Students Living In Bedsits?

[mexico1970]

It isn't a new thing but it's a new thing to complain about.

Houses without lounges are a reality for renters

Nearly a third of homes advertised on a property sharing website had no living room.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[117 M34]

They aren't bedsits. They are HMOs

 

[mexico1970]

They aren't bedsits. They are HMOs

Yeah it's just a word, most of the people I knew lived in one room with a shared communal area and shared toilet etc.

Most bedsits were appalling, but these people aren't exactly putting down roots.

 

[Cityfan]

I lived in flats with no living rooms for virtually my entire 20's and it was hardly a hardship.
Not saying that all flats like this are pleasant to live in but there are many that are.

 

[johnny crossan]

My student bedsit was so small I called it a bedstand.

 

[mexico1970]

My student bedsit was so small I called it a bedstand.

Bedsits were called bedsits for a reason mate, nowadays they want a swimming pool and an en fucking suite :)

 

[Kinkybyname]

I am so shocked... are these mostly owned by the Sheikh? I'd write to my MP if he wasn't such a useless money-grubbing ****

 

[Barcon]

My student bedsit was so small I called it a bedstand.

Luxury. Mine was a chairsit.

 

[TinFoilHat]

 

[blueparrot]

This story isn’t about students in bedsits is it?

 

[Kinkybyname]

students dying in bedsits... now you have a thread

 

[BlueMoonday]

Cry me a river. This is how I spent my 20s. I worked hard and saved up for a deposit to get a house which I've enjoyed living in for the past 7 years.

 

[Blue Mist]

Cry me a river. This is how I spent my 20s. I worked hard and saved up for a deposit to get a house which I've enjoyed living in for the past 7 years.

A house ! Luxury. I lived in a shoe box but it were a house to me.

(Are Monty Python sketches the most quoted on here ? Not even Airplane with 'don't call me Shirley' surely doesn't come close)

 

[Gaz in Zurich]

Called studio flats aren't they? as long as they are clean what's the problem. Still use them now when I work away

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Lived in a bedsit in Sale when I left home aged 20.
Victorian house done up into 3 flats and one bedsit. Waited for 4 years for one of those in an apartment to move out so I could move into an apartment, and finally did and the fucker sold up giving us 6 months notice!
$19 a week back in 1984

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

 

[mexico1970]

Lived in a bedsit in Sale when I left home aged 20.
Victorian house done up into 3 flats and one bedsit. Waited for 4 years for one of those in an apartment to move out so I could move into an apartment, and finally did and the fucker sold up giving us 6 months notice!
$19 a week back in 1984

There were loads of them on Barlow Moor Rd, I got my first bedsit (Without swimming bath and en suite) in around 75 and it cost £8.50 a week :)

 

[RadcliffeRick]

students dying in bedsits... now you have a thread

 

[beast]

A house ! Luxury. I lived in a shoe box but it were a house to me.

(Are Monty Python sketches the most quoted on here ? Not even Airplane with 'don't call me Shirley' surely doesn't come close)

It doesn't, and don't call me Shirley

 

[Blumooniac]

Students with cars. CARS! (Caps lock courtesy of Daily Fail.) Now there's a thing. Not bangers either. Quite a few round my way- Withington/West Didsbury. One of them, and I know they're student houses, has a private plate! Admittedly, it's a Polo but WTF? At least they do the local economy good. Lol.