Renting in London

Ntsn

Hello all.

If you would be lovely enough to help with my current dilemma that would be lovely. Please and thank you.

I have just got a new job in London (Liverpool street) and honestly, accommodation is the most important thing for me, while London has lots to offer in the size of shoe boxes and single rooms... I’d rather not paying 700-900 on a pigs hole.

Solution! ( so I think, do tell me if I am wrong)

Watford is bursting with amazing properties with large room shares at reasonable prices. I have seen one I like for £550. I worked out that travel would cost around £15a day( railcard for the train (20 min journey) makes it £12; then A bus from Euston to Liverpool Street £1:50 each way £3. = £75 a week < £300 a month. Plus rent (550-650) what I am willing to pay rent wise in Watford.

Am I over complicating it all? I just cannot bare the rooms in London, how people manage I don’t know. I would spend a lot of my time in my room therefore it must be decent at the very least.

Another point is bathrooms, London properties have horrible bathrooms ( that’s where you clean, it cannot look like a sewer) especially when paying near enough a grand.

Hope you can all help.

Please ignore my ignorance to the way of life in London. Just trying to gauge whether if it’s the norm.

Many thanks

ThemeOne

Yes many people who work in central London prefer to live further away to get nicer accommodation for their money, so you are not making an unusual choice.

Provided you're up for the commuting and have done your sums there should be no problems.

AdrianC

It's a wonder nobody's ever thought of it before.

Is it the norm? You'll find out on the platform at 7am.

bouicca21

Having to change at Euston for anything, let alone a bus, will drive you crazy. Have you ever seen Euston and the traffic round it in the rush hour? You would be better off looking for a room somewhere on a line that goes direct to Liverpool Street.

silvercar

If I was looking for a commute out of Liverpool Street, the first place I looked wouldn't be somewhere that trains into Euston!

Commuting from Liverpool Street would be the answer, Watford may be OK to live in, but that commute will be a pain in rush hour. Find somewhere that has a train service directly into Liverpool Street.

That bus journey for £1.50 is taking 45 minutes in rush hour, I just checked on the citymapper app, the tube at £2.40 takes 20 minutes. Both a lengthy time onto your journey.

ThemeOne

Agreed - for journey convenience the OP would be better off looking somewhere like Romford or Brentwood, but I assumed he/she knows Watford isn't the only place on the fringes of London where your money goes a bit further.

Lunchbox

That bus journey takes an hour or more each way in rush hour. Sitting in stationary traffic for that long every day, after a crowded train journey would become intolerable.

confusedftb

look for something on the hammersmith and city line or disctrict line, towards the east side.

East London is cheap and you should find something cheaper than £700 for sure, for a good sized room, all inclusive (bills), offcourse zone 3 onwards

davidmcn

Lunchbox wrote: »

That bus journey takes an hour or more each way in rush hour.

In which case surely the money-saving (and quicker / more healthy) option is to walk it instead.

bouicca21

davidmcn wrote: »

In which case surely the money-saving (and quicker / more healthy) option is to walk it instead.

It may be quicker but as one of the most polluted bits of London, it ain’t going to be healthy.

On second thoughts it won’t be quicker either.

davidmcn

bouicca21 wrote: »

On second thoughts it won’t be quicker either.

2.9 miles according to Google. I'd certainly walk that in under an hour, I'll accept that not everyone will.

But yes, if you can choose to live anywhere then why opt for one which takes you into the wrong terminus.