Could you live in an office

jsmoke

jsmoke

jsmoke

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Was having a look at prices, one was 200pcm, and looks to me pretty spacey, about the size of a 3/4 bedroom flat what is to stop you living in it, would there be t & c against this.
 
I considered this for a while last year. There is office/industrial space/units around me to rent for under £1k pa. That plus a gym membership and there's not much else I'd need. I suppose it would have been easier to get away with while I was doing freelance work, now someone might notice only being there at night time..
 
Yup, as said, T&Cs will be against it. Plus the 200pcm will be exclusive of VAT and you'll only be able to live on food that can be boiled in a kettle or microwaved. But I'm guessing if you're thinking of this as an idea you probably already do :p.
 
Who'd know? Just register yourself as a sole trader and sell some ebay stuff from the premises. You could still have furniture and a TV etc.

Source - film and TV
 
There was a programme on TV recently about crane drivers. These guys live all over the country and work anywhere they're sent. Sometimes they have to go to HQ for a while (e.g. for training and assessments etc), what a lot of them did was live in their cars at the HQ car park. Typically a car would be a people carrier with the rear seats removed and a mattress put in instead (a bit like what they did on Top Gear). I wonder if I could do that sometimes, you know live up North for the cheaper house prices and live in my car during the week.

At my office we have internet, showers, toilets, fresh drinking water, vending machines and it has 24/7 manned security. It's also on a secure site so no dogging. The only thing is that the crane drivers used to get power extension leads from the office to their cars so they could watch TV. Not sure that's possible at my office. Also probably breaks the terms of the lease so the 24/7 security would be a pain. Oh well.
 
scorza said:
It's also on a secure site so no dogging.
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So your work of the future does have a downside! ah ha!

I remember a program on the indian railway and they interviewed one bloke who worked in the uk for 6 months on a visa in a restaurant and then moved back to india for the rest of the 6 months to live very well given the exchange rate.
It is a cost saving measure to be sure and a interesting if disruptive way to live.
other examples are UK off shore workers living in South africa on their off weeks and then flying up to work for a few weeks and returning. no jet lag due to same time zone, much cheaper cost of living, sunshine etc.
 
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