Anyone know much about London??

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Probably the wrong forum for this but does anyone here know much about living in London? Basically I'm moving there next month and I'm wondering what to expect in terms of rent and stuff... Don't even know what parts of London I'll be working in yet so I do appreciate that this is a very vague question.

Thanks for any info anyone can provide...

amazingemmet

EXPENSIVE! rent in zone one will be about £400 a month in a shared house, then there's council tax which is another £50-60 a month(if your a student you don't have to pay it). bills aren't too bad, buses a quite cheap, tube can be expensive if you have to use it everyday.

nightlife is good, english women are easy, you'll be called paddy a lot, if you have trouble with the neighbours you can make connotations to the ira and they won't bugg you again eh thats about all i can think of. if more comes to me i'll post it here

Mossy Monk

amazingemmet wrote:

make connotations to the ira

probably wouldnt go down too well especially after yesterdays events

amazingemmet

Probably right but just going on my experiences in london

Buy a London a-z the minute you get there ... So handy
Subscribe to time out, it will tell you everything you need to know. and always buy 1 day travelcards if you're heading into town. (cost about a quid more than a return tube ticket and covers buses and nightbuses too)

Mossy Monk

forget the travel cards. they have some other thing that you top up which makes it even cheaper. i cant remember the name of it but it is advertised everywhere

Sarsfield

Oyster Cards

BigEejit

It all depends where you live .... 2 bed flats around where I am in Greenwich are £1000 a month, +£1200 a year council tax + £200 odd a year for water and waste.
If renting a housing association flat you may have to pay for repairs (bill was ~£2500 last year for the flat I am in, no repairs - just maintenance and painting).

Eating out can be a lot cheaper. I expense my transport but a Zone 1+2 Travelcard (for all public transport in those zones) is £6 peak and £4.70 off peak.

Great nightlife, loads of places to go (lots of fantastic free museums) and most people are friendly and helpful .... I know my neighbours here after 6 months, didnt know them in Cork after 3 years....

WhiteWashMan

amazingemmet wrote:

EXPENSIVE! rent in zone one will be about £400 a month in a shared house, then there's council tax which is another £50-60 a month(if your a student you don't have to pay it). bills aren't too bad, buses a quite cheap, tube can be expensive if you have to use it everyday.

nightlife is good, english women are easy, you'll be called paddy a lot, if you have trouble with the neighbours you can make connotations to the ira and they won't bugg you again eh thats about all i can think of. if more comes to me i'll post it here

dont bother posting again.
nothing youve said so far could be mistaken as either useful, imformative or even mildly amusing.
or correct for that matter.

for the OP, a good thread to check out is this one. has lots of information and some experiences in it...
moving to london

amazingemmet

rent in zone one will be about £400 a month in a shared house, then there's council tax which is another £50-60 a month(if your a student you don't have to pay it). bills aren't too bad, buses are quite cheap, tube can be expensive if you have to use it everyday

yup nothing helpful there. what was the title of the thread "Anyone know much about London" Well i told him what i know about london having lived there for most of last year

WhiteWashMan

if you spent a year in london, youd have something more relevant to say than mentioning the IRA and being called paddy.

neither of which has happened to me in the last 4 years ive been in the Uk. oh, expcet by irish people of course...

rent depends on how many in the house, or whether you even share a house, so not really useful. council tax likewise. on average its about 120 quid a month.

bills are relative to what you buy. liek any city. hardly new information there.

transport is as expensive as you want it to be. again, all relative.
so i could actually take what you said, paste it into any thread about any city in the world and it would be equally useless.

thanks, but if you want to post up something useful, then do so, but stop wasting bandwidth with rubbish.