{"id":208,"date":"2008-08-17T08:43:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T08:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2008-08-17T08:43:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T08:43:14","slug":"searching-for-a-flat-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/17\/searching-for-a-flat-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for a Flat in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fingers crossed I&#8217;ll be taking a flat in Farringdon in London on Monday.  <strong>I&#8217;ve been room hunting down there for 2 weeks now<\/strong> and have seen good places in bad locations, bad places in good locations, bad places in shocking locations, but finally I&#8217;ve found a great place in a fantastic location.  I&#8217;ve been looking to lodge in a room in a house or flat share on a Monday to Friday basis. After some searching, these are the best 3 websites I&#8217;ve found and would recommend:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spareroom.co.uk\/\">www.SpareRoom.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/uk.easyroommate.com\/\">uk.EasyRoomMate.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mondaytofriday.com\/\">www.MondayToFriday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finally found a woman who owns an apartment a stone&#8217;s throw from Farringdon Tube station and so 5 minutes walk to my clients offices, which is a real boon as I won&#8217;t have to suffer a tube or bus commute.  It also means that I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll need to get a travel card, which <strong>will save me about a thousand pounds a year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The apartment is in a private managed block with porters etc and closely resembles a hotel in appearance and quality.  It&#8217;s on 2 floors and with open plan kitchen, dinning room, living room, bathroom and 2 double bedrooms (one en-suite), it&#8217;s actually <strong>bigger than the homes of some people I know!<\/strong> But that&#8217;s not the best bit.  The owner actually lives in Bedfordshire and this apartment is her weekend London retreat&#8230; she&#8217;s not there all week and <strong>I&#8217;ll have the place entirely to myself<\/strong>, which is a right result.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m rolling up on Monday with my bags and a cheque book and letters of reference, so fingers crossed it&#8217;ll all go well and <strong>I&#8217;ll be in Monday night<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Then the next task will be to find a Crossfit friendly gym in the area.  I&#8217;ve already started the search and I think I may have found the idea place, which will also be an amazing bargain, but that&#8217;s another post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fingers crossed I&#8217;ll be taking a flat in Farringdon in London on Monday. I&#8217;ve been room hunting down there for 2 weeks now and have seen good places in bad locations, bad places in good locations, bad places in shocking locations, but finally I&#8217;ve found a great place in a fantastic location. I&#8217;ve been looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,59,63,62,61,49,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-farringdon","8":"tag-flat","9":"tag-flat-share","10":"tag-hunting","11":"tag-lodging","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-room"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}