Adam and I have been discussing the possibility of living in London for a year at some stage. It’s a bit of a toss-up between a living space the rough area of Peter Costello’s anus in London, or living somewhere about an hour’s train trip away and getting a flat marginally larger.
What’s frustrating me – and I’m really hoping some of you can agree with me on this one – is Adam’s wild theories of how we’d work out the money situation. I’ve been noting all along what an expensive city London is to live in – compared to Sydney, anyway.
Adam’s swift retort is always: “But you’re getting paid in pounds, so it doesn’t matter”. My argument is that the chunk of your wage used to pay rent every week will be much bigger in London than it is in Sydney. Same for the groceries, hell, everything.
“But you’re getting paid in pounds!” is constantly cock-slapped back in my face. I KNOW I’M GETTING PAID IN POUNDS! I’m seriously unsure of the reasoning behind this argument. Does getting paid in pounds make me magically English and rich? Adam, you are free to comment here and explain yourself, so that others can knock some good old-fashioned British financial sense into you, wot-wot.
But any folk familiar with London who happen to be reading this – what do you think we’re best to do? Live in London or somewhere else close by? Any suggestions on areas to live in which aren’t so pricey that they’re sell-my-body-to-the-night-inducing but still quite fun and/or pleasant places to live?
Things that excite me most about the idea of living in London: being able to buy Kerrang at the newsagents every week, fresh off the press; higher chance of meeting other gay guys actually into metal in the same city as me; everything being battered.