Author Topic: Friend looking for a place in London (Read 3918 times)

ericsabbath · « **on:** March 28, 2008, 09:10:48 PM »

so... i have a friend (a brazilian girl... and she plays guitar too :P) living in London and she's looking for a place or room to stay

do you guys know some (cheap) place?

thanks :P

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2008, 10:26:26 AM »

:D Yes of course, a Brazilian girl you say? She plays guitar too? Can she cook, wash up and do the hoovering? If so lets just skip the room bit and I'll marry her! :lol:

I may be able to help, what part of London is she looking to stay in?

Jonny · « **Reply #2 on:** March 30, 2008, 01:27:38 PM »

Quote from: Johnny Mac

:D Yes of course, a Brazilian girl you say? She plays guitar too? Can she cook, wash up and do the hoovering? If so lets just skip the room bit and I'll marry her! :lol:

I may be able to help, what part of London is she looking to stay in?

ROFL..

I wouldn't exactly see London as cheap. Hence why I'd rather choose Glasgow than London for my Uni.

noodleplugerine · « **Reply #3 on:** March 30, 2008, 02:23:10 PM »

Quote from: Jonny

Quote from: Johnny Mac
:D Yes of course, a Brazilian girl you say? She plays guitar too? Can she cook, wash up and do the hoovering? If so lets just skip the room bit and I'll marry her! :lol:

I may be able to help, what part of London is she looking to stay in?

ROFL..

I wouldn't exactly see London as cheap. Hence why I'd rather choose Glasgow than London for my Uni.

Its not all about the cash... London has some of the best universities in the country - UCL, Kings and Imperial just to name a few.

Jonny · « **Reply #4 on:** March 30, 2008, 03:38:42 PM »

Quote from: noodleplugerine

Quote from: Jonny
Quote from: Johnny Mac
:D Yes of course, a Brazilian girl you say? She plays guitar too? Can she cook, wash up and do the hoovering? If so lets just skip the room bit and I'll marry her! :lol:

I may be able to help, what part of London is she looking to stay in?

ROFL..

I wouldn't exactly see London as cheap. Hence why I'd rather choose Glasgow than London for my Uni.

Its not all about the cash... London has some of the best universities in the country - UCL, Kings and Imperial just to name a few.

My choice was Kingston. They had THE best Italian restaurant in THE WORLD. But alas, I don't think I could survive eating Wotsits and Thames river water whilst my earnings were being drained before I realised if I really have income.

It's like the 'outcome' of working in London. Ironic. I think.

Simon D · « **Reply #5 on:** March 30, 2008, 08:57:48 PM »

Quote from: Jonny

My choice was Kingston. They had THE best Italian restaurant in THE WORLD. But alas, I don't think I could survive eating Wotsits and Thames river water whilst my earnings were being drained before I realised if I really have income.

It's like the 'outcome' of working in London. Ironic. I think.

Yeah, it's something like that. It's certainly the reason I don't want to work there, even though it's the hub for the industry I work in (media/publishing). I'm never going to be rich doing what I do, but poverty is not a lifestyle choice I aspire to.

MrBump · « **Reply #6 on:** March 30, 2008, 09:23:37 PM »

London's great! I love working there, but am very glad that I don't live there.

http://www.gumtree.com/

This is a good place to find cheap accommodation, if your Brazilian ladyfriend turns down all offers from the freaky, weirdo guitarists on this forum...

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #7 on:** March 30, 2008, 11:38:00 PM »

London can be the best place in the world when things are going well. It can also be the worst when things are not. It's like a monster! It all comes down to the choices you make of who you hang around with and where you go that shapes it. But I wouldn't want to live anywhere else to be honest.

So is your friend here Eric? I know a bloke who has rooms to let in north london very near to a railway station for access into the city ect. Lots of work in the area too.

FernandoDuarte · « **Reply #8 on:** March 30, 2008, 11:44:55 PM »

Quote from: Johnny Mac

I know a bloke who has rooms to let in north london very near to a railway station for access into the city ect. Lots of work in the area too.

Good to know when I decide to move there :D

noodleplugerine · « **Reply #9 on:** March 31, 2008, 12:12:49 AM »

London is in my opinion the best place in the world to live.

Not that I've been everywhere, but it seems to me....

You either have gorgeous cultural hubs like Florence, where there is absolutely nothing to do - Or places like New york where economy and consumerism rule - Which are perhaps not beautiful, but there's plenty to do.

London is the ultimate medium. Gorgeous architecture with lots of culture and huge amounts of things to do. While the suburbs are incredibly comfortable and well.. Suburban. And ofcourse say what you will about London transport, but you're never much more than an hour from anywhere in the city by tube.

FernandoDuarte · « **Reply #10 on:** March 31, 2008, 12:20:13 AM »

I've stayed there for 2 weeks and I enjoyed so much that everytime that someone says "London" or I se a picture of, I few deeply remembering there...

Jonny · « **Reply #11 on:** March 31, 2008, 12:27:21 AM »

Quote from: FernandoEsteves

I've stayed there for 2 weeks and I enjoyed so much that everytime that someone says "London" or I se a picture of, I few deeply remembering there...

Well when someone says London I see all the business women in skirts. :roll:
But if something says Glasgow I think of the woman with a flary skirt on I saw whilst on the bus and it was windy day.

But yeah, when I was in London for.. the 3 days that I was, I managed to experience a COMPLETE other side of, well, of the 'usual' back here.

1. Obviously, there's SO many people.
2. It's like a big collection of little pieces of the world in one city.

I've never seen it leaving London or anything, doubt it's a big motorway with green everywhere like it usually in here. I'd probably miss that when I leave.

But funny, on the last day when I was leaving the hotel. There was this drunk guy shouting at some woman about stealing something. Then he grabs a spade from a rubbish clearing guy (whom doesn't do any - help or his job) and then this black guy comes and beats the cr@p out of him. Lovely.

_tom_ · « **Reply #12 on:** March 31, 2008, 12:36:58 AM »

I dont like london, then again I dont like busy places. I'd much rather live in a small town or village as I do now :)

Will · « **Reply #13 on:** March 31, 2008, 12:38:21 AM »

Quote from: _tom_

I dont like london, then again I dont like busy places. I'd much rather live in a small town or village as I do now :)

Just what I was thinking, nothing like the peace and quiet of the countryside.

RadioElectric · « **Reply #14 on:** March 31, 2008, 01:03:58 AM »

I visited London last summer for the first time in 5 years. I was planning to buy a new acoustic guitar and arrived smack in the middle of that terrorism "scare" (the one with the failed bomb outside the nightclub).

Of course, I didn't know this was happening as nobody seemed at all bothered by it. I only looked it up on my phone when loads of police vehicles of different kinds whizzed past me (I think I was on oxford street at the time though my knowledge of london is terrible). Well, one police car didn't whizz past me and instead stopped in the middle of the road where both officers got out and ran into Burger King. Not sure whether there was actually an incident there or they just needed emergency breakfast en route but the idea of that made me laugh.

Anyway, in the end nobody got blown up and I bought a nice Guild Dreadnought for £500.