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What is living in London like? Hell. Here’s proof, beyond all doubt, that renting in London is a nightmare.
Where is it? So near to Paddington Station that it might as well be in Paddington Station, which – if you've ever been to Paddington Station, it's just one long "Taxis This Way" floor-line that leads in the wrong direction, forever and ever in a loop, a couple of Delice de Frances and the impermeable air of malaise, visiting Paddington the closest thing to synthesising the tired bone-deep ache of a Sam Smith's hangover without consuming the required 12 pints of "Taddy" necessary for it – sounds like a living nightmare, frankly, like some previously undiscovered circle of hell.
What is there to do locally? Paddington being such a main thoroughfare for trains means the area around the (already enormous) station expands to encompass the idea of the station itself, so even when you're not in the station you're in the station, every restaurant or Pret or shop or pub you go into populated by the same people, people in stretched-neck T-shirts working through that high-tension anxious energy of people who have 40 minutes to kill before their train leaves, the looming reality of the train shaping everything they do – how quickly they drink, how impatient they are with wait staff, how many fucking backpacks they are carrying at once – and leaks out of them, poisoning the surrounding area, so basically you can do anything you want in Paddington as long as you don’t mind someone with unwashed hair and a four-litre water canteen strapped to their khakis clanking into you while they try to speed-eat a Leon burger before getting the 12:04 to Plymouth
Alright, how much are they asking? Wow, didn't really realise how many powerful and aggressive feelings I had towards Paddington Station before today. What other stations do I hate with the same dark energy that I don't even know about yet? How much baggage, truly, am I ever carrying around? £1,000 pcm.
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