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  London, England, United Kingdom
Thursday, September 11, 2008

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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Mike is sick	Looks good, but too small, and weird landlord	Looks good, but too small, and weird landlord	Looks good, but too small, and weird landlord
Looks good, but too small, and weird landlord	Looks good, but too small, and weird landlord	Looks good, but too small, and weird landlord	Looks good, but too small, and weird landlord
Promising new area of London	Property 2 Lots of Light, but no furniture	Property 2 Cool Kitchen	Property 2 Long Hallway-but well lit
Property 2 Would this closet work?	Property 2 A strange layout, but well lit	Property 3 Mildew Door!	Property 4 I call this Fancy Street
Property 4 Fancy Street 2	Property 4 This place was awesome!	Property 4 The ENTIRE WALL folded away	Property 4 To reveal a great garden
Property 4 with a nomes!	Property 4 High Quality interior	Property 4 Though with tiny rooms	Property 4 spic and span bathroom
Why not this place? MOST EXPENSIVE EVER	Property 5 A New Hope! Mike discovers the Post.	Property 5 Leafy!	Property 5 Promising yard...
Property 5 Mike peers thru to the garden	Property 5 small kitchen--but mostly new!	Property 5 a quiet street!	Property 5 Some girl we happned to be following
Property 5 still following	Property 5 Mike discovers the macro setting	Property 5 Naomi finds the subjects	Property 5 Convenient...
Property 5 Neighborhoodly...	Property 5 Neighborhoodly...	Property 5	Property 5 Right out front
Property 5 Right out front	Property 5 Our New Home? To be continued...	A celebratory Portugeese dinner!	Find out more tomorrow...
We'll update soon!

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