So Much Further To Go

 With my finger on the pulse of current affairs, I’ve decided to write about what the entire world has been discussing 1 – namely the second in an occasional series about moving to London. You’ve decided to move to the greatest city on Earth (or at least within the M25), but London is big. You can’t just point Rightmove at 607 square miles and hope for the best unless you’ve got a real masochistic streak (or lots of time on your hands). With it harder than ever to either rent or buy in the city, you’ve really got to have your wits about you and focus your search with the kind of pinpoint accuracy usually reserved for targeted projectiles. To help aid your search and narrow down your options, here’s a handy guide to some of the areas of London you may be tempted by. Clapham You can’t stay at university forever, but you can move to Clapham and pretend you never left. A pilgrimage many graduates make from university cities across the north, round the South Circular, Clapham is ...

London is intimidating. It’s a large wary mass, hurriedly trying to go about its business before it starts raining. It has its own set of unwritten rules, that for the uninitiated can make any trip to the city a baffling ordeal. So, after almost six years of learning my way around life in the capital, I’ve taken a stab at pulling together my guide to moving to London. Over the next few posts, I’ll dispense invaluable (aka free) wisdom on whether you should move to London, where you should live, what there is to do, and many other vitally important questions. If you’re already here, then you can see whether you should have bothered. Ever since Dick Whittington and his cat travelled down the A1 in search of streets of gold, people have moved to London. Be it in search of fame, fortune or fun; there are a multitude of reasons why people flock here. But is it really a good idea? Let’s review why exactly you want to move. For a job. It is a sad reality that for certain careers, you wil...