Leaving t' North

[Skill Leverage]

Hello chaps (and ladies),

Am moving down from sunny Yorkshire to start my career with Futex in the next week or two, and so far have struggled to find accomodation through gumtree, moveflat.com etc...

If any of you fine people could help me out, either in terms of knowing someone with a room available or good websites other than those mentioned above, that would be grand.

I'm not too fussed about location, as long as I can get to Woking on public transport by 6am, so Clapham/Wandsworth area would be ideal.

Cheers all, SL

 

[PualoP]

What's your budget?

Try this out, you can see the prices with bills included which is pretty cool:

Flatshare in London - Houseshare, rooms to rent in central London, Canary Wharf & Docklands - Nice Room

 

[Skill Leverage]

Cheers Pualo,

Budget's not huge to be honest, I shall be earning a mere pittance for my first spell at Futex.

 

[rathcoole_exile]

...whilst generating billions of dollars profits on their behalf .......

 

[rathcoole_exile]

the North's shyte anyway mate. full of northerners !

 

[timsk]

Many, many congratulations S_L - that's fantastic news.
However, you now have the somewhat harder task of working out how to move westwards with the eventual aim of living in the best county in Britain which, obviously, is Devon.
Oh, and well done getting the Futex job - hope it goes well!
Tim.

 

[wasp]

How about Arabians? Sure he'd love another man around the house!

 

[GammaJammer]

How about living a teeny bit further out. Otherwise you're gonna be paying London accomodation prices AND commuting money, for a non-london wage, which, believe me, you're gonna find tough.

So I have a few suggestions;

1) on that same train line but further down it (Surbiton / New Malden ish).
2) Another line, but maybe 1 or 2 stops from Clapham Junction (tons of scope here, but somewhere like Earlsfield / Streatham springs to mind).

If you can find an affordable place in town then great, but if not, just do your homework really carefully on the transport side of things. The train links out there aren't bad, and there are pockets of affordability in an otherwise pricey part of town.

Good luck

GJ

 

[Skill Leverage]

Thanks all, great advice. GJ you're definitely right about the wage/accomodation thing, fortunately I have a bit of money saved up from my 6 months' work since leaving Uni, hopefully that will be able to plug the holes. Will definitely look into Surbiton and other surrounding areas though. I have nothing better to do for the next fortnight...

 

[rathcoole_exile]

Surbiton - Capital of Wife-Swapping, you'll love it

 

[Skill Leverage]

Haha, I don't have a wife to swap but I'm happy to throw my keys in the bowl

 

[rathcoole_exile]

don't worry, you won't go home empty handed (sic) when you leave Bangkok when you come to blow your first bonus

 

[Skill Leverage]

As long as you point out Miss Hung Fah Lo and her buddies for me

 

[GammaJammer]

Oh dear......

If you have a bit of spare cash btw, I would try at all costs to avoid spunking it on accomodation if I were you. There will come a time when your wallet takes an unexpected hit and you're gonna need it for sure.

GJ

 

[Skill Leverage]

Thanks for the tip GJ, something I should definitely have thought of. Perhaps I should just suck it up and live in Woking for a year. Better to do that and build my trading account I guess. I'm sure I can convince some pals to come round on a Friday to play Eddie Ciderhands with 4 quid bottles of Scrumpy.

 

[GammaJammer]

Not sure how cheap Woking is actually. The places I mentioned may be a better compromise for you. Depends on what you want really.