cheap places to live

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:55 pm

i'm going spare since i moved back into my parents' gaff, so i was wondering if anyone could recommend a nice & cheap area of london i can move to? i need to get to Blackwall for work, so somewhere east/south east-ish with decent transport connections is what i'm looking for. anyone know what shadwell's like, seems well cheap from what i've read on various estate agents' sites..

cheers in advance!

by 'nice' i mean i don't particularly want to get raped up the arse or stabbed on my way home at night

alex bk-bk · Post by **alex bk-bk** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:02 pm

dalston is the cheapest place i know of in london. i know people renting for 50 a week!

camberwell is SE and its nice and can be cheap-ish, same for new cross

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:11 pm

yeah i was looking at camberwell and it sounds really good, but i've heard that it's a nightmare to get anywhere from unless you drive or ride a bike?

since i don't have a driving license and i'm a fat bastard, this may be problematic.

alex bk-bk · Post by **alex bk-bk** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:49 pm

hmm well i do cycle everywhere but its got good bus links?

masstronaut · Post by **masstronaut** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:08 am

When you guys say £45/£50 a week what would that be for?

A room in a shared property? Bedsit?

metalboxproducts · Post by **metalboxproducts** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:28 am

Dalston/ stamfordhill/ clapton/ Hackney basicly. It gets a terrible press but it's ok. Come do the E5 skank with me you'll love it

metalboxproducts · Post by **metalboxproducts** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:30 am

Mr Hyde wrote:
masstronaut wrote:When you guys say £45/£50 a week what would that be for?

A room in a shared property? Bedsit?
That was a room in a shared place for me, looking at more like £475 a month for a 'studio' in East Dulwich which is quite a nice area.

(BTW dont want to piss off anyone who lives there but think calling Camberwell nice is streaching it a bit!)

That depends on where you go. There are some really nice parts of. Admittidly camberwell green is rough but so what..

mos dan · Post by **mos dan** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:54 am

camberwell now has a weekly, free dubstep night, which is prob reason enough to move there...

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:57 am

That was a room in a shared place for me, looking at more like £475 a month for a 'studio' in East Dulwich which is quite a nice area.

yeah that's the thing i'm not too sure how up for moving into a house with a bunch of randoms i am. as i've said before i'm a social misfit

Dalston/ stamfordhill/ clapton/ Hackney basicly. It gets a terrible press but it's ok. Come do the E5 skank with me you'll love it

i've been reading up on the E5 skank! dalston seems well cheap, is it like Mad Max at night?

spaceboy · Post by **spaceboy** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:59 am

buying property in east london is a pretty good look.

but then again i would never live in east or south. do it for a punt

metalboxproducts · Post by **metalboxproducts** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:49 pm

pk- wrote:
That was a room in a shared place for me, looking at more like £475 a month for a 'studio' in East Dulwich which is quite a nice area.
yeah that's the thing i'm not too sure how up for moving into a house with a bunch of randoms i am. as i've said before i'm a social misfit

Dalston/ stamfordhill/ clapton/ Hackney basicly. It gets a terrible press but it's ok. Come do the E5 skank with me you'll love it
i've been reading up on the E5 skank! dalston seems well cheap, is it like Mad Max at night?

Lived in Hackney for years and i've never had a problem. It's not that bad. The reputation is not diserved. I feel far more threatend in places like camden/archway/kentishtown. And you are gonna get something good for ya pound. There's loads to do in terms of going out/pubs. The turkish food in Dalston/stokenewington is some of the best you will get anywhere in the world. There is a proper comunity vibe you don't get in a lot of places in london. And perhaps most importantly there is a lot of all night offies lol. Drink till ya drop.
I used to live in south,Brixton,camberwell, peckham, tulse hill. Dalston is not as in ya face as Brixton. And it is only a 20 minute bus ride away from the city. Or a ten minute ride on the over land to liverpool street.
As you can tell i like it in Hackney. Ill give nothing but props.
Ps, very close to FWD

alex bk-bk · Post by **alex bk-bk** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:16 pm

Dalston at night is like NYC or something, you can get a Turkish feast any time of the night for about 2 quid

The only people i know who are managing to live for 50 a week are living in commercial properties and its all a bit sketchy

and Camberwell IS nice! I can't understand where the reputation comes from. I spend a lot of my time there and i'm moving there and never been faced with any problems what so ever

spaceboy · Post by **spaceboy** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:33 pm

£50 a week!!!

jeez...

who remembers card board city? LOL.

alex bk-bk · Post by **alex bk-bk** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:37 pm

hmm yeah gentrification strikes again fo sho! Honestly tho Walworth Road and Camberwell Green aren't the nicest bits, but they still have kind of a charm to them, for me at least. Feel safe and you will be safe is my attitude

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:27 pm

oi dalston sounds sick

http://www.24-7estates.com/pchomes/Prop ... RE1_000303

that's exactly what i'm looking for

the reason that i was asking how nice/safe dalston is was simply because somewhere that big, in an area that's relatively central with fairly good (from the sounds of things) links to the rest of the city for that price must have a catch. and the only catch i could think of was that if i asked someone in the street where the local post office was i'd get a screwdriver in the neck or something

sounds alright though (y)

alex bk-bk · Post by **alex bk-bk** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:55 pm

na man its kind of got an air of sketchiness about it and its (literally) a bit grimey but i recon you can definetly walk down the road unassumingly without getting the gas face or the shank ribs

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