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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I started off in Finsbury Park but for the equivalent of where I am now I'd be paying more than double, and forget buying. Then I went North to Enfield Chase, where there are some very nice places for only about half again as much, and those that are double are fantastic. And buying would be an option too - this looks really nice: www.findaproperty.com/for-sale/property-10393019
Of course this is all moot if I don't get offered the job in London, but I have discovered I just like looking at flats, especially modern purpose-built ones. Fuck your Victorian conversions.
What's your odd pleasure? MY MUM IS DEAD YOU SICK FUCK.
EDIT: Also, any other suggestions for good areas to live with transport links to Moorgate?
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But then, I am a nosy bugger.
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especially if the current occupants have good taste. Although there's a certain charm in the places full of mismatching 70s furniture and tiny CRT televisions.
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High Barnet is the overground...... Actually, for getting to mooregate, the whole of Barnet (near stations) is alright.
I saw about 8 flats in Barnet when hunting and I had a choice between convenient as a non driver, or having a nice place.
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Finsbury Park is a cool place, loads of great restaurants, and a great football team.
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Be fun to see more away games, though.
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I guess I was thinking about doing both in the same area, but there's no real reason to. I could even rent in FP for 6 months and then rent further out for 6 months before buying, assuming they haven't sacked me by then.
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They do have a ^virgin gym as part of the complex
( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 20:14, Reply)
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But some of them don't stop a few stops just before or after.
Don't bother with Tower Point, tiny kitchens (seriously, I doubt there is 1m of workspace), built to let market means shittier neighbours, it's I think about 10 years old now and has a lift so maintenance is horrific, the gym/pool is shit and expensive considering you own some of the fucking building.
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Like Al says, I'd probably rent first then look around to buy. No substitute for seeing it and smelling it yourself.
The size of the kitchen in my current place is the only thing I'd want to improve, so that's definitely a point.
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www.foxtons.co.uk/properties-by-street/properties-for-sale-in-princess-park-manor.html
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-34372121.html
My Dad wanted to buy one of the flats there off-plan, but Ma' didn't like it as my Mum's mum's great-aunty had a bomb dropped on her head in that very same building when it used to be a mental hospital in WW2.
If ever there was a place that isn't haunted that should be, it was there. My grandkids would never have to work again if we did go through with it though.
( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 20:57, Reply)
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what the I don't even
Edit: www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-30404722.html
Wanna share a flat? You can have the room with its own toilet.
( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 21:23, Reply)
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You'll get to know the name of the paps eventually.
( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 21:25, Reply)
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I had misread £750pw as £750pm. I cannot afford £750pw.
Although if I shared, and Gonz had the bigger room, I'd only be paying £350pw...
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I went to my bank account today and I have just shy of £5. And by that, I mean, £5 left of my overdraft that is 20% HIGHER than my entire monthly wage. And I've borrowed £200 of Ma' this month. I can get a few quid together to go to work and all that, but it's not really a solution.
So, starting this week, I'm going to take out X amount every monday morning, and that has to buy everything for the week, such as food and fags and outings. I think its because buying stuff using a card or online isn't real. I need to hand over real cash.
Also, I love my job, I love my job to pieces, it is the best thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life. I'm not even exasorating, or if I am, it's in the top 3... losing my V plates isn't even in there. BUT, but, I am greatly underpaid for what I do and what I can do. Looking at Jnr jobs doing the same thing has a start of about 180% of my wage. I currently have to do private work to make it up.
Anyone got any general thoughts about all that? I'm gonna turn this month into a game where I'll spend as little as I can on everything, like food'n'shit, see how far I can make my money go, turn it into a fun thing. I'm not glum about it (although tonight I got myself all tarted up, looking really good, shaved, showered, bit of spray, best clothes, ironed too... but then when I looked in my account it said NO, YOU SHALL NOT GO OUT TONIGHT... which suck a bit, as I don't go out often).
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I would recommend making note of what you spend every day for a week. It's amazing how much I was wasting on shit.
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Are your bosses paying you X amount because they don't want to pay more, or because that's genuinely all they can afford?
if it's the former, you have to decide whether you could improve their income by taking them some marketing ideas or bringing in more custom, or something. They might appreciate your input.
If it's the latter, show them what your position is actually worth, and ask them to review your salary.
EDIT: actually, that's the wrong way round, isn't it? Sorry, I'm stressed. My brain stopped working about an hour and a half ago.
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If you're on what, 60% of the salary that you should be then there's nothing keeping you there.
Their loss if you move.
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But I do a lot on the weekend.
I don't think they're taking the piss, it's more like, I haven't bought it up and my 3-month review hasn't happened for 6 months.
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I bet their management meetings have a risk action about you leaving/asking for a raise.
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I've got the balance now though and manage to spend less using mostly plastic than I used to if I had cash on me.
( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 21:32, Reply)
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Find a bunch of references showing you're underpaid and casually ask your boss if you can have a chat for a few minutes in private. Present him with the evidence and ask if there's anything he can do with "the powers that be". He's probably expecting it, to be honest. Tech workers are perennially underpaid because they rarely push it.
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If I do get offered this job I plan on asking for a quite excessive salary but at the same time suggesting I'm prepared to negotiate. I'm not going to enjoy it but I hope to come out with something more than I might have settled for.
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I'll see if I can get my 3-month-meeting this week when I can't had it since oct.
( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 23:59, Reply)
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I have a renewed appreciation for how expensive it is down there. Insist they pay you what you're worth.
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( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 21:41, Reply)
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Are you sure you've thought this through?
( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 23:21, Reply)
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But I think its BANG OUT OF ORDER that your whoring your own mother's passing to get sympathy sex out of AA's dad
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And that it was really funny.
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( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 21:54, Reply)
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Then again, nowt new there.
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And she's a total twat.
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You think I had any choice about being this good looking?
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I fully intend to delete my account then kill myself.
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It even insists on autocorrecting its own name to capitalise the P
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Ordered a semi-healthy takeaway to cheer myself up. I feel ill now.
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Shouldn't you be going out so we can live our youth vicariously though your escapades?
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Then had an argument with my neighbour at five in the morning, he's hilarious.
( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 21:57, Reply)
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It is out of the oven and resting for a few minutes.
( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 21:56, Reply)
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Is Mexican lasagne the next big thing?
Also, when did it stop being spelled lasagna? Did I miss a memo?
( , Sat 24 Mar 2012, 22:03, Reply)
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Lasagne (UK and Italy) or Lasagna (USA)
I'm so ashamed. I shall go into the drawing room and clean my account.
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That Mexican lasagne was supoib. I'm quendetarian, so the sauce had quorn mince, mushrooms, onions, yellow pepper, kidney beans and sweetcorn.
Layered with tortilla wraps in place of pasta sheets and topped with a 50/50 mix of crushed nachos and grated cheese.
I've put on about a stone.
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I'm vegesexual, what do you expect?
I know I'm something of a lifestyle hero round here, and my behaviours and standards are oft held aloft as the very highest of aspirations, but I can't always 100% be the example you people need.
At present I am once again reading up on Ted Bundy and planning my next whisky purchase.
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Mrs kept trying to sneak quorn into my food, but I didn't fall for it.
Do you eat FACON tm?
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No.
And this is nice and quiet.
youtu.be/fCw-jjeZKV4
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Layering is tortillas with grated cheese in place of the bechamel.
Try it dude.
So so good.
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Mind you my frittata at lunch had a fuckton of cheese on.
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