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[gravitas_shortfall]

I may well rent a warehouse. Some places have a kind of deal where you get the warehouse for a relatively cheap price, the landlord builds a kitchen/bathroom/whatever he doesn't mind, gives a month or three rent-free, and the tenants build the rest as they please, which is totally awesome in a design-your-own-house kind of way.

Of course, the tenants pay for most of the building, but since the contracts usually run for at least 3 or 5 years, it's still easily 10 or 15,000 pounds saved per person over living an average house - and for that saving you get to live in a 500sq metres flat, have a bedroom of 40sq metres, and plenty, plenty of space to play bowling, build a boat, store the Royal Theatre costume collection, or reenact Austerlitz with life-sized tin soldiers. 10 minutes away from a Zone 2 North London tube. With awesome people.

Speaking of which, we'd need 2 or 3 more to make it both cheap and lovingly familial. Are you awesome? Do you know someone who is? Would you like to live in a warehouse and be free and happy? All offers considered!

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[lucylle.livejournal.com]

Damn, that sounds good. Good luck with the decorating part! :-)

I'd love to do the same thing here...

[3-nic.livejournal.com]

You can't. Only in London. Move!

[jennizane.livejournal.com]

Nic, that sounds fantastic, good luck my dear. However I am shocked at your usage of the word 'awesome'...I didn't think you had it in you. Titter.

London sounds wonderful. I hope you are well kind sir.

[3-nic.livejournal.com]

Ah, I am awesome ;-) No warehouse for me this time, they are in short supply, but there's a lovely Victorian house with our name on the contract :)

What are you up to these days?

[jennizane.livejournal.com]

Aha, yes, indeed Nic, you are totally awesome. :)

Congratulations on your new Victorian flat. I bet it's beautiful! Where in London will you be living? What are you up to these days by the way? I am curious and please fill me in!

Me, living in San Francisco, working with puppies and still skulking around goth clubs every so often (as I was last Saturday) still living the dream. ;) My birthday just passed as well. I miss Europe! But things are good in SF.