A flat in London?

[ciphergoth]

As I mentioned in an earlier LJ entry, it looks like bootpunk is going to need the room I'm now living in before the end of the year, so I'm looking for somewhere new in London to live before then.

• I want to share a flat, is anyone else looking for a flat share?
• Where in London should I live?
• How much rent should I expect to pay? Update I think the £100pw cost of that Tooting flat is about the limit of what I'd want to try and pay.

I want to live near Lisa and Lili, who live very near Streatham station. But I'd also prefer to live somewhere that was on the Tube so I can get into London more easily. One possibility is this flat as mentioned in Howard's journal. It has the huge advantage of being about fifteen minutes walk from Lisa and Lili. But from what he says I'd have to move out again in a year. Alternatively, Brixton has been suggested as a good place to live, handy for the bus to Streatham but also for the Victoria line which takes me rapidly into London and on to the burgeoning bisexual ghetto in Walthamstow. julietk has told me I should live in Bermondsey, which is apparently cheap and handy for London Bridge which has frequent trains to Streatham. Thoughts, ideas?

Comments

[cryx]

i ended up living around vauxhall as the transport is very cheap. kennington has a dodgy rep though. I'd have a nose at www.findaproperty.com if i were you, it'll give some fairly good price ideas.

I've just moved into a 3 bed with 2 friends, and we set our limit at 1000pcm, and alot of agents told us we wouldn't find anything, and yet one saturday i lined up 5 flats to look at in a row, and we had 3 good places out of the 4 we finally saw, and we now live in one of them.

[cryx]

i ment to say the transport is good and the area is cheap *d'oh*. So yeah, it's about 230pw for 3 and thats just on the boundry of zone 1.

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

I'll second the recommendation for that site - there was also one which I now, of course, can't find, that had a colour-coded map of all of london divided into price bands. I'll see if I can dig it out.

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Ah, that one:
http://www.net-lettings.co.uk/index.htm

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

That's very handy - thanks!