Where to live in London when working in the city?

Hy guys,
I'll be starting a grad scheme in september in London and was wondering what might be a cool place to live close to liverpool street station. Ideally, I'd like to be able to go to work by foot... Do you have any idea of the price range and cool neighbourhoods?

Cheers

 

Starting at RBS, UBS or DB? There are a lot of options in Shoreditch (albeit it is not THE most amazing neighborhood in comparison to some others, but considered 'up and coming') or if you want even closer - Spitalfields or on Commercial Road (all of these are more or less the same area). In short, anywhere slightly to the East from the City/Bishopsgate for you.

EDIT: Price range - depends entirely whether you want a studio flat to yourself or are you willing to share - you probably won't find a nice studio for less than £1,200/month, but you could get some great options in a 2 bedroom apartment for £800/month or so.

 

The tube is so quick and easy! Clapham is an awesome place and you can take the Northern Line which is admittedly horrendous but gets you from Clapham Common to Bank or Moorgate (20mins) where you can either go one more stop to Lpool St or just walk there (5mins). Good nightlife, fairly safe, not too expensive (£600-800 a month is fine, you can spend more though!) All your shopping/pub/restaurant needs too. The common is good for running and sport too!

The thing to be aware of when looking at your commute is how far you are from the station, get the City Mapper app on your smartphone and when looking at a place pop the address in and pop your work address in (set your arrival time - this is important as obviously it's a lot busier in the morning!) and it will tell you all your options with regards to transport.

Good luck!

 

I really hope that by good nightlife you aren't referring to Infernos...

Clapham could be a suggestion, but if you're in an M&A team, the commute alone will drive you crazy. Huge crowds there in the morning usually.

I'd suggest somewhere along the lines of what TheFamousTrader suggested if I were you. If in a less hour intensive team however, Clapham could be good.

 

Maybe. ;)

Very true about the commute, the key thing and the OP is the only person that can make this decision is how much weight you put on commuting vs your home & surroundings, it's a huge ball ache but I personally think it's worth it. I also only work 8.30-6.30 on average, so it's less of a big deal for me as I can actually enjoy the area in the evenings.

 

Thx guys for all your inputs. I won't be in an M&A team but in DCM, so hours won't be as extensive (it'll still be much more than 8:30 to 6:30 though). I already thought of shoreditch and everything east of liverpool street, but I'm not sure of where to find flatshares (as in using which websites?). Also, what do you think of Old street?

 

Sorry only just saw this, if you're going to use that spare room website look about two months max before hand, there are so many places and the turnover is huge so the earliest lettings tend to be advertised about 8 weeks in advance, majority are more like 2-4 weeks in advance! Good luck.

 

Hey that's fine. I've not had an account on WSO for long which is why I'm unable to inbox you. Do get in touch with me directly if you can. Regarding areas to live in; the ones you mentioned are on top of my list as well. On the flat share front, not really sure what I want at this stage. Have to say though, Angel does look like the best bet. What about you?

 
another monkey:
Hi all,

I will start my IBD analyst job in London this July, together with a buddy who will also work as an analyst in IBD. I don't know London at all, and we need to find appropriate accommodation. Would appreciate to hear your input on where it's best to live in London.

What am I looking for?

  1. I will be working in Canary Wharf, Flatmate will be working in the City (Moorgate station). I would take a 30 min door-to-door commute (it takes about 10 min from Canary wharf station to my firm)
  2. Area should be nice: i.e. not to far away from where something's going on on the weekends, but also not too loud and busy. Compared to NYC I would say UWS, or even more specifically Morningside Heights (always great to have a Uni around), or the area around 72nd street, comes close to what I'm looking for .
  3. The area should be relatively safe. By relatively safe, I mean Manhattan-safe (everything below 125th street, excluding the projects in the LES).

Also, would appreciate to hear how other monkeys here went about searching an apartment in London. Thanks!

Around Baker St probably meets most of your criteria, its on the Jubilee line so you will be able to go directly to CW and your friend will also have a very good commute from there as well (15 mins). Gumtree is the equivalent of craigslist if you want to go down that route, definitely not a rental market that is as heavily brokered as manhattan. Send me a message if you have any questions.

 

Limehouse

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Don't live in Limehouse. Just looked at flats there. Not pleasant. Try and get somewhere on the DLR line as this will take you straight to Canary Wharf or to Bank for the City. I'd recommend Bow, Stratford, Islington, Poplar and Isle of Dogs.

Use Rightmove, Gumtree and FindaProperty.

You looked at the wrong flats then. If you had looked round any of the flats around the Basin or with river views you'd realize how misguided your assessment of Limehouse is.

You can't recommend Stratford, Bow or Poplar and say Limehouse isn't nice, obviously need to stretch your budget somewhat.

"After you work on Wall Street it’s a choice, would you rather work at McDonalds or on the sell-side? I would choose McDonalds over the sell-side.” - David Tepper
 

Dude what's in Richmond? Honestly curious. Live on / near the overground, don't wana rely on the district line for out there.

"After you work on Wall Street it’s a choice, would you rather work at McDonalds or on the sell-side? I would choose McDonalds over the sell-side.” - David Tepper
 

If you're willing to commute from Baron's Court and you have the budget, you could also shoot for the South Ken and Gloucester Road tube stations. That means you could live in the area south of High St. Kensington (I used to live there but my office was in Mayfair-I used to live between High St and the Cromwell Road and loved it-say hi to the Devonshire Arms for me) and walk to the Gloucester Road or Earl's Court station, the neighborhoods south of there (Earl's Court itself? meh), or anywhere near the South Ken station. There are a lot of younger people in the area and it's an easy tube/bus to get into Covent Gardens/Soho at nights and weekends and not a horribly expensive taxi ride late at night if you don't want to take the drunk bus.

 

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