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foot long subbacultcha
20:55 / 07.07.05
Anyone looking for a place to live in north London? We have a room in our flat available on the 23rd. It's 110 pounds per week plus council tax plus bills. There are four people sharing the flat ten minutes casual walk from Highbury Islington tube station. We're right by the Canonbury silver link stop. If anyone's interested, please send me a private message!
 
 
Jub
07:03 / 17.05.06
My friend is looking for a lovely new flatmate to move in with her and two boys for their spacious and sociable 4-bedroom flatshare in Kilburn. There is a comfortable, sunny room available from early June in Callcott Road, London NW6. Rent is £473.77 pcm (bills included), which really is an absolute bargain.

The flat is on the fourth floor of an attractive Victorian Mansion block - with great views - a stone's throw away from the Kilburn High Road (but far enough away for it to be nice and quiet!).

There are some great shops and pubs nearby and the popular Tricycle Theatre and cinema is literally at the end of their road. West Hampstead, Maida Vale and Hampstead are also nearby. Kilburn also has really good transport links:
the Jubilee line, Bakerloo line, Silverlink and numerous buses running directly into central London.

If you are interested, or know anyone else who might be, please PM me and I will put you in touch.
 
 
Jub
15:07 / 18.05.06
bumpage.
 
 
Jub
11:14 / 04.07.06
Hi everyone, my mate is looking again - same flat, different room:

We have a small but cosy room in our spacious Kilburn flat to rent. It is an absolute bargain at £300pcm, including all bills - you can't really argue with that. It's a sociable, easygoing flatshare for four, just off the Kilburn High Road.

Please PM me for more.
 
 
stabbystabby
11:55 / 04.07.06
will you pay relocation costs? ;p
 
 
Whisky Priestess
15:34 / 04.07.06
Please yes me yes please can I move in ASAP please I am very nice, clean, adorable quiet person with no previous, pick me pick me!

Seriously though, when's a good night to look round?
 
 
Jub
15:40 / 04.07.06
consider yourself PMd!
 
 
Jub
11:23 / 18.07.06
Hello all,

My mates have another room going - same block as above but different flat. She writes:

We need a housemate to move in to a spacious and sociable 3-bedroom flatshare in Kilburn. There is a huge, sunny double room available now. Rent is only £400 pcm with bills each month coming in at around £80. You will be sharing with two lovely ladies.

The flat is on the ground floor of an attractive Victorian Mansion block - on a lovely street - really close to Kilburn High Road (but far enough away for it to be nice and quiet!) and 5 mins from the tube station.

There are some great shops and pubs nearby and the popular Tricycle Theatre and cinema is literally at the end of our road. West Hampstead, Maida Vale and Hampstead are also nearby. Kilburn also has really good transport links: the Jubilee line, Bakerloo line, Silverlink and numerous buses running directly into central London.
 
 
Jub
11:23 / 18.07.06
oops. please PM me if you or any of your mates are interested.
 
 
gingerbop
23:57 / 26.08.06
Sigh. I know it's boring, but currently necessary.

I'm looking for a room somewhere that's easily accessible to Old St from- possibly Hackney, Bethnal Green, or anywhere on the northern line that's not way too far out, and under £80/week (£340/m).

Not that fussy about the room, as long as it's in a fairly sociable flat- there's nothing I hate more than everyone coming in and staying in their room all night.

I'm in my last year of circus school, but I'd like to think I'm a fairly pleasant student. And I like playing games. A lot.

Does anyone know of anywhere going? I come back to London on the 11th September, but I could send my current flatmate to look before then.

Cheers peeps. x
 
 
Alex's Grandma
10:24 / 27.08.06
Bop, have you tried MoveFlat?
 
 
Ex
16:37 / 27.08.06
And I like playing games. A lot.

Board games? Or... mind games?

(Sorry, I have no room.)
 
 
Axolotl
17:01 / 27.08.06
It's kind of thread-rotty, but in nearly all my flatshares I've always found huge amounts of sneering and resistance to the suggestion of boardgames. Which is weird because as a cheap night in they're diffilcult to beat.
Maybe I've just had lame flatmates.
 
 
gingerbop
19:26 / 27.08.06
Moveflat and Gumtree are all well and good, but it's really difficult as I won't be down for another couple weeks, and all the rooms there are for this week. I was just sniffing out to see if there are any ones round here that are coming up around that time.

I find it quite upsetting that I'm not very good at Scrabble. However, I did find that I'm far better than my usual opponent at Othello (though I've never seen anyone else playing Othello, so doubt it's a very common game), and most card games except Iranian ones. I like winning. A lot.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
08:07 / 29.08.06
You can probably sofa-surf for a week or two while looking for a flat - or do you have a shiload of stuff you have to move all at once?
 
 
gingerbop
13:31 / 29.08.06
It's a bit complicated, but is actually ok.

Because I left london really quickly cause my dad was really ill, I left it all in my old flat. I have a friend with a spare room who said I could stay there while I find somewhere. But I'm being sent off to a circus convention on the 17th, and when I get back, I'm straight back into college, so am trying to get it sorted out so it's all done for when I get back.
 
 
Jub
15:58 / 21.09.06
Another flat (rather than room) going for rent...

Crouch End (Shepherd's Hill) - Near Highgate tube (northern line) 2 bedroom flat (one large double and one small double) with 20 sq ft private decked roof terrace with great views over London.

£300 a week / £1300 a month.

The landlord is my boss and he's a decent enough chap - Please PM me if interested.
 
 
Spaniel
17:26 / 21.09.06
Jesus the fuck, that's a lot of money.

You live there, Jub? If so, are you like Mr Supercash?
 
 
Olulabelle
17:46 / 21.09.06
No it's a big scam to get someone else to pay his rent as well, thereby allowing him to a rent free life.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
20:52 / 21.09.06
I dunno, if there were two couples and one pair didn't mind having a smaller room (small double = double bed squeezed in with 1 ft room round three sides, right?) it wouldn't be too bad on a per person basis...
 
 
Jub
06:56 / 22.09.06
No, not Mr Supercash - but my boss is, and he's renting out his highgate flat as he's already bought another house elsewhere. Apparently it is really nice, but does seem quite a lot agreed. Suppose it depends what you're after.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
09:15 / 22.09.06
roof terrace ... dribble ....
 
 
pointless & uncalled for
09:35 / 22.09.06
20 sq ft of roof terrace is fairly small, barely enough for two chairs.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:41 / 22.09.06
1300 a month for two bedrooms in Highgate, depending on how close it is to the Tube, is not really that much, is it? I'm paying less than that, but I am living off the grid. Like Reacher.
 
 
pointless & uncalled for
09:57 / 22.09.06
Given that a single person can expect to pay about half that for a single bedroom anywhere within zones 2-3 for a "nice" flat in a reasonable area then no, not really. I would imagine that a modest earning "professional" couple could afford that by themselves without being financial crippled.
 
 
Spaniel
15:25 / 22.09.06
I appeciate that it's perfectly normal for Highgate properties to cost that much, but, fuck me, the most I've ever earnt is 25k - 650 quid a month would've been about half my wage packet, an entirely nofun percentage.

I should stress that I do like to live in nice, lovely spaces.
 
 
Axolotl
16:37 / 22.09.06
Just when I was considering moving back down south this thread reminds me why I moved away from London.
£300 a week seems insane to me: most people I know pay less than that a month up in Glasgow.
 
 
Jub
09:55 / 28.09.06
Okay - nother whole flat here:

On the first floor of a Victorian terrace, this bright and spacious, contemporary designed, newly refurbished flat is conveniently positioned on the West Hampstead / Kilburn borders. The flat comes fully furnished to the highest standards. 5 mins to Kilburn Park tube, 10 mins to West Hampstead tube & loads of buses less than a minute away (98, 189,139, 328, 31, 316, 206 etc). Cash point, supermarket and many other high street shops minutes away. More bars, pubs and restaurants within walking distance than you'll ever mange to visit in a year!
- 2 double bedrooms
- Newly fitted modern kitchen diner with table and chairs, dishwasher, double oven, microwave, washer/dryer and lots of storage
- Newly fitted bathroom with thermostatic shower, double ended bath, designer sink & lots of storage
- Extremely spacious lounge with ornamental fireplace, 2 large leather sofas, large windows & high ceilings
- Parking available outside with permit
- Would ideally suit a couple. Available from early November. A snip at 325 per week.


PM me if interested and I'll send you my mate's number.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
10:38 / 28.09.06
So £325 a month for two couples sharing and £700 a month for an actual couple.

Fuck that's steep. Especially for Kilburn.
 
 
Smoothly
10:49 / 28.09.06
You mean just over £700 a month for two couples, or nearly a grand and a half for one couple. Kilburn is quite expensive these days, innit.
 
 
Jub
10:57 / 28.09.06
whaaa? It's 325 per week. That's it. Not each! 325 a week for the flat, no matter how many people live there.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:33 / 28.09.06
Which is pricey, but not impossibly so, for NW London...

Which is, as Ariadne says, mentalised.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:34 / 28.09.06
Actually, for _2_ double bedrooms... two couples, £80/week... might get quite crowded, but not impossible...
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
11:40 / 29.09.06
OK, I'm returning briefly from my barbelith sabbatical as I need to find a new flatmate.

It's a double room in a big two-bedroom house in Dulwich, South East London, Zone 2. Two floors: Bedrooms and bathroom upstairs. Big living room and sizeable kitchen downstairs with washing machine, etc. Nice little garden out the back which is great in the summer.

15 minutes on the overground train into London Bridge. 10 minutes on the bus to Brixton. Close to Lordship Lane which is full of bars and restaurants and interesting little shops. Really nice area. Lots of parks, even some woodland in walking distance.

Rent is £450 pcm for the room. However, my girlfriend is thinking about moving in, which would bring the rent down to an outrageously cheap £300 per month. Which is probably the best bargain in town, really, as it's a great house in a great area.

You'll need to be in fulltime employment, in order to pass the agents credit cheques. Aside from that, I'm just looking for a flatmate who is easygoing and reasonably tidy.

Obviously, I get up to an awful lot of occult goings-on at this house, and there are little altars in the living room, etc. So I'm looking for a flatmate who is cool with that. You can be completely indifferent to it, assume that I'm just mad and just let me get on with it without interference. That seemed to work OK with the last flatmate, it's not too intrusive, you just have to not be freaked out by me pouring drinks at my little Voodoo altars and so on.

PM me for more details or a viewing.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
13:33 / 29.09.06
And another flatshare - this one from a friend of mine:

Anyone fancy moving to Brixton? Know anyone who might? My house (five minutes from Brixton tube) has two rooms that need people from the end of October.

THE PLACE

It's a 5-bedroom house with bathroom and separate wc/shower, huge sitting room with nice light, separate kitchen, back garden, storage area and wooden floors throughout. It doesn't really feel like a houseshare, as it's all scruffy antique furniture, fisheye mirrors, granny-embroidered cushions and mismatched Wedgewood crockery. Very warm and cosy.

There's no telly in the sitting room, but wifi broadband everywhere. There's a gratuitous '50s hand typewriter. There's geraniums. There's a herb garden. There's a drinks and guest linen cabinet. There's a massive black cat called Mr B. There's me (art bod stroke nerd stroke writer stroke whatever else I feel like), one Italian foodie and one French artist.

THE REST

I really like living in a cooperative-ish house, where we can share basic grocery bills, look after each other (and the cat), enjoy each others' company and not get offended if someone's working like mad and off the air for ages. And preferably where we split the cost of a cleaner.

I'm looking for interesting, nice, laid-back housemates who clean up after themselves and are at least up for not smoking in shared spaces. Gender, occupation, politics and sexuality are less important than eccentricity (of the being your own person sort, not the cook cabbage in your room in an electric kettle sort) and open-mindedness.

THE DAMAGE

The rooms vary quite a bit in size, so the rents are between £530 pcm inclusive for the huge room and £330pcm inclusive for the little ones. I haven't quite worked out who might fit where yet, so it's all very up for negotiation.

Again, there are two more spaces from the end of October. If you can think of anyone who might be interested please send them my way!


I've never been to this place, so viewing recommended. PM me if you're interested...
 
  

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