To ask you what you think about this cute flat I spotted for rent in North London?

[purplebush]

Isn't it lovely? And only £765 a month. BARGAIN!

They tidied it up beautifully for the photoshoot too.

www.primeukestates.co.uk/properties/riverside-road-london-n15/

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Well it has a washer. And a washer.

It's a poorly built gymbalow, isn't it?

It's no wonder it's a mess there's no room to move let alone to have any type of storage . Couldn't swing a cat in that!!!

While its insane when looking at the difference in house prices to for example were I live , I don't get the " look what you could get if you moved away from London " argument in terms of that being a viable option for everyone ? Loke some people do have to work there or it would just be a massive abandoned place

@nottheduchessofcambridge

But it has a bathroom AND a bedroom slash kitchen slash lounge! Less to tidy, less to heat. You can reach the fridge from your bed so no stubbing your toe on your late night walk to get cheese!

You’ve got yourself a find here OP

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I read your words as 'bedroom and slasher kitchen and slasher lounge!' Ba ha ha

@pickachew

Gymbalow 😂😬

It’s a shed. You could put another shed into the garden to make a lounge.

Yeah I don't see the point in spending too much time comparing. London has been way more expensive than most of the rest of the UK for 3 or 4 decades now.

And for the price of a 2 bed flat in my town, you could get two 3- bed houses in the north east.

It's all irrelevant really.

But this flat is quite something!!!

In Australia (where I live anyway) you'd be able to pay three mortgages with that!

Or rent a mansion by the sea.

@womanhuman

Put a shed in the garden to make a lounge!

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to be fair, some of it is cosmetic stuff that can be fixed within a few hours.
If I were a student in London right now, would take it I think. You guys need to wake up and look at the condos that appear on Pinterest. In New York etc. This is nothing that a little Pinterest couldn't fix. Thank god I am not a student in London anymore.

AjasLipstick
Where do you live in Australia? three mortgages for £765? Is that what you are saying?

Isn't that very cheap for London? It's right near the tube...i'd live there, could easily make it a lot nicer with cleaning and different furniture - and it's got a garden!

Don't know where all posters live who could get a house for that monthly rent, I live in Westcountry and rents are still ridiculous and have been for years.

We moved out of London 30 years ago and my DH took a new job as an engineer in Cornwall. Best thing we ever did. Ridiculous housing costs, incessant traffic and rubbish schools in the area we lived in. I love the city to visit as there is so much going on but could never live there again. Depends on your job though as many can't get the same type of job elsewhere. We were lucky to find reasonably well paid work in the West Country and could afford a 4 bed detached house in a nice area compared to the terraced 2 bed in a roughing area in Greater London.

You would think someone could tidy up that flat before taking photos. It looks like a bad conversion and no way would I pay £795 for it.

“Getting a job outside London isn't easy
The majority of the country manage it.

I suppose my genuine question is, What is worth staying in London for if you have to fork out a fortune to love in somewhere not very nice? And if the job was worth staying for, surely it’d pay well enough to get somewhere decent?
People get really defensive about London, bit I do t see the appeal of living somewhere where you can’t afford to do any of the many things on offer because you put all your money into ridiculous rental prices. Each to their own I guess

It's utterly depressing that landlords are offering this kind of property and being allowed to let them. People need affordable places to live and are being forced to take on shit holes like this because there are no other affordable options. It's a terrible state of affairs and seems to be getting worse and worse in London.

I was ready to berate you for clearly trying to get maximum exposure for your own, newly on the market, rental. Instead

If you worked nights and were a Marie Kondo type or a nun it might be useful. It does look like a converted outbuilding or a gymbalow.
The fact it has a partial share of bills suggests it's unofficial dodgy as fuck

It's like that episode of Gavin and Stacey where they view a flat and there's a shower attachment fitted under the kitchen sink!

Reminds me of the shed at dulwich but had a google and it’s actually better. Everyone seen the video for that, it highly amused me

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisor

Because it's an illogical argument . Sure at an individual level you could advise someone they may have a better life out of London . But everyone can't move out of London

The argument reminds me of when people come on here fed up of being on a low income and people say " get a better job then " it's illogical as everyone can't be in high paying job same as everyone can't just up and leave london . It doesn't work like that

Look at the ones on the same page...

The Wood Green one has an open plan living room/kitchen.

...so that would be ‘no living room, sofa in the kitchen facing the cabinets’

That can't be legal surely - it's a fucking garden shed??!

It's a shed or garage, badly (possibly illegally) converted into a bedsit.

The 'front door' quite possibly leads to a lean to 'entrance hall'. There are fence panels visible in the first picture and similar ones in the courtyard garden.

For that money, you could get somewhere nicer - like a room in a shared house. With actual windows.

That is an absolute disgrace. It's funny but also tragic as someone else said, a real sad picture of where the housing market is at. But I agree with the others that the "move out of London if you don't like it" argument is flawed. Firstly (again as others have pointed out) who's going to do all the retail/service/cleaning/ other min wage jobs if everyone moved out? And how are people doing those jobs meant to afford to move out? Perhaps they grew up there in a deprived area and haven't got the requisite skills or finances to get a better job, and their support network is nearby. It's not their fault places like Peckham are being gentrified and forcing local residents out. Secondly, as unfortunate as it is, some careers are London-centric. Mine is one. It is a professional career with some semblance of kudos in certain areas however not a very well paying one (lots of budget cuts at the moment etc) so working in London doesn't always equate to earning loads especially in creative jobs. But they'd pay even less outside of London. Of course you could choose a different career path to mitigate this but some people won't want to compromise their ambitions. I also pay much less rent than that abomination for a flat (actual flat with separate rooms) shared with one friend. But London isn't somewhere you can live alone or settle down unless you're earning pretty much 6 figures, that is true.

Gosh... We let out a three bed detached house on a lovely estate for less than 700 a month... You could fit that entire flat in the detached garage it comes with, accessed by its own private drive and leading it to the large garden overlooking a nature reserve!