Looking to houseshare in London

[keb302]

Hello! My husband and I are a professional married couple with a toddler and lovely, child-friendly cat who are looking for a like-minded family (a couple or a single parent family) to houseshare with in North London (near Camden- we can be flexible regarding location).

My husband works full time as a manager in care, and I am finishing up my master's degree and will be re-entering the workforce within the next few months. We are looking to share a 2 or 3 bedroom house (depending on how big the rooms are) with a garden. We have no specific move in date in mind, as we believe it's quite important that we not feel rushed in finding compatible housemates.

About us: My husband and I both have had positive experiences with flatsharing in the past and think it would be nice (and economical!) to share with another family in an area of London that we love. We have pretty quiet lives- On work day evenings we will watch movies, cook a nice meal, and enjoy a glass or two of wine, and on the weekends we like taking our son out to parks and museums. We are tidy, but not neat-freaks, and good at respecting other peoples' space.

Our ideal housemates would have a child around our son's age (21 months) and a similar, gentle approach to parenting (no angry shouting, spanking, letting child cry alone in a playpen for hours and hours on end- that sort of thing). But any couple (or single parent) with an older or younger child would be great too.

Please feel free to get in touch! Thanks.

[hollyharrison92]

Hello! It's so nice to see your post and know we're not the only people thinking this would be a great idea.

Me and my partner are not parents yet. I'm 12 weeks pregnant at the moment and our baby is due on the 8th of September.
My partner is currently waiting to hear back from a PhD application and if he's successful we will be looking for accommodation in London. The Camden area would be suitable for us as he would be going to UCL. London accommodation is too expensive for us to afford to rent our own flat there and we've both enjoyed house-sharing too when we were at university together.

I am 22 and he is 32, we are friendly and easy-going people, and like you, tidy but not neat-freaks. We like to get outdoors, now and then we enjoying eating out, we love our food but not amazing cooks, although I love to bake sweet things, but I'm learning how to cook healthily now that we've got a little one coming! We enjoy a good movie, and the odd drink too (of course not for me right now though!).
I completely share your ideals on parenting, we're both gentle, level-headed and loving people and that's how we'll be as parents and the most important thing about our house-mates would be to have this in common.
I would be staying at home full time with our baby. It's possible at some point I could babysit your son if you needed. As I've never been a mum before I don't know what it's going to be like though I will have my hands full with just our little one at first. Looking into the future when he or she turns around 3 or 4 and is going to nursery I think I'd like to take on part-time work.

Of course we don't know for certain if he will be accepted for this PhD so it's really early days. I'm trying to be organized and planning quite far ahead. But I just thought I'd get in touch to show our interest.