Clapham, fully furnished for £500

That's just disgusting. The landlord should be pulled up on this and given a right (big hairy ones) *******ing.
 
llamadal said:
nice for a weekend, but yes, it's crap. I'm only here for work, but anyone who thinks it's a great city has obviously never travelled.
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I recently lived in Oslo for 18 months which if you believe Reddit and UN charts then Norway is the greatest place on earth. London is vastly superior.
 
I'd pay £500 a month for that....

Oh wait... I have a mortgage on a 4 bedroom detached house in what's touted to be the best place to live in the UK for £35 more a month than that....
 
anything I don't mind said:
I used to house share with spanish girls who worked in retail and they were on minimum wage they went back to Spain after 1 year because it was not worth it money wise.
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It rather depends what you're looking for and they might have been here to experience London for a year but yes, of course, London is likely to be difficult to live in at minimum wage unless you're being subsidised (living with parents or similar) so I'm not surprised it wasn't a long term option for them.

llamadal said:
nice for a weekend, but yes, it's crap. I'm only here for work, but anyone who thinks it's a great city has obviously never travelled.
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I think it's a pretty great city but nowhere is without problems - the question is whether the disadvantages outweigh the benefits for you. Presently the benefits make it worth me living here but even if they didn't I don't think crap is a sensible description. There's a good reason why London is by a significant margin the most populous city in the UK and viewed as a desirable location by people around the World and that's not because it's crap - it might not be somewhere you enjoy, lots of people hold that opinion but it's an amazing city in many ways.

Just out of interest where should I travel to in order to experience great cities?
 
maccapacca said:
It's a lump of coal, you obviously live in an ex mining town.
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I don't...

I live in the "Gateway to the Dales" but thanks for asking...

semi-pro waster said:
Just out of interest where should I travel to in order to experience great cities?
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It's not really something you can "travel" to experience unfortunately.

London is great for visitors and no so good to live in. Just traveling to a city gives you no real benchmark on what it's actually like to really live there.
 
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Deathjester said:
An ancient castle, great transport links and low crime: Skipton in North Yorkshire is named the best place to live in Britain
here and Here.
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Grew up (and the family home is only couple of miles away) near there, nice place, but I think a london hipster or yuppy looking for a night life will hate it. Would love to move back to the area if it wasn't for the lack of any good jobs (but you could say that about the north in general.

Still 5 miles down the road in stark contrast in Keighley scum town of the north, the difference is quite funny. A slough and Windsor of the north.
 
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