London Bedsits - Advice?

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Has anyone here ever lived in a London bedsit? I might be doing so soon, doesn anyone have any advice on finding good ones, or pitfalls I might encounter? (except for too much listening to B&s).

― stephen. s (yaye), Saturday, 30 November 2002 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I lived in one for quite a while. I can't think how this might help you. It was so-so. I imagine others are worse & others are better. What advice are you after?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 30 November 2002 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't live in London. Ever. The burglar alarm won't work, and won't stop people breaking in next door anyway, although it will go off at 3am and carry on for hours for no reason. The previous occupant will flee for guatemala leaving you with all his or her bills. Thegas people will neglect you for months and then carge you one thousand quid all at once. Cars will burn in the street outside your window. The beer is overpriced and every second person you work with snorts coke in a desperate attempt to be 'down' with somebody somewhere.

It's a fucking shithole and I wasn't truly happy for even a single second I was there.

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Saturday, 30 November 2002 02:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, shit, it's that kind of advice? Well, DO come to London, ignoring that guy above. In six years I have been mugged: NOT ONE TIME. In six years I have been burgled: ONE TIME but it was the fault of my friend who left the front door open. In six years I have been beaten up: ONE TIME but it was the fault of a different friend who is an asshole and a provocateur (this is pretend French).

Come to London. It is by far, in my experience, the safest major metropolis in the South East of England.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 30 November 2002 02:22 (twenty-three years ago)

No! Don't! You'll be sorreeeeeeee...

(stands at entrance of cave with awful grey beard to ward off travellers)

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Saturday, 30 November 2002 02:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes! Do! Come! And cross your legs effeminately so's me and Al Ewing can cheat on your wallet and beat the living crap out of the "Plumpers" in the magazines that inhabit your bedsit. You think it's hell down here? It is! So what's stopping ya!

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 30 November 2002 02:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, on that note I have to go to bed in my northern hovel. If you do condemn yourself to the evil London then go visit the Golden Lion in Soho and try out their jukebox.

Shoreditch is the most evil circle in this hell - mind ye it well, the toilets in the pubs there don't flush, but in an ironic manner so you have to pay even more to drink.

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Saturday, 30 November 2002 02:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Hehe, thanks for the advice, I think. My plan is to Cross my fingers and hope.

― stephen. s (yaye), Saturday, 30 November 2002 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

which part of town you looking in?

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 30 November 2002 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't think anyone had used the term 'bedsit' since 1987.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 30 November 2002 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

they're 'studio' flats now!

― michael (michael), Sunday, 1 December 2002 00:57 (twenty-three years ago)

'media style'

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 1 December 2002 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

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