell you:D

This house (which actually I love) would cost nigh on £1m to buy - you could literally buy the manor house in the village I grew up in for that kind of money. But, both my husband and I would be unemployed

I grew up in London, so my parents and siblings are close by, as well as my OH and our son.

I don't think my lifestyle suffers. Sure, for the same money, I'd be living in a palace somewhere else, compared to being in my early 30s and about to move into a 3 bed flat with a tiny, tiny courtyard garden.

But there is more to lifestyle than the actual place you sleep in. London's exciting, and wonderful.