A flat in London?

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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?

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I think the tube is over rated - I always found it more stressful than the train, myself. Streatham has 3 train stations and a lot of bus routes.

I realise a lot of it is personal preference and where you end up living when you first move to London, but I could never understand why people made such a production about needing to get on the train to visit us. I used to live on the Isle of Dogs (Mudchute DLR station) and *that* was really difficult to get to, but people were far more willing to try.

I forgot to mention the best thing about Tooting - all the great southern indian veggie restaurants. Totally different from the Bengali foos which is what most 'Indian' food in the UK is. And the food shops that are really cheap. And the Indian sweet shops. Damn, I'm missing Tooting now. Shame it can't move to Edinburgh.