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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? Good Old Hackney Downs.
What is there to do locally? I lived in this precise area for two years and though I can tell you things you should do in the locale – where to buy a cardamom bun, where to buy a burek, where to go for a posh pint of beer and where to buy a satisfyingly shit one, which pub does the best burgers, which pub does the heroin, which of the servers in Palm 2 make a good coffee and which of them always burn the beans, making buying coffee there a bizarre roulette, your options being bad coffee and exceptional coffee, &c. &c. – I would genuinely say the best thing to do around there is to go to the best shop on the planet, "Fair Deal", and spend around 45 minutes looking at the various soft drinks and dried pulses on offer there. That's about all I did for 24 months, anyway.
Alright, how much are they asking? [Blinking twice and rubbing my eyes as if I’m some character in a 'Looney Tunes' short about to get flattened by a truck] A frankly astonishing £1,300 pcm.
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