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Gruelling Day: Pic Dump to show overwhelmingness
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There are stories with our pictures as usual! Click the first picture to start the (unusually long) slideshow.
What a week! Naomi and I (mostly Naomi) have been working tirelessly to find housing. Naomi has been lining up 4-6 flats per day in neighborhoods across London, and I have been sick and accompanying her. Notting Hill was too busy and urban (not to mention ridiculously expensive). St. John's Wood was more like Beverly Hills than Burlingame (but without the nice cars somehow). Willesden Green was neither green nor acceptable. We physically looked in Acton, North and South Hampstead, North and South Kensignton, and e-looked in a hundred other neighborhoods. Eventually, we decided that 1) we needed more than a shoebox, and indeed more than a studio. 2) We couldn't afford a 1 bedroom in central London. 3) If we were to travel to the first place we could afford a 1 bedroom, we couldn't afford the constant danger of crime. 4) if we were willing to accept travelling to the first safe, affordable 1 bedroom area in London at 35 minutes door-to-door, we might as well tack on a few minutes of train time and be 45-50 minutes away in a green, safe, quiet, family-friendly, park-centric neighborhood. And thus we discovered Ealing. It isn't Burlingame, but it is about as close as we have seen in London, and that is really saying something considering the neighborhoods we've run from.
We will still be in London proper, and have now put down an offer on a flat. I am going to upload a slew of pictures just to illustrate how overwhelming nature of our task was. This is only the best apartments, as the worst and the mediocre we didn't bother to photograph. This is an example of just one day; the last and best day. We viewed this many or more everyday for the last two weeks.
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Feel For You Guys (reply)
Sep 13, 2008 22:33 EST by breabe
Wow, what madness!!! I really hope that place in Ealing works out. If I may quote a great movie.
'Um, I don't know if I can do this.'
Response,'That's how all great...stories begin!'
- Say Anything 1980something.
I will be keeping my fingers crossed for you. Thanks for the updates!!!
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