I would enjoy these more if you let each person explain their apartment before moving to the next apartment. Splicing each section together is annoying and I lose track of which apartment I'm looking at.
As a Londoner - none of these flats look like any homes I've ever lived in, or seen.. maybe the Clapham one... maybe. Personally, think it's a really odd representation of London apartments :/
Actually they looked like all the ones I viewed (except that 4K one!). The warehouse one is really common in North London, creatives love it there and they're known for the best parties 😁 Weird they didn't show any standard houses though.
@@marinaelgueta443 Earl's Court used to be pretty grungy and full of bedsits and hostels for Aussies, Kiwis and South African backpackers and students. Now the area is too expensive and they have moved out to Clapham and other places. Since being gentrified, Earl's Court is now full of expats from France (overflow from Little Paris of South Kensington), Spain and Italy and quite a few Americans who can't afford Notting Hill or Holland Park. It is not really a posh place - there are still many social housing for the poor and working class while the middle classes are hanging on by the skin of their teeth.
Apparently, it was a factory in the '80s, someone bought it and transformed it into a multi-spacial thingy, 20 people each paying him 680...great money if you ask me lol
This could have worked if they used the names of the neighborhoods to identify the flats, but instead they used the names of the residents, which didn’t help at all with my confusion 😂
Lol yeah totes. I wonder if the fact that they're all creatives helps - like if they're all working from home or have flexible working times etc there's not a mad rush at 8am aha
You should include the average salary for each city as well to give people a better understanding of rent. Most Americans aren't used to how low the salaries are in Europe.
London is crazy expensive. Most of the time everyone pays half or more than half of their salary just for flat. People with lover incomes can't afford to rent a flat and can only afford to rent a room and that's still around 700/800 pm. Those ones who earn a bit more of course want their own space, and cheap basic 1 bedroom flat is around 1500/2000£. From my experience I can say that salary for young professionals varies from 1500- 4000£ per month (3/4k is really good salary)
Liga Ozolina yeah I live in London and the cost of living is ridiculously high. I find that a lot of Americans compare London to NYC but neglect the fact that the average salary in NYC is 76k whereas the average salary in London is about 36k.
Liga Ozolina £1500-2000 pm for a one bed? My husband and I pay £1000 pm in Lewisham. We drive and can be at Westfield Stratford in 20-30 mins. Greenwich is even closer. Price really depends on area which I don’t think this video really illustrates.
Agreed. The cost of living here vs the salary you can expect in some professions astounds me. My partner and I live in Shepherds Bush and pay about £1.5k/month. We are fortunate to be really close to a Westfield and close to a number of tube stops which makes the journey to Central London 20-30 mins max. I could never imagine owning a car here, or being able to afford a house here. Living here also really makes me appreciate how good living in Australia is relative to London.
Most of these flats are cherry picked on the very "nice side". Most flats in London are super expensive and not nearly as nice as these and when you find one flat that's half decent you have be ready to throw cash faster than a cowboy draws his pistol.
If you actually need to move and don’t need to find a replacement for your place, do it now. Plenty of Airbnb’s driving local rent prices down 10-30% depending on the area, so you can lock some pretty good contracts.
@@innet09 there's this youtuber called 'Poo In Korea' whose an Indian born n' bred in Italy. She is a working college student who bought an apartment in Seoul.. She mentioned apartments in Seoul are expensive to rent out so she bought one
London is known as super diverse though so it's accurate to show people who are originally from another country 🙂 To be fair, we don't have tons of Americans... But like they said in the video some parts are more known for Italians, or Turkish people etc. 'Proper Londoner' wouldn't mean someone with a British accent 😃
I get getting people from across the world as London is very diverse but I wish it wasn’t just 2 Americans and rather one American and someone from elsewhere in the world
@@antarchi80 Yeah I agree with you. It would be better represent London to have more people that maybe have moved from different places in the world :)
If you wanted proper Londoners they should have looked for the needle in the haystack and that is the cockneys. Other “proper Londoners” too of course, but most of the inner-city and East Londoners have been replaced.
The woman who's renting the 3800 pound apartment trying to justify the amount she pays monthly: The nice thing too is that it has sliding doors in case you want some privacy in the kitchen. Lol
Yeah, means you live somewhere nice that people want to see etc. I'm prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt though as I think she could well have been trying to think of a downside and was just like err loud suitcases
I can understand if it was someone born and raised in London and an actual londoner but she was American so it was a bit hypocritical. I know she lives there and isnt a tourist but shes a foreigner and that's pretty much the same as a tourist in my opinion.
This just makes me appreciate the spacious apartment I live in located in midtown Manhattan, New York. I love London charm but just visiting there I quickly realized how even more expensive it is to live there than my side of the pond.
I'll bet my last tenner, if her husband is American too, they are over here on contract and the company is picking up that rent bill. Paying nigh on 4k a month rent, you'd have to be earning 200k a year AT LEAST to justify the spend. That puts them in the top 1% of income earners in the country. Hardly an accurate representation of what the average Londoner lives like.
@@woofolliesmydog8628 Umm, how'd you come to that conclusion? I was looking at Data Scientist jobs in London a couple of years ago and at 65-70K a year I would have been able to afford half her and her husbands rent all by myself. If they both work in highly skilled jobs, which is likely, the could easily afford $3,800 and would be nowhere near the 1 percent.
The prices make me want to faint ... I live in Essex but I'm only a 45 minute train ride from central London, and average rent here for a 2 bed 1 bath is £900-£1000. Plus I get to leave the crowded hell-hole that is London at the end of the day.
@@Design____ByS near chafford hundred station, can get cheaper if you go further from the station but then you need to take the bus or get a car. Train is about £200 per month which I'm pretty sure is cheaper than from other big commuter cities such as brentwood
@Courtney COOKE That's Fulham. Clapham is definitely not SLOANEY, It's known for young professionals, loads of pubs and bars and having the green space of the Common.
The American *princess* turned me off completely! I stopped watching the video because of her . My suggestion is that after the introduction you get a professional to do the narratives.
As much as I love the hustle and bustle and living in London is simply fab, but the tremendous downside of it all is the overpriced rent. I used to pay around 900 gbp ON A ROOM in an apartment that I shared with my partner. In this tiny apartment, there were two more rooms (an en-suite and a regular room), a bathroom (that me, my partner and a flatmate had to share) and a tiny kitchen with NO ROOM to have a table and sit down therefore we had to eat in our rooms. The prices are ridiculous for what you get, that is the main reason we moved and we are very happy with the decision we made!
Those apartments must have very high rents, I know several people who have lived in London and have never been able to find a decent apartment at a decent price. They told some funny stories about the situation of the apartments in that city, some really incredible, ah, ah! For example, my friend's son wanted to learn English well (we are Italian) because he wanted to work as a mechanic in Formula 1 races, so he had enrolled in a school in London. He had to study during the day, work in a restaurant in the evening and would share an apartment with other people for about a year. When he moved to London his parents went with him to check that everything was in order. School and workplace were perfect, but the apartment ... It was something horrible! The kitchen was dirty, there were cockroaches everywhere and he should have slept in a bare room that had to be locked with a padlock! My friend's son claimed that everything was ok for him, but his parents were shocked and forced him to return to Italy. They aren't rich, he is a worker in a factory and she cleans a school, and they live in a small apartment, but in Italy an apartment like that would have been considered uninhabitable due to the total lack of hygiene and safety. The plan was to send him back to London a few months later, when they would find a better home for him, but three days after returning home he started working with a company that sells industrial mechanisms and is now the industrial representative for numerous companies in my region.The work is excellent and in the end he decided to study English in a school in my town run by a native speaker.. And still today his family enjoys telling the story of the horrible English apartment, ah, ah!
I love the story. And I am glad his parents could make that decision for him at that particular time. Had he remained in London, he might not have his dream job. The competition in London when it comes to job hunting is fierce and overwhelming.
I'm sorry but that factory-living arrangement is a hot mess express! Also, anyone who covers their pillows with their bed cover is a serial killers haha.
I've never lived in factory-living arrangement, nor will I ever contemplate doing it. Having said that, I DO cover my pillows with the bed cover but me no serial kille!!!
it really is i just think they should get it renovated and up to date and get better furniture and decor cause oh my god all those colors clashing and the bathroom i can't!!! it looked very dirty!!!
if her husband and child are British (which I assume they are if they're four months old) then she's a permanent resident probably on the route to citizenship/naturalisation, so not a tourist lol
@@PlaceboEllie As an American, she just sounded super entitled. If I want to visit London as a tourist, why would a fellow American be judging me for that? She should get off her high horse.
That’s a really good vlog! Inspiring I live in London with my Hubby! We’re short of space I like the way these flats are laid out! That’s funny keeping clothes in hallway bcos bedroom is too small, totally get that!
SnEAkErHEaD Not really, Earl's Court was never a prestigious area, if she was in prime central London- Knightsbridge, Mayfair, Belgravia maybe she would be paying more than that for a week, let alone a month.
I could just never live in London. I pay £325 a month for a two bedroom, two bathroom flat about 50 minutes train ride from London. I love dipping into London for the odd weekend to get the best out of the city: restaurants, shows, museums then go back. I know people living in London who pay so much to live there they have no money to even go out. So what’s the point.
In general, most of the flats in UK are tiny and very expensive to buy. Unless you are very rich and can afford a penthouse apartment or a decent size apartment in a good location.
6 year Londoner here - the Earl's Court lady pays an average price for the neigborhood and there is always noise around here as it's pretty easy to access and loads of tourists walk around (which is funny because I've walked past her house several times) To the girl living in Harringay - You guys have got great parties. Been to one for Halloween last year but didn't know it was such a community. Loved it though and I live just around the corner x All in all I feel like these videos are great, but you guys should give them more time to explain their apartments and try to put a face with it - that way it's easier to put them together in the end. Instead of having to think about which bathroom belongs to which bedroom :)
That is considered big... here, couldn't possibly move around... like, there is a space on the end of the bed to just enough to let the door swing... and if there is a bathroom attached, it's just few steps away from another side of your bed. I'm telling this is on downtown KL, Malaysia
Born and raised Londoner here, who grew up in Battersea (which borders Clapham). Just so you know, Clapham Common is not a park, it's a common (the clue's in the name!). Parks generally are surrounded by walls or fences and have specific entry points, which are often closed after dark. Traditionally commons are open areas where anyone can let their livestock graze. Although admittedly you rarely, if ever, see them used that way these days, especially in inner London!
I lived in London 10 years’ ago for 10 years and lived in a real mix of flats. I’m always curious when people describe anything as ‘typical’ for London, as the variation is immense, as you’d expect from such a city. My favourite flat was in Maida Vale. It had a garden, conservatory, beautiful woodwork, and the landlord was an antique dealer so the furniture was stunning. I was sort of subletting from my flatmate, but I think the landlord knew…
It's so interesting seeing these people who live in different places in the same city. The lady in Earl's court screams money. You can tell who is middle class and who is not. Body language and speech along with the get up can tell so much about a person even before u know anything about them.
@@user-dz2hj6jo5h yup agreed but there are different sub classes within middle class too. It's a wide spectrum lower middle class all the way up to upper middle class. Just above middle class is not a proper generalisation for anyone.
The warehouse situation is reminisce of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, California in 2016 - similar set up, same lifestyles. Many lives lost.
I really liked the place in the old dog biscuit factory, and it wasn't too bad for the price. The 20 young creatives place almost makes me me feel nauseous at the thought of living with that many people, even when I was a young creative.
I lived in Earl's Court 20 years ago, in a shared flat with an older guy (I'm female), thinking my bedroom had its own kitchen. Hahaha yeah right, I was actually renting a BED in the kitchen. Cool cool cool cool.... (And no, it wasn't cheap or even cheaper than another more normal place)
One thing that my American friend told me after she moved to Europe, is how small our appliances are compare to what Americans are used to. And I thought it was a bit weird as to why Americans love to have big appliances. We Europeans have the same love for appliances because they're convenient, but we also love to maximize the space for other things, hence the smaller appliances. Some of my American friends also find it "disgusting" to have washing machine in the kitchen (some places do this), which I don't understand why they thought having a washing room or "mud room" would make more sense, but to us it was just another wasted space that could have been used for a bigger family room or bigger bedroom, etc.
Yeah, a lot of Americans think anything that strays from their idea of a norm is immediately "disgusting or weird". That's American arrogance for ya! Hahaha 'Murica!
@JONES except Europeans are more exposed to different cultures in comparison to Americans. They travel more frequently, geographically closer to other countries, and more likely to be multi-lingual. You said so yourself, they colonized the 🌎, so they had more access to a bigger melting pot than Americans. Also, I am American, bud, so I know how groups in our country have a very insulated way of thinking in regards to culture and "norm".
Dear @BuzzFeed Bring Me I love the narration of the residents. Although some people do not like it, I think it makes these videos unique. What I can advise though is, try work on identifying which apartment you have switched to so that we can easily follow it. Stick to the sequence of apartments (perhaps in accordance to their cost or something) so that people may be able to know what to also expect and keep it standard in future episodes.
6:39 - you think *that's* a small kitchen? Well good luck if you ever decide to move to Japan - there is literally little to no counter space for meal prep and you can forget about having any cupboards overhead. If you're lucky you might get a few meager shelves above the fridge and that will be your storage, pantry, place for your utensils, cutlery etc.
I always wonder why people live in London, when the prices are so high!! We live just outside and have a 5 bedroom house in a good area for less a month than most of these!!! We commute into the city instead. It takes about 45 mins
I’m so confused how everyone got lost with this video, everything was in order each person showed each area and it was pretty obvious the order of ppl loool
Ada in Bow: $2132/month for 1 Bed / 1 Bath Jeff in Clapham: $2666/month for 2 Bed / 1 Bath + shared garden Sogol in Earl’s Court: $5066/month for 2 Bed / 2.5 Bath Amy in Harringay: $907/month in a community
Nice video 🤩I loved it;but I would like you to go to Portugal 🇵🇹 In cities like Lisbon,Porto and Coimbra to compare prices 👉wher life is a bt different than UK 🇬🇧 👍I can’t wait to see 😉you are doing amazing work 👉Well done 👏👏👏👏🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍💯
Very interesting. One tip, keep your toilet lid down unless you're actively using the toilet. It makes for bad pics & toilet spray potentially gets on everything. Yuck!
I think each area has its own bathroom. So one bathroom would be shared by about 6 people. That is not great, but it is not terrible. I think because they are all artists they are probably around a lot, and their likely wouldn’t be a morning time rush.
Sogol's flat is bloody stunning. I live up north, I pay not much more every 6 months for my rent than she does a month, yes you can earn more in London but I can spend more in Bradford. 😂
I would enjoy these more if you let each person explain their apartment before moving to the next apartment. Splicing each section together is annoying and I lose track of which apartment I'm looking at.
Yeah. Exactly.
Agreed! I hope they switch to this format
Agreeed I lost interest
Yes!!
Agree... no need to splice unless they all live in the same building and it's a comparison of how they arranged their spaces, etc.
As a Londoner - none of these flats look like any homes I've ever lived in, or seen.. maybe the Clapham one... maybe. Personally, think it's a really odd representation of London apartments :/
I was just about to make this comment too.
Actually they looked like all the ones I viewed (except that 4K one!). The warehouse one is really common in North London, creatives love it there and they're known for the best parties 😁 Weird they didn't show any standard houses though.
I used to live in that warehouse. Its a pretty popular/trendy thing to do now in london
SAME! especially the Earls Court apartment, which is a very rich and posh place to live and the residents there do not mix with other classes.
@@marinaelgueta443 Earl's Court used to be pretty grungy and full of bedsits and hostels for Aussies, Kiwis and South African backpackers and students. Now the area is too expensive and they have moved out to Clapham and other places. Since being gentrified, Earl's Court is now full of expats from France (overflow from Little Paris of South Kensington), Spain and Italy and quite a few Americans who can't afford Notting Hill or Holland Park. It is not really a posh place - there are still many social housing for the poor and working class while the middle classes are hanging on by the skin of their teeth.
Who’s idea was it to mix all of the apartment rooms up? I forgot which was what half way and stopped watching.
The editing is a mess
Apparently, it was a factory in the '80s, someone bought it and transformed it into a multi-spacial thingy, 20 people each paying him 680...great money if you ask me lol
@@emmru7073 She was talking about the editing and sequence of the film.
Same
This could have worked if they used the names of the neighborhoods to identify the flats, but instead they used the names of the residents, which didn’t help at all with my confusion 😂
19 people sharing only 3 bathrooms sounds stressful!
And kind of disgusting
Lol yeah totes. I wonder if the fact that they're all creatives helps - like if they're all working from home or have flexible working times etc there's not a mad rush at 8am aha
Introvert's Worst Nightmare
@@nix2747 extroverts too!!
Are we sure that house isn't just a game of the Sims lol
I’d love to see an island maybe Jamaica or Trinidad
yasss, Trinidad !!
🇹🇹 My country 😊
The British Virgin Islands, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla, Antigua, St. Barts. Other islands. Caribbean have so many cool places.
Oooo tht would be nice
Barbados!
This video was very hard to follow. Half the time I had no idea who was talking and couldn't remember how much rent each person paid for their space.
Alexandra4real yeah I wish they’d had a line across the bottom all the time with name-location-rent
Not to mention, the music became obnoxiously loud to the point where you couldn't hear the narration.
Poor editing
the music was so disturbing on top of that
You should include the average salary for each city as well to give people a better understanding of rent. Most Americans aren't used to how low the salaries are in Europe.
London is crazy expensive. Most of the time everyone pays half or more than half of their salary just for flat. People with lover incomes can't afford to rent a flat and can only afford to rent a room and that's still around 700/800 pm. Those ones who earn a bit more of course want their own space, and cheap basic 1 bedroom flat is around 1500/2000£. From my experience I can say that salary for young professionals varies from 1500- 4000£ per month (3/4k is really good salary)
Liga Ozolina yeah I live in London and the cost of living is ridiculously high. I find that a lot of Americans compare London to NYC but neglect the fact that the average salary in NYC is 76k whereas the average salary in London is about 36k.
Liga Ozolina £1500-2000 pm for a one bed? My husband and I pay £1000 pm in Lewisham. We drive and can be at Westfield Stratford in 20-30 mins. Greenwich is even closer. Price really depends on area which I don’t think this video really illustrates.
Agreed. The cost of living here vs the salary you can expect in some professions astounds me.
My partner and I live in Shepherds Bush and pay about £1.5k/month. We are fortunate to be really close to a Westfield and close to a number of tube stops which makes the journey to Central London 20-30 mins max. I could never imagine owning a car here, or being able to afford a house here. Living here also really makes me appreciate how good living in Australia is relative to London.
Sounds more like New York to me same exact reality
I would like to see how apartments look like in Stockholm and Helsinki
Most of these flats are cherry picked on the very "nice side". Most flats in London are super expensive and not nearly as nice as these and when you find one flat that's half decent you have be ready to throw cash faster than a cowboy draws his pistol.
Yeah not one of them mentioned mice which makes me suspicious
crikxouba, You thought these apts were nice, it gets worse than this? The only one I feel was decent was the 3800 pounds spot.
@@cjackson3019 Just imagine the "not nice" ones then...
If you actually need to move and don’t need to find a replacement for your place, do it now. Plenty of Airbnb’s driving local rent prices down 10-30% depending on the area, so you can lock some pretty good contracts.
Literally know so many people pay £1500+ for no heating 1 bed flats with at least 1 flight of stairs to get to it.
Take us to Dublin, Ireland.
I don’t like to hear their luggage
Lol
Rich people problems
I love that in the co-living space they share one cat, lol
The warehouse space with all the creatives looks like something out of a late 90s movie
Channel 4 actually had a series called Crashing with Phoebe Waller-Bridge that's about a similar living situation
I loved it it looked so so fun
i fucking love it.
I used to live pretty close to the warehouse shown and it’s pretty common in that area. But it’s bound to gentrify quickly
I would love to live in something like that
Apartments in Seoul would be interesting.
Definitely considering even big celebrities tend to live in a fairly normal apartments
I have lived in several apartments in seoul, their size varies and prices are very cheap!
But to actually buy an apartment in seoul is impossible unless you have lots of money saved up!
@@innet09 there's this youtuber called 'Poo In Korea' whose an Indian born n' bred in Italy. She is a working college student who bought an apartment in Seoul.. She mentioned apartments in Seoul are expensive to rent out so she bought one
I do not get why you got two Americans to do it, I feel like proper Londoners would be more entertaining -
Anyone who lives in the city owns the city. Being foreign doesn't mean you're not a 'proper' Londoner.
London is known as super diverse though so it's accurate to show people who are originally from another country 🙂 To be fair, we don't have tons of Americans... But like they said in the video some parts are more known for Italians, or Turkish people etc. 'Proper Londoner' wouldn't mean someone with a British accent 😃
I get getting people from across the world as London is very diverse but I wish it wasn’t just 2 Americans and rather one American and someone from elsewhere in the world
@@antarchi80 Yeah I agree with you. It would be better represent London to have more people that maybe have moved from different places in the world :)
If you wanted proper Londoners they should have looked for the needle in the haystack and that is the cockneys. Other “proper Londoners” too of course, but most of the inner-city and East Londoners have been replaced.
The woman who's renting the 3800 pound apartment trying to justify the amount she pays monthly: The nice thing too is that it has sliding doors in case you want some privacy in the kitchen.
Lol
Right! The walls don't even go all the way up to the roof.
The flat is awful
You should do Sydney, Australia! Or NYC
Really annoys me when people say they don’t like to see tourists.
Yeah, means you live somewhere nice that people want to see etc. I'm prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt though as I think she could well have been trying to think of a downside and was just like err loud suitcases
I can understand if it was someone born and raised in London and an actual londoner but she was American so it was a bit hypocritical. I know she lives there and isnt a tourist but shes a foreigner and that's pretty much the same as a tourist in my opinion.
@@jessw391 exacctly!! shes a whole tourist her self so I don't get it
Especially when they're tourists themselves 😏
Especially when she’s not even from here... and I can say that as I’m born and raised in London. 😂
This just makes me appreciate the spacious apartment I live in located in midtown Manhattan, New York. I love London charm but just visiting there I quickly realized how even more expensive it is to live there than my side of the pond.
new York city is more expensive, silly gal btw be my girl, your beautiful
@@c3realK1ll4h But incomes are also high compared to london.
I can not imagine renting, an apartment, for £3,800. But different folks different strokes I guess
I'll bet my last tenner, if her husband is American too, they are over here on contract and the company is picking up that rent bill. Paying nigh on 4k a month rent, you'd have to be earning 200k a year AT LEAST to justify the spend. That puts them in the top 1% of income earners in the country. Hardly an accurate representation of what the average Londoner lives like.
It does seem high but I was still glad to see the cost and appearance of a higher end apartment in comparison to all other rates.
@@woofolliesmydog8628 Umm, how'd you come to that conclusion? I was looking at Data Scientist jobs in London a couple of years ago and at 65-70K a year I would have been able to afford half her and her husbands rent all by myself. If they both work in highly skilled jobs, which is likely, the could easily afford $3,800 and would be nowhere near the 1 percent.
I would love to see Amsterdam!
The prices make me want to faint ... I live in Essex but I'm only a 45 minute train ride from central London, and average rent here for a 2 bed 1 bath is £900-£1000. Plus I get to leave the crowded hell-hole that is London at the end of the day.
Em - lucky you
Essex where? I a 1 bed for a single person would be even cheaper. But what about train fares?
@@Design____ByS near chafford hundred station, can get cheaper if you go further from the station but then you need to take the bus or get a car. Train is about £200 per month which I'm pretty sure is cheaper than from other big commuter cities such as brentwood
Why on earth would you pay a grand each for a flat like that in Clapham...
skitsot Because Clapham is great! Best area in London for anyone under 30.
Cos it's Clapham innit. XD Clapham has been up-and-coming for a while now, so property prices have gone through the roof.
@Courtney COOKE That's Fulham. Clapham is definitely not SLOANEY, It's known for young professionals, loads of pubs and bars and having the green space of the Common.
I am in love with Sogol's house. It's so Victorian and yet so modern.
Not very victorian, she's just kept the old architrave. Its been completely washed out in a varying shades of magnolia.
Yeah it was my favourite too, but $3800/mo is a $1M mortgage damn
The American *princess* turned me off completely! I stopped watching the video because of her . My suggestion is that after the introduction you get a professional to do the narratives.
You are easily bothered...
You have serious issues if you're that triggered by a stranger from a UA-cam video.
Half of me would love to live in the really nice £3800 one and the other half of me would LOVE to live in the 19 flatmates one...
i'd LOVE to see Montréal if you havent already...love this series!
As much as I love the hustle and bustle and living in London is simply fab, but the tremendous downside of it all is the overpriced rent. I used to pay around 900 gbp ON A ROOM in an apartment that I shared with my partner. In this tiny apartment, there were two more rooms (an en-suite and a regular room), a bathroom (that me, my partner and a flatmate had to share) and a tiny kitchen with NO ROOM to have a table and sit down therefore we had to eat in our rooms. The prices are ridiculous for what you get, that is the main reason we moved and we are very happy with the decision we made!
USA in NYC expensive AF in the college areas Philadelphia East coast -1500 in good areas for a 1 bedroom jumped by half since 1994.
Those apartments must have very high rents, I know several people who have lived in London and have never been able to find a decent apartment at a decent price. They told some funny stories about the situation of the apartments in that city, some really incredible, ah, ah!
For example, my friend's son wanted to learn English well (we are Italian) because he wanted to work as a mechanic in Formula 1 races, so he had enrolled in a school in London. He had to study during the day, work in a restaurant in the evening and would share an apartment with other people for about a year. When he moved to London his parents went with him to check that everything was in order. School and workplace were perfect, but the apartment ... It was something horrible! The kitchen was dirty, there were cockroaches everywhere and he should have slept in a bare room that had to be locked with a padlock! My friend's son claimed that everything was ok for him, but his parents were shocked and forced him to return to Italy. They aren't rich, he is a worker in a factory and she cleans a school, and they live in a small apartment, but in Italy an apartment like that would have been considered uninhabitable due to the total lack of hygiene and safety. The plan was to send him back to London a few months later, when they would find a better home for him, but three days after returning home he started working with a company that sells industrial mechanisms and is now the industrial representative for numerous companies in my region.The work is excellent and in the end he decided to study English in a school in my town run by a native speaker.. And still today his family enjoys telling the story of the horrible English apartment, ah, ah!
What you are describing is closer to the reality for most people in London than what's shown in the video.
I love the story. And I am glad his parents could make that decision for him at that particular time. Had he remained in London, he might not have his dream job. The competition in London when it comes to job hunting is fierce and overwhelming.
I'm sorry but that factory-living arrangement is a hot mess express!
Also, anyone who covers their pillows with their bed cover is a serial killers haha.
I've never lived in factory-living arrangement, nor will I ever contemplate doing it. Having said that, I DO cover my pillows with the bed cover but me no serial kille!!!
The woman is smart. Why throw away 5-10x the amount on rent when you could just have fun, save and buy your own place young
it really is i just think they should get it renovated and up to date and get better furniture and decor cause oh my god all those colors clashing and the bathroom i can't!!! it looked very dirty!!!
Hot mess express! Totally stealing this. 🤣🤣🤣. She's young though ... so guess it works for her.
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Visit apartments in Montreal!
Oui oui❗️
this is such a bad representation of london lol, nothing like the experience for the vast majority of londoners
Right?! They all have outside space ffs!
I thought you could get cheaper places
Lagos, Nigeria! 😊
I wish there more of these videos to feed my travel craving!! Canada, Netherlands, Scotland, Italy, Korea!! Literally anywhere!
The American woman in the video needs to know she too is a tourist here in London , just on a different visa 😉
if her husband and child are British (which I assume they are if they're four months old) then she's a permanent resident probably on the route to citizenship/naturalisation, so not a tourist lol
@@PlaceboEllie but there was a time she was
@@PlaceboEllie As an American, she just sounded super entitled. If I want to visit London as a tourist, why would a fellow American be judging me for that? She should get off her high horse.
@Isa Tailor right so not a tourist
@@JC-rl6ln god who cares
next ideas:
- Napoli/Italy
- Berlin/Germany
- Göteborg/Sweden
- Edinburgh/Scotland
- KIjev/Ukraine
- Sao Paulo/Brazil
and of course Budapest/Hungary :) ;)
That’s a really good vlog! Inspiring I live in London with my Hubby! We’re short of space I like the way these flats are laid out! That’s funny keeping clothes in hallway bcos bedroom is too small, totally get that!
I stayed at Earls Court in 99. Loved it it was lovely.
What an amazing space shared by 19 people how much fun and creative energy, love it 😍
OMG the lack of sleep in the communal place must be incredible......seriously my idea of hell!!
that american girl is rich af
SnEAkErHEaD Not really, Earl's Court was never a prestigious area, if she was in prime central London- Knightsbridge, Mayfair, Belgravia maybe she would be paying more than that for a week, let alone a month.
Spencer Wilton £3,800 for 2 people is no joke. Zone 2 is for rich people now
Spencer Wilton I would like to have seen an apartment in one of those areas too, just for an example.
Spencer Wilton those times have gone, even people in Brixton are priced out. Earls Court is now seen a prime and prestigious real estate in London
@@hannahreynolds7611 she did lived with 2 or 3 flatmates, though
I could just never live in London. I pay £325 a month for a two bedroom, two bathroom flat about 50 minutes train ride from London.
I love dipping into London for the odd weekend to get the best out of the city: restaurants, shows, museums then go back. I know people living in London who pay so much to live there they have no money to even go out. So what’s the point.
Honestly, i will always choose to pay more to live in London than to pay £325 to live outside 🤣
I live just outside London and I love it. Yes it’s zone 6 but I get a lot for my money and peace
@@barbaraeriavbe-ahonsi3291 Amen to that))
I live in Clapham, I'm a nurse and when I'm not working (before lockdown),I go out all the time?
Steph Powell if I had to live anywhere in London it will be Clapham. Love the place and everything it offers
In general, most of the flats in UK are tiny and very expensive to buy.
Unless you are very rich and can afford a penthouse apartment or a decent size apartment in a good location.
Amy's bedroom is GOALS!! 😍😍😱😱
Toronto!!!
Megan Crofts: Toronto is very clean and beautiful. The best place to live on this planet. 😊
D. Benders expensive as heck though
6 year Londoner here - the Earl's Court lady pays an average price for the neigborhood and there is always noise around here as it's pretty easy to access and loads of tourists walk around (which is funny because I've walked past her house several times)
To the girl living in Harringay - You guys have got great parties. Been to one for Halloween last year but didn't know it was such a community. Loved it though and I live just around the corner x
All in all I feel like these videos are great, but you guys should give them more time to explain their apartments and try to put a face with it - that way it's easier to put them together in the end. Instead of having to think about which bathroom belongs to which bedroom :)
There was zero representation of London or real London culture I.e what a normal Londoner of any background would be living in.
Yeah I really wanted a peek inside London but I feel like I’m watching something in N.Y
That is considered big... here, couldn't possibly move around... like, there is a space on the end of the bed to just enough to let the door swing... and if there is a bathroom attached, it's just few steps away from another side of your bed. I'm telling this is on downtown KL, Malaysia
cool... I am always thinking my place isn't decorated enough... but when I see this I feel alright!
The rubber duck collection is all I remember after this lol
Apartments in Stockholm, please!
Born and raised Londoner here, who grew up in Battersea (which borders Clapham). Just so you know, Clapham Common is not a park, it's a common (the clue's in the name!). Parks generally are surrounded by walls or fences and have specific entry points, which are often closed after dark. Traditionally commons are open areas where anyone can let their livestock graze. Although admittedly you rarely, if ever, see them used that way these days, especially in inner London!
I lived in London 10 years’ ago for 10 years and lived in a real mix of flats. I’m always curious when people describe anything as ‘typical’ for London, as the variation is immense, as you’d expect from such a city. My favourite flat was in Maida Vale. It had a garden, conservatory, beautiful woodwork, and the landlord was an antique dealer so the furniture was stunning. I was sort of subletting from my flatmate, but I think the landlord knew…
It's so interesting seeing these people who live in different places in the same city. The lady in Earl's court screams money. You can tell who is middle class and who is not. Body language and speech along with the get up can tell so much about a person even before u know anything about them.
@Georgie Moss very tasteless and bland. to be honest. even her decor. the whole house is off-white.
Everyone in this video is above middle class
@@user-dz2hj6jo5h yup agreed but there are different sub classes within middle class too. It's a wide spectrum lower middle class all the way up to upper middle class. Just above middle class is not a proper generalisation for anyone.
The warehouse situation is reminisce of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, California in 2016 - similar set up, same lifestyles. Many lives lost.
Do Melbourne and Auckland next! And Edinburgh.
The maker space is definitely up my alley. I wish I would have done something like that when I graduated college.
If you ever explore Panama City let me know and I can give a tour of my place in the center of the city.
That sounds so exciting.... I would love to know more about life in Panama 🖒
I really liked the place in the old dog biscuit factory, and it wasn't too bad for the price. The 20 young creatives place almost makes me me feel nauseous at the thought of living with that many people, even when I was a young creative.
I wonder how everyone in the apt with 19 persons are doing in the pandemic.
Probably all very glad to have such low rent given many of them probably had their livelihoods shattered.
I love the rubber duck collection
Living in that big shared space would be cool
What I learned from this is I won't be living in London... I need a bit more space
Making me miss my little flat in East London 😭....I'll be back.
I dont care about what you say but can listen to this accent for hours😍
I lived in Earl's Court 20 years ago, in a shared flat with an older guy (I'm female), thinking my bedroom had its own kitchen. Hahaha yeah right, I was actually renting a BED in the kitchen. Cool cool cool cool.... (And no, it wasn't cheap or even cheaper than another more normal place)
Island apartments. Interesting to see those.
One thing that my American friend told me after she moved to Europe, is how small our appliances are compare to what Americans are used to. And I thought it was a bit weird as to why Americans love to have big appliances. We Europeans have the same love for appliances because they're convenient, but we also love to maximize the space for other things, hence the smaller appliances. Some of my American friends also find it "disgusting" to have washing machine in the kitchen (some places do this), which I don't understand why they thought having a washing room or "mud room" would make more sense, but to us it was just another wasted space that could have been used for a bigger family room or bigger bedroom, etc.
Yeah, a lot of Americans think anything that strays from their idea of a norm is immediately "disgusting or weird". That's American arrogance for ya! Hahaha 'Murica!
JaeLUXE nyc is the exception given the limited space here. Most homes outside of the city do not have the washer and dryer in the kitchen.
@JONES except Europeans are more exposed to different cultures in comparison to Americans. They travel more frequently, geographically closer to other countries, and more likely to be multi-lingual. You said so yourself, they colonized the 🌎, so they had more access to a bigger melting pot than Americans. Also, I am American, bud, so I know how groups in our country have a very insulated way of thinking in regards to culture and "norm".
*Jeff´s fridge*
Me: Oh damn, those times I had such a full fridge
Jeff: Not much in there, we´ve eaten everything
You should do Egypt
Dubai, Berlin, Barcelona and Amsterdam please!
Everybody got the Tarno garden furniture from IKEA :O
You should do Toronto, we have the best condos/apartments in the world. The most skyscraper condo future builds in the world
Let’s do Norway! I’ll voluntere 🤩🙌🏻🇳🇴
I am feeling claustrophobic already!
The one with 19 people would be a nightmare for me. I'm such an introvert...I'd go crazy with practically no silent space for myself
19 ppl- 3 bathrooms = DISGUSTING
Same. Even the thought gives me anxiety.
hi, just a quick question, how many zones are there in London?
Maybe make these a longer series and actually tour the apartments?
I look forward for part 2. 😃
Wait. Is having a communal space/apartment common in London? Like is it safe to stay with 19 other people?
Holy moly it’s expensive to live there! 😮
I AM HAPPY I DON’T HAVE TO LIVE IS SUCH MATCHBOXES ANYMORE. WHAT A LIFE AND WHAT A RIPP OFF
Dear @BuzzFeed Bring Me
I love the narration of the residents. Although some people do not like it, I think it makes these videos unique. What I can advise though is, try work on identifying which apartment you have switched to so that we can easily follow it. Stick to the sequence of apartments (perhaps in accordance to their cost or something) so that people may be able to know what to also expect and keep it standard in future episodes.
6:39 - you think *that's* a small kitchen? Well good luck if you ever decide to move to Japan - there is literally little to no counter space for meal prep and you can forget about having any cupboards overhead. If you're lucky you might get a few meager shelves above the fridge and that will be your storage, pantry, place for your utensils, cutlery etc.
I always wonder why people live in London, when the prices are so high!! We live just outside and have a 5 bedroom house in a good area for less a month than most of these!!! We commute into the city instead. It takes about 45 mins
So much IKEA furniture! Love it!
I’m so confused how everyone got lost with this video, everything was in order each person showed each area and it was pretty obvious the order of ppl loool
Ada in Bow: $2132/month for 1 Bed / 1 Bath
Jeff in Clapham: $2666/month for 2 Bed / 1 Bath + shared garden
Sogol in Earl’s Court: $5066/month for 2 Bed / 2.5 Bath
Amy in Harringay: $907/month in a community
The warehouse looked amazing I wish I could find more of it on internet
Nice video 🤩I loved it;but I would like you to go to Portugal 🇵🇹 In cities like Lisbon,Porto and Coimbra to compare prices 👉wher life is a bt different than UK 🇬🇧 👍I can’t wait to see 😉you are doing amazing work 👉Well done 👏👏👏👏🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍💯
Can you do Glasgow or Edinburgh please?
Living with 19 others just has nononononono! Written all over it.
"It's known to be a rowdy area"
It's the Australians, it's always the Australians
Pretty awesome to watch. I am so glad I live in Romania 🇷🇴 So much cheaper here
Next up Berlin?
Very interesting. One tip, keep your toilet lid down unless you're actively using the toilet. It makes for bad pics & toilet spray potentially gets on everything. Yuck!
Amy’s place sounds like it would be populated with a bunch of insufferable hipsters... on the other hand, I wouldn’t mind sharing with Jeff 😏
Sogol’s home was lovely but they were all so small!
I’ve lived with 3 other roommates and that was interesting enough. I can’t imagine living with 19 people with 3 bathrooms.
I would loose my mind body and soul
I have major anxiety just thinking about it
I think each area has its own bathroom. So one bathroom would be shared by about 6 people. That is not great, but it is not terrible. I think because they are all artists they are probably around a lot, and their likely wouldn’t be a morning time rush.
Sogol's flat is bloody stunning. I live up north, I pay not much more every 6 months for my rent than she does a month, yes you can earn more in London but I can spend more in Bradford. 😂