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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? South Kensington, a bizarrely fertile ground for rental opportunities in recent weeks. What happened to you, South Kensington? Obviously a real journalist with investigative intent would chase this story down, follow it into corridors, make phone calls, hit the pavements, find out. That is not really my vibe though.
What is there to do locally? You're vaguely near Earl's Court, which has an old-fashioned TARDIS-style blue police box outside it, and I suppose you could go and loiter near that and, when some nerds slow down to look at it, grab them in a headlock and steal their lunch money. I feel like this could be quite a good moneymaking scheme for the queue at King's Cross for Platform 9 ¾, too. If you do the rounds of those two nerd tourist landmarks every day – snapping off bumbags with a flick knife, pretending to punch them in the face but stopping just short of their nose and letting them panic-blink themselves into a low-grade seizure, maybe stop by Forbidden Planet in Soho to harass kids out of their accumulated birthday money – then you could afford somewhere far, far nicer to live. And you don't have to pay tax on money robbed from nerds, that's law. Might actually give up this writing crap and just get bang into intimidating D&D forum moderators outside the NAMCO Arcade.
Alright, how much are they asking? £1,279 pcm.
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