Excellent news
If the job's is in SE1 you could probably find somewhere within walking or a short distance for not too much (relatively). You could rent a 1-bed in an ex-council red brick (not too unpleasant block) for maybe £850 (check this: I may be lying, it's not my area)? It's a 'patchy' postcode, some of the Shad Thames developments are fucking gorgeous old warehouse conversions with river views, but with prices to match. Some of it's a bit grim.

The idea that food etc is really expensive is a complete lie. Where I hail from (Winchester) is much, much more expensive than where I am in Shoreditch, you just have to be canny. Some of the Asian supermarkets/butchers and fruit/veg markets are ridiculously cheap as are some of the best restaurants.

If you're a cock who eats out and drinks in the West End, and buys their shopping in Harrods, then you could bankrupt yourself in seconds. But then you'd be living like a tourist and deserve to be knocked.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 14:47, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I’m George at Asda rather than Giorgio Armani with a fondness for nice, home-cooked food.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 14:51, Reply)

to add my meagre contribution
4 of us ate at a fantastic thai place in covent garden for the same price as 2 at one of Exeter's thai restaurants.

london is much cheaper in some respects.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 14:54, Reply)

You could eat in the Tayyabs every night
and only spend about a tenner a time
(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 14:59, Reply)

awesome
it will happen. my Mrs actually said this weekend that she wants to come and meet you lot. Not entirely sure if she knows what she is letting herself in for...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:06, Reply)

If she was actually keen to meet us
she has no idea.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:10, Reply)

I was explaining you to her. it didn't put her off.

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:12, Reply)

Nice.
How did you explain me? I'm curious as to how others see me ONLINE, since Micheal S obviously thinks i'm such a whining cunt and Blaireau69 thinks I'm a bully and a cocksucker.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:17, Reply)

But you are.
Aren't you?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:21, Reply)

Well, I don't like to blow my own trumpet

(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:23, Reply)

I know that you aren't as much of these things as you seem
plus we share a lot of views on IMPORTANT THINGS

I basically said you claim to be a geordie, but are in fact very middle-class and you look like the laughing cavalier. That sums you up nicely.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:28, Reply)

Not true,
I just want your butt for my own.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:38, Reply)

Get to the back of the queue.

( girlinthehole, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:42, Reply)

head bowed in shame
wanders off to the back of the queue with the rest of the losers.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 16:06, Reply)

You could rotate
Tayyab's, then Vietnamese (Kingsland Rd), then Turkish (Dalston), each time get a meal that shits on their small-town regional equivalents from a great height and each night spend no more than £15.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:09, Reply)

bah
we have no vietnamese or turkish restaurants here (other than meze stuff). it upsets me.

london is too far from the surf though.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:11, Reply)

Do you recommend any specific vietnamese places?

(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:12, Reply)

Saigon

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:12, Reply)

Nice
I'll just fly over there next time I have a craving for dumpling soup
(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:14, Reply)

when I get that craving
I fly over to your mother
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:14, Reply)

*trigger fingers*
BOO-Yah!
(Bazongaloid, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:17, Reply)

Sure.
Viet Hoa Cafe just up from where Old St meets Shoreditch High Street (so v bottom of Kingsland Rd) is absolutely excellent, as is the Vietnamese Cultural Centre on Englefield Rd (slightly more annoying to get to but really, really great) - that one I've not done for a couple of years, mind, as Viet Hoa do such a great job.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:17, Reply)

You'd probably do fine then
I sometimes yearn for the countryside but London does have more green spaces than any other major city (I'm told) - there are shitloads of parks and so much to do that the mind truly boggles - and not all of it expensive. Even if you didn't come here for life it would be a great experience (provided you don't get murdered, obv.).

I've been here 17 years and fucking love it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:00, Reply)

Surely you should've been knived by now?
Or am I breaching the boundaries of allowable /offtopic banter?

Anyway I come from the North Highlands and apparently at the weekend some tinker was chasing another tinker with a shotgun. Regarding some hoe. That is DANGER mannn...
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:42, Reply)