Seeking for a flat

If you're seeking for a flat here in London, be prepared, is not going to be easy.

Just as the Rio de Janeiro, London is a city with more people than their land allow and everyone wants to stay close to downtown, of course. This complicated mathematics results in a impossible rent, which clearly not worth its price. The cute little houses that we identify as London costs a lot and because of that most of those houses are divided into smalls flats floor, so you have the most surreal plants I've ever seen.

In attempting to earn some extra bucks, many landlords convert the living room into a room, so you will be sharing a flat with people you don't know and will never see, unless you bump into them in the queue at the bathroom or kitchen.

This configuration is the worst cuz they usually leave the flats in the hands of agencies, brokers who put people who do not know each other to share a space that no one cares, because it doesn't belong to anyone. So I go to the agency and the guy shows me a room in an flat where are five people living there of different nationalities and those residents do not have the slightest idea who will be the new flatmate. So, fuck that the toilet is all fucked up and kitchen either, nobody care, nobody charges anything from anybody, and apparently no one gives a damn about living in hell.

And man, believe me, when Irvine Welsh wrote the scene "the worst toilet in Scotland" he certainly thought about some of those bathrooms I've seen.FUCK!

Sure there is always the option to live in normal houses, whose residents will select the new tenant, but these homes are expensive and when they announce, boom, they're already gone. Not to mention it's normal to ask two months rent in advance. A kind of bail, right? Except that each of these filthy little room goes in the base of 540 pounds, in a wider region of East London, depending on the flat, you can pay up to 700 per week!

All to say that 's being hard, to say least. Every time I see a place like this I get more discouraged and wanting to leave this city. But I'm Brazilian and I never give up and, hopefully, next week I will have some good news. Wish me luck