Clapham, fully furnished for £500
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God, don't even get my started on Keighley. It's awful!! (For Awful read "Probably the worst place to live in the known universe".)
I know what you mean in terms of jobs, although there are good jobs in Leeds, and it's not too bad of a commute. I used to work in Leeds until I got a job in Ripon.
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yer its dull but i rather live there than some of the **** holes stab fests I've had to live in over the years, Stoke on Trent, Bolton, Dundee (to a point), Slough.but skiptons a ****hole?
its literally a place to go and die of boredom.
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I would like to move Cornwall eventually. Just wonder what kind of work is available there, not looked in to it yet.
I don't like cities in general. Most of the ones I've been to I wouldn't live in, apart from maybe San Francisco, Amsterdam, Berlin and Reykjavik. Certainly wouldn't live in London again - spent 6 months there and that was 5 too many. Nice for a weekend though, and you can't argue with the sheer amount of cultural things to do.
Luckily I live in the happiest place in the country
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Blanketly London (670 sqm) to you is a dump full stop. Yet you live in the nicest place in the world and 5 miles away is the "Probably the worst place to live in the known universe". Great argument.
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10 miles away, and that's plenty far enough for me not to have much to do with it.
Also, I never said that London was a dump, I also said it was a nice place to visit but not a great place to live.
Same type of work as elsewhere, just less of it, and paid about 30% less than the UK average.
A lot of seasonal stuff, as you might expect. Cooking, cleaning, security.
A lot of carers since a lot come here to retire and never leave.
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May well be... still damned cheeky tho...
If it was they'll likely be caught out by this and maybe lose their tenancy.
And the story turns out to be almost certainly fake.
It raises a valid point that the housing market in London is such a complete wild west free for all run by bottom-feeding hobbyist landlords that most people believe it.
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The article you've linked said:
So it could be, or it might not be.... another useful article.
yup I mentioned this earlier as I did sublet a box room for a few years in London... Plenty of people do that sort of thing - while I wouldn't want to sublet a sofa space for a few weeks or a cupboard under the stairs it certainly does seem to happen on sites like gumtree and there are plenty of backpackers willing to pay.
500 a month is a bit steep - then again we sublet the small box room for 300 a month and had several dozen e-mails inquiring about it within a day of posting the advert so probably could have charged more (which we didn't do as subletting it had already brought our rent for quite large rooms down to 400 a month)
