The London Apartments is Justin A. Langlois.

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Beginning as a bedroom recording project in 2003 in Windsor, Ontario, The London Apartments have since released numerous EPs and singles on netlabels around the world, including Sundays in Spring and Sutemos, a debut album, "Romanticism Aside" on Sound of Pop Records and an E.P., "Logistics & Navigation" on Beggars Banquet.

The music video for Put A Jacket On (directed by Sean Wainsteim) from "Romanticism Aside" was featured on MuchMusic's the Wedge, while the video for Summer Takes All My Time (directed by Danielle Sabelli & J.Anthony Langlois) from "Logistics & Navigation" was added into rotation on MuchMusic, featured on the Indie Spotlight and the Wedge.

The London Apartments have toured across Canada, showcased at NXNE and CMW and played online audio-only shows from various living rooms.

Music for the upcoming new album, "Signals & Cities Are Forever", has been in the works for the better part of a year, slowly being completed, reworked and nurtured.

Langlois is currently entering the MFA program at the University of Windsor, Visual Arts, studying Integrated Media, while working for the environmental art project, Green Corridor. Windsor is still industrial, automotive and a point of terribly aware contrast between its urban core and surrounding countryside. Though certainly not a concept album, "Signals & Cities Are Forever" will frame its sound around this contrast, matching the hardscaped reality of the city with the delicate nature around it. There is much to come.

More information at http://thelondonapartments.com

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Streetlights Are Soldiers I scrape the pavement With my feet I move with the current…
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Comments from YouTube:

Mission Money Blog

4y↑2.9K

Some comments from a Londoner. Clapham Town is just Clapham. Earl’s Court is very expensive, the American woman is paying pretty average price for the neighbourhood- Zone 1 in general is very expensive. Amy’s living setup is unconventional BUT becoming more popular for young creatives. What this video missed out is the true essence of most of London rentals - drafty windows, foreign landlords and housemates stealing your coffee. The American complaining about tourists seems a little out of place.

Turboshot

@dukeofpkr when she said that I was dying laughing lol

PrincessoftheNile

2y↑1

All she complained about was their suitcases rolling around the cobblestone lol.

Kes Alexander

Jessica C yet...is stands that comp,aiming about ..tourists is rude ..she obviously has been one at some stage here

Asma Sultana

@Izlandprincess1 and with suitcases :D

Asma Sultana

2y↑2

"The American complaining about tourists seems a little out of place. " I thought same!

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Ashleigh Sanders

4y↑4.1K

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.

Cathy Aitken

2y↑1

And the soundtrack is distracting and covers the voices in places.

lady su

Legit

Gillian Brookwell

2y↑1

I agree, it's confusing the way they switch from one place to the other.

사믹샤

3y↑1

agree

Nicoletta Gennaro

3y↑1

I had absolutely no idea of which apartment was which at some point!

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PocketsOfLife

4y↑1.8K

I’d love to see an island maybe Jamaica or Trinidad

Ashleigh Spence

3y↑1

@Slaughter GAMING lol im jamaican too but itd be cool to see a physical visual spectrum of the different types of houses here (for example ranging from a nice apartment in uptown kingston to a regular two bedroom house on the outskirts of st. andrew, since they do them by cities)

Slaughter GAMING

3y↑1

No’! Jamaica is so bad. Please don’t. I’m Jamaican so you can know it’s bad when I say it.

Ashleigh Spence

3y↑2

@Dayne and it gets even cheaper out of those area

Ashleigh Spence

@Poem2myself rent is much cheaper if you're renting in jmd

Ashleigh Spence

Yessssssss

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Lissa Elle

4y↑697

as a born n bred Londoner, it hurts knowing having an average job and renting on your own is pretty much impossible. I've grown up in zone 2 (but closely bordered with zone 1) and to know that I'd have to move further out where I'm not used to the quieter suburban areas or have the need to live with a partner etc to even afford a ridiculously expensive place where you can't properly save is so disheartening. But they keep making rent prices in "urban areas" so expensive and drive out the locals or they create new housing/flats again that the average Londoner can't afford, but Miss "I don't like to hear tourists with their suitcases" from America can happily come in and take.

Butacup Pucatub

Well said. It’s interesting to see why rent is just so high. I think there are multiple factors (I could be wrong). Thanks for your comment.

Lissa Elle

@Gen Williams SE1 💛

Matheus Lima

Unfortunately, it's a global trend.

Gen Williams

Same - grew up in Bermondsey/Elephant & Castle but now live on the border of zone 4! I do really love where I live as it’s v green and has kind of a villagey feel, but the gentrification in this city and the cost of living is insane, and the gentrification pushes out a lot of communities of different origins who had generations of roots here.

Lissa Elle

@lesmoor kelly so I must move leave where I've lived my whole life to go somewhere else?

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Pippa Mayb

4y↑1.4K

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 :/

Sunshine312

Can i ask how dog friendly are London flats?

Bejewelled Battle Shorts

@Rita P: I have lived south of the river all my iife (Greenwich and Lewisham) in Edwardian conversion flats and a 60's low rise council build. I also lived in my late parents' three bed semi just off Lewisham High Street. I am currently in a Lee maisonette and don't see me moving again - getting too old to put up with the stress and strains. 😂

M X

Yeah, personally I think they are all much more modern than the average London flat.

Treymo xo

I thought the same about the Sydney episode

Curtis Michael

That's good to hear because I was not impressed with any of these apartments.

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Re

4y↑415

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.

Sasa Zivanovic 7

Please, i'm curious what is the average Salary in London?

Kirsty Brown

Depends on so many things including the job though. We have financial protection in work, meaning we can't be paid any less, no job roles rely on tips to pay bills. The lowest I can be paid at my age is just short of 12$ an hour. I'd rather be protected than be able to join more private companies. Wages are also spent differently here. I've never met anyone who has health insurance because we pay high taxes due to the NHS. When you put all of that into perspective. US citizens arent being paid more, at all. Not as a whole, only the rich are paid better.

Precious.A.K

@Unique Nurse but with higher pay

M X

3y↑3

Yeah, especially since a lot of people looking at the woman in the $3,800 flat are probably thinking that she's wealthy, when 60-70K with a spouse who makes at least the same would allow you to rent such a place.

Emma Slayden

In my home town you can get an average priced apartment for 1,050 and for college students I've seen it go all the way down to 499

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Matthias81

4y↑1.9K

Man, that place with 19 people could use a few more bathrooms.

christa

@Andrea Race Yes! 1 is not enough for 19 people to share!

Rose Lee

2y↑1

Imagine the flu bug hits

ShadoeLandman

2y↑2

If someone gets athletes foot or toenail fungus, it's going to spread like crazy, even if you wear shower shoes, because everyone is crammed in such tight spaces like the bathrooms. Probably people are walking around barefoot outside and it just feels cringy. I guess it doesn't matter because as an introvert I couldn't survive there without a breakdown every couple days.

Ne Gy

3y↑3

it seems like a place when you get very little privacy, but some people like it that way. They probably feel less alone and I understand that, but I would feel overwhelmed.
Also the kitchen in common... I lived like that 20 years ago and it was tiring and most people never cleaned their own stuff. It was a daily battle.
Most people bought at least a kettle or even a mini fridge in their room to make coffee in the morning for a bit of privacy.
Can you imagine being stuck there during quarantine?
There must be a mid way between all-in-common sharing a bathroom with 6 people and lost-on-top-of-a-mountain with your own private hole in the ground.

Supernova

3y↑2

My OCD would not let me survive in this place. I can't even imagine sharing 3 bathrooms with 19 people. So gross!! Yukk!!

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Phoeblington

4y↑1.3K

I do not get why you got two Americans to do it, I feel like proper Londoners would be more entertaining -

Merry Walsh

@grai I agree. Immigration quotas are important to keep societies stable, with priority to those who can contribute their skills, and not be a drain on public coffers. I live in Hawaii, one of the most, if not the most diverse populations on the planet; then you throw in hundreds of thousands of global tourists per day. The Hawaiian culture and way of life is disappearing, but what can be done about it?

Merry Walsh

Everywhere on the globe, people are on the move. Things change with time. Railing against change is like fighting the current when swimming in the ocean. Just go with the flow and get on with it.

grai

@ApMeils I think there's probably very little you can do

ApMeils

@grai oh dear, how will I sleep at night now? 'Everyone' hates me 😭

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Catherine Hughes

3y↑5

What an amazing space shared by 19 people how much fun and creative energy, love it 😍

Lenka 1234

4y↑7

I was house/flat sharing in London for 13years, moved more than 15 times. This video doesn't have much to do with the standard reality (apart from the converted wearhouse which really works only for creatives and incredibly easy going and chilled people ;)

BubblyPersonality11

4y↑46

Oddly enough my flat in Camden Town is about the same price as Adas, bigger and has more storage space and a balcony... All while being on the brink of zone one. Just makes me realize what a lucky pick it was. That being said: living in London is outrageously expensive and has become even more so over the last 10 years. At some point all the natives will flee.

Michael Mullin

Except for the ones in the welfare towers.

Jacqui Gibbons

Lots of us already have.

marie c.

4y↑3

Bubbly - that's what all of the developers want. So they can rob the new "gentrifiers" by charging outrageous rents

Lucy Howard

4y↑677

The Earl's Court flat is literally one large room with some dividers and a mezzanine, girl you've been robbed

Sabrina Comotto

Yes it's awful.

Lucy Howard

3y↑4

@Monalisa Biswal It says at the beginning the average rent in Earl's Court is £2.8-3.2k, she's paying for the 'renovation' which makes it look like a porn shoot location. Earl's Court, although central, isn't that nice & the transport links are mediocre

Katie Jane

3y↑4

Hi English chic here! You are absolutely right! Earl court is ridiculously expensive due do it’s historical significance and the amount of celebs and general rich people live there. Personally, I don’t understand having a smaller home in a fancy area when you could buy a nicer and bigger flat somewhere less fancy (but still safe)

T Coleman

4y↑2

Lol! Right!

Monalisa Biswal

4y↑13

The price is for the location not the rooms

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Lidiany Mafort

4y↑178

I would like to see how apartments look like in Stockholm and Helsinki

CuriousGirl5

4y↑6

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!

Nikki Gloom

4y↑1

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.

Loranne Arboleya

4y↑2

I'd love to see this again for just about any country. An island country, mountainous country, dessert country. I really enjoyed it. :) thanks

Ginaness

4y↑3

This seems like a tour of my own living journey - I started in student housing that looked like home one, then did communal living like the last girl, now I live with my partner in a home like the guy in the middle - I would love to end up in a home like the American woman, hopefully I'd be more gracious about it.

Brenda Rubio

4y↑6

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.

Sade O

This was cute and I love the way you organized it to see each living room, bathroom, bedroom, etc. 👌🏾

melissa klappe

4y↑4

It’s fun to see that they picked houses in areas that totally fit their personality.

Abi Wanyoike

4y↑75

"on the contrary , i don't love walking to the tube and seeing a bunch of tourists, hearing their suitcases rattle over the cobble stone." says the American. Lol, they do carry around their entitlement wherever they go. So should the tourist place their suitcase on their back or pay for an Uber that would be minimum £60 for a 15min drive.

Annie Streater

2y↑11

It’s less to do with her being American (which is an assumption by the way) and more to do with her being privileged.

mihaela huban

2y↑7

@abi wanyoike : totally agree with you, i,m here fuming on exactly this , an entitled american complaining about tourists in London . Well, i visit London when i can, few days almost every year, i adore this city, it’s a fountain of joy ❤️❤️❤️ , so i,m going to rattle my suitcase as soon as possible, so watch out Karen 😡

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Moleboheng Dalton

4y↑588

19 people sharing only 3 bathrooms sounds stressful!

Sei Warriors

That's often for uni students. Even in students hall have this situation.

Ella Eadig

Are we sure that house isn't just a game of the Sims lol

Niq Gee

4y↑27

Introvert's Worst Nightmare

Jenny

4y↑23

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

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Baadisa Abudulai

4y↑2

I went to london recently and I love seeing how much apartments are in the different areas!

Diane Scholes

4y↑555

Haha the irony of an American complaining about the noise of tourists and their suitcase noise!

Shanie

2y↑1

I thought the guy saying that his area was rowdy, then blaming the students and Australians was ironic because Americans are usually the tourists that people notice when they are o/s. I too would prefer to see flats belonging to Londoners and not expats.

Annie Streater

2y↑2

How is it ironic? Seems very xenophobic.

Rake Vanderzen

3y↑5

Right?! What a bloody sod she is!! STAY IN THE UK!

M X

3y↑14

@person. The video isn't about British people - it's about apartments in London lol

person.

3y↑3

@M X but they're not british..

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M P

This is an awesome concept. Please do other cities around the world.

Tysheen Orane

4y↑127

It's sad we live in a world where apartments space are getting smaller and smaller every year and you have to pay thousands of dollar to live in a box.

R

4y↑10

Well, with overpopulation it's expected.

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LUXRLD Beauty

4y↑1K

$3,800 pounds a month yikes
But the shared flat with 16 ppl giving me anxiety

rita holdorff

4y↑2

@lycralily same!!! i like a clean and modern decide with like wood floors and plants and big windows ya know but that place just looks so messy and there were so many colors and designs it was just a lot and very small as well!!

J RLOC

4y↑1

Nigel Marvin Pretty sure it was £.

A in United Kingdom

4y↑8

Nigel Marvin It’s £3,800 which is $4845.

Grace -

@Liza P No worries :D x

Liza P

4y↑5

Aisling - Wow that is so incredibly helpful, thank you! And that method makes SO much sense, both for visitors and residents who have questions about pricing, amenities, travel, etc. I appreciate your reply!

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Kristelle Batchelor

Hope you can make a San Diego version!! Would love to be a part of it 😊 I’m such a huge BuzzFeed fan!

Molly P

4y↑2

Living in London, or any major capital city, is definitely a lifestyle choice. I don’t think I would want it, for any more than a couple of years or for a degree. I’m from Sheffield and appreciate the city but also close access to national parks and gorgeous countryside, it’s the best of both worlds for me! Not to mention house prices are amazing here, I do feel bad for people who were born and bred in London and have basically no chance of buying because of houses owned as investments/tourists/pull factors for the rest of the country

Adam Leavitt

3y↑41

Nice video!! Very engaging from beginning to end. Nevertheless, businesses and investment are the easiest way to make money irrespective of which party makes it to the oval office..

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Bruce Mark

@Kendrick John If you've started trading with this man then you're not far from making profits

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Courtney

2y↑1

Love this video. I have been to London in the 1990's. I wish that I had spent more time there, but I was with my Girl Scout troop and we were due to arrive at a Girl Guide camp in Warwickshire, we were there for 3 days. There so many different styles of apartments and I like that this video looks at different neighborhoods in London.

AD C

I used to live in Earls Court. I rented a room while I was in the process of finding a permanent place. It was pretty big. 3 beds and a kitchenette. Shared garden. There were 3 shared bathrooms. Had to get used to that. Worked out better than I thought. It was always clean. Cleaned by management 3 times a week, every other day. I had a little cleaning kit I would always walk in there with, just in case.There used to be a big auditorium there. It was nice because there were lots of concerts and awards shows. Imagine being able to walk to all of the great concerts. That was years ago. It has since closed.
Became very ill, had to go back to the states before settling in a permanent place.
Good memories, I wish I could have stayed.

Mays Shalash

4y↑108

The warehouse space with all the creatives looks like something out of a late 90s movie

xfairy 🥀

4y↑3

I would love to live in something like that

houndoom

4y↑2

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

Vanessa Attah

4y↑7

i fucking love it.

Mathias

4y↑5

I loved it it looked so so fun

A Name

4y↑3

Channel 4 actually had a series called Crashing with Phoebe Waller-Bridge that's about a similar living situation

Gurlgotstyle

4y↑3

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!

Melted ice cream

The warehouse looked amazing I wish I could find more of it on internet

H A N A

That was interesting to watch, please do a Scandinavian episode, especially Copenhagen!

Mera Aleta

4y↑53

I love that in the co-living space they share one cat, lol

Holyfox

Fun fact: In Europe, the posh living areas were and still are in the western part of the city.
The wind comes mostly from the west and so the wealthy people hadn’t to smell the dirty, smoky air from the poor,
who lived east.
Don’t know if this applies to the whole western hemisphere,
but that’s why the old, beautiful residential buildings are mostly in the western part.

Hannah Christina

4y↑155

Apartments in Seoul would be interesting.

PYaariii Lal from India

@Michelle Louise 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

Michelle Louise

4y↑2

But to actually buy an apartment in seoul is impossible unless you have lots of money saved up!

Michelle Louise

I have lived in several apartments in seoul, their size varies and prices are very cheap!

Ishika

4y↑4

Definitely considering even big celebrities tend to live in a fairly normal apartments

T D.I

4y↑3

I'm born and bred in London and i've always wanted to live in a city apartment but London is ridiculously expensive for what they offer. The new developments popping up look nicer but still WAY too expensive for what it's worth. You might as well struggle and save to buy a house

Glowing Up

4y↑182

Watching this as a born and bred Londoner is interesting to say the least

xAkira X ಠ_ಠ

4y↑1

@Mina PH Depends where you live tbh it aint all that in my opinion

Mina PH

4y↑2

I really want to live in London in the future I wish I can afford it 😇

Kim Mayroze

4y↑1

British understatement ;-)

Ishika

4y↑2

For real

xAkira X ಠ_ಠ

4y↑2

For real!

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Shelah Stanford

4y↑15

Love the way Amy gets to live. I would love to live like that.

averi price

3y↑10

i'd LOVE to see Montréal if you havent already...love this series!

mushroomqueen

4y↑429

£3800 a month?? Jesus, you may as well be paying off a mortgage

yluc Kh

@Maia "modern but Victorian" could be the conservative slogan

Gewglesux

Average in Parts of SanFrancisco

MaryAnne Brown

T M-10 Yes. That is exactly what I thought.

Gewglesux

@Mr Phyz i think you might be right.

Mr Phyz

4y↑2

amzz xx precisely my point. Try getting one in 2020. Not a chance.

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Calle

4y↑134

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

TrueGamerVed

2y↑2

The flat is awful

Ella Eadig

3y↑2

Right! The walls don't even go all the way up to the roof.

Felice Chan

It was really different for me when I moved from LA to Germany. You don’t really think about it often, but a lot of things are different in other countries

Mokgethi Kabelo Mogatosi

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.

Whitney M.

I hate the idea of sharing my space with a ton of other people, yet somehow Amy's flat with the 16 housemates was my favorite. So fun, so colorful!

Adeola Wilson

4y↑2

The warehouse set up with that many people and everything on top of each other, everything everywhere, everything communal etc is my actual idea of hell. It would mess me up. Hat off to anyone that can find peace in such a place. Not for me, but each to their own, and my respect to the creatives that can do it.

dukeofpkr

4y↑199

The American woman in the video needs to know she too is a tourist here in London , just on a different visa 😉

L H

@Amy G oh she’s American lol

artcgirl

@Kelbie Champion.Sturgis I could see that.

Kelbie Champion.Sturgis

2y↑1

@artcgirl Not all of us Americans are like that .. I live in California I'm blessed to even have housing at all it's more if not equally expensive here we don't have a middle class there's rich poor & homeless.. I actually like the tourists .. She would probably would prefer them if walking outside seeing a line of tents for several miles down the sidewalk & smelling trash, drugs & human waste ..

Amy G

2y↑5

Y’all are so judgmental, wow. She could very well be Canadian, which would make her part of the commonwealth.

Ariyal sirrah

They got money so....I’m not surprised she’s complaining about hearing other people 😂

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BlaqueGyrl

4y↑5

I look forward for part 2. 😃

Kim Mayroze

It would be great to show apartments in Tel Aviv and in Jerusalem. Very different cities with diverse neighbourhoods.

P M

Very interesting. Also odd that only renters were interviewed. Hopefully you'll include owners at some point.

Laura Bartha

It would be great to see some more capitals of Europe

T L

4y↑3

I'd love to see a video of apartments in Denmark.

Gazwilliams

4y↑96

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.

Akshor

3y↑1

If you work in central london, it makes more sense to live in the center. Travelling outside the city is lengthy and tiring and who wants to use the dirty tube commuting for 1.5 hrs, apart from the extra travel costs. Live near your work and you can walk to office in london. Saves a lot of money.

casualviewer

3y↑1

I think people live in london coz they work there. The 50-minute commute to and fro would be too much

Dann11

4y↑2

Where do you live? Maybe I can buy something cheap there from the money I make living abroad.

MaryAnne Brown

4y↑6

Gazwilliams £325 for two bedroom? Are you sure their isn’t a 1 at the beginning of that number? Just out of curiosity, what area is this? (You don’t have to say a town-I am in the US and am just curious as to the big discrepancy).

J RLOC

4y↑3

Steph Powell Steph Powell I was posting my opinion which I believed was generally understood but just in case, I have modified the post to include the phrase “In my opinion,” so there are no other misunderstandings.

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minimooster

4y↑1

Strikes me as strange that a video about Londoners' apartments features as many Americans as English people. London's a really diverse city, surely you could have found people from different backgrounds

bronte1987

These are beautiful apartments... I really like the big windows. 🙂

crikxouba

4y↑375

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.

Bobby Gathergood

Years ago when I was looking at flats all over London half of them weren't fit for gassing rats in

J RLOC

4y↑1

theuniverselovesabeliever Many areas in the states are like that too. I own a house now for which six offers landed the very day that I looked at it and I had less than six hours to decide.

J RLOC

C Jackson And it seemed a bit cramped.

theuniverselovesabeliever

4y↑4

It's true there are so many dives in London, but these kind of properties exist they r just on the market for about 10 seconds 🤣 the flats I lived in in London there was no time to deliberate, once I found a good one, if was like OK where do I put the deposit down, rn.

Sarah K

4y↑1

Literally know so many people pay £1500+ for no heating 1 bed flats with at least 1 flight of stairs to get to it.

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Helen García

4y↑1

London flatshare edition would be interesting. Showing the reality of houses being rented to as many people as possible, no living rooms, shared bathrooms and high rent. I would like to see something more real. Show me how people live in south(/)east, for example.

Nia Fowler-Galloway

3y↑1

I wish there more of these videos to feed my travel craving!! Canada, Netherlands, Scotland, Italy, Korea!! Literally anywhere!

G.R

it was real hard to find out who was who most of the time. also i wanted to see more of the communal space the one that had a lot of people, you didnt show much of that one. mostly just the original houses.

Amanda F.

The maker space is definitely up my alley. I wish I would have done something like that when I graduated college.

Casey Louise

4y↑57

You should do Sydney, Australia! Or NYC

amber kal

4y↑52

I would love to see Amsterdam!

Liv Hema

4y↑1

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 :)

Diana Cierpich

I’d love to see apartments in Paris or Spain

missalicesmiles

3y↑1

As an American living in the Bay Area, I can't get over how small these apartments are.

Prateeti Barua

3y↑3

I am in love with Sogol's house. It's so Victorian and yet so modern.

Alex

Yeah it was my favourite too, but $3800/mo is a $1M mortgage damn

04nbod

2y↑1

Not very victorian, she's just kept the old architrave. Its been completely washed out in a varying shades of magnolia.

Ezada Sinn

Pretty awesome to watch. I am so glad I live in Romania 🇷🇴 So much cheaper here

Shanie

I'd like to see some apartments in Amsterdam and Australia.

houndoom

That’s so cool, I used to live in Harringay, near the warehouses and always looked at them thinking how it would be to live in one. I wouldn’t ever, but it’s interesting. Very hipster crowd, but the area is not very nice, a bit scary at night and far from central London. Great Turkish food and very close to Finsbury Park though.

Andy Baker

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!

manvitha S

4y↑2.6K

ahh..students, Australians and gay people....the rowdy people

Ella Eadig

True though lol

Loretta Stradley

😆😆

Anna

I didn't realise gay was a personality 😂

BebitaMira305

Maybe roudy for him means too nosy?

Kayla

I died 😂

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MJ _Dolman

I don't know, they looked like generic, expensive, modern apartments in any big city? Very very expensive, but I would be much more interested in seeing what apartments in old buildings in London look like, where they have peculiar plumbing and the architecture is all kind of jumbled.

Choekyi Deshar

4y↑114

Take us to Dublin, Ireland.

Mello

4y↑11

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!

kamaldeen iyanda

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.

crikxouba

4y↑4

What you are describing is closer to the reality for most people in London than what's shown in the video.

M C

4y↑22

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...

Axel Lisenstain

Could we have a version with a larger sample? Like some 4000 apartments instead of 4? I've never seen a single door in London that didn't make me curious.

Jessa Lyn

4y↑9

I’ve lived with 3 other roommates and that was interesting enough. I can’t imagine living with 19 people with 3 bathrooms.

MaryAnne Brown

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.

Ren

4y↑1

I have major anxiety just thinking about it

Adeola Wilson

4y↑1

I would loose my mind body and soul

ntandokazi pamani

I'd love to see some South African apartments featured.

Seth Shezi

If you do Cape Town. I can show you my place. It’s posh, in a fun area, stupidly tiny, with spectacular sea views - you can’t help fall in love with! So here’s one of the four for a Cape Town episode 🤞🏾

koko nana

I think it'd be more interesting if you choose those who born and brought up as Londoners to show us their apartments.

Heather Hargleroad

I’d like to see one done for New Zealand or for Edinburgh

Insect Chart

4y↑197

Really annoys me when people say they don’t like to see tourists.

Akaman

3y↑2

Yeah like they better not travel like ever

Matilda Yeboah

Because you guys annoys us

Dee

4y↑5

Same! It makes me feel very unwelcomed in the city. Like, you should be happy you live somewhere many people want to see and are willing to spend their money! Don't get me wrong, the sound of loud suitcases is annoying, but I'd give anything to be able to live in London, and especially having my own space.

Next Please

4y↑4

ikr! you're living in a major city what else did you expect

When in doubt, be a unicorn

4y↑2

Especially when she’s not even from here... and I can say that as I’m born and raised in London. 😂

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Anitra

4y↑941

Who’s idea was it to mix all of the apartment rooms up? I forgot which was what half way and stopped watching.

Jo Maema

4y↑2

Especially when the guides were not on screen.

LQL

4y↑4

Right. Guess they were trying to be creative -- not realizing straight forward is best way to be creative with things like this.

Anitra

4y↑1

MsCorpora Agree. Someone else should have edited this video

MsCorpora

4y↑8

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 😂

ligets

4y↑1

Same

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Colton Weiss

So much IKEA furniture! Love it!

artificialpanda

4y↑16

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.

Nicole A

@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".

cornellcornell1

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.

Nicole A

4y↑5

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!

lalalalalalalala8111

4y↑42

Do Dublin, Ireland next! I live there!

Elena Demireva

These seem more like unique housing situations on the expensive side, rather than a normal representation of London flatshares.

compendious succient

4y↑98

I can not imagine renting, an apartment, for £3,800. But different folks different strokes I guess

M X

@Woof Olliesmydog 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.

J RLOC

4y↑1

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.

Woof Olliesmydog

4y↑25

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.

Nhi Nguyen

4y↑2

This is definitely not a representation of London housing. I have lived in 3 different properties during the past 4 years, none of them came even close to this.

And honestly, don't spend too much on accommodation, especially bc you don't own it.

twothirdstrio

Aw, I had a great time in London and stayed around Earl's Court but I didn't know people had that perception towards tourists with luggages.

Daniel

4y↑1

We don’t. I think that was a joke (although she did sound kinda serious). Personally, I love seeing tourists enjoying the city.

Olajumoke Aruwajoye

4y↑1

I would love to see apartment in Lagos, Nigeria next.

David Christopher

I actually like the idea of the warehouse.

DOLLZ DREAMS

4y↑2

the warehouse one looks crazy! couldn't be dealing with that. sharing with all those people 😂 looks fun but only for a few months.. then it would drive me mad.

Danny30011980

Can you do one on Dublin and one on Budapest?

Noemie ZB

4y↑53

Wooow I would so do this in Paris!!

Helen3691

BuzzFeed, I like this series but I would find it more interesting if I know where these people fit on the economic scale. In other words, can I afford a flat in London (or Madrid or wherever) if I wait tables at a modest restaurant versus being a nurse or editor or whatever.