Hi I am just catching up w/ JavaPosse thread. Sorry I have been on a California tour of JavaOne, Silicon Valley Code Camp and Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group talks and then seriously myself looking at business opportunities. Hi-fiving me is not the plans at the mo ... I live in the suburbs. I have some private thoughts about living in the city centre or any city centre in any megacity on the planet. It is expensive and there will be, unless you are royalty, The Queen, not going to be green spaces. Although London has a great number of parks, those properties that surround them, are sought after. I used to commute into the City of London, probably will do again. It's really funning I just read an Evening Standard article a week ago, about a couple who spend £20000 doing this four days a week from the East Midland lines across 6 counties. It is madness, and we are, most of us, IT developers, designers and architect with great access and know-how about telecommunication technologies. Why we need to commute into an office 5 days a week is stupid in the 21st century? Ok I accept we need to do daily sit-downs (Sorry Barry H etc it is the way Agile is currently done in London / Financial banking most of time) with the team. I digress let me answer your question, try to decide North, East, South, or West in London where you want to have mid-term flat). What do you like to do in the evening? Pub, Football, Rugby, TV, extrovert and introvert whatever. Decide on price? Go for that? Can you commute easily from there to the office? What is your commute time tolerance? What do you like do? Bike or Moped or Walk -Bus-Train-Bus-Wak? Decide on the people? Hooray Henries or working class or chav class and look at the prices and the shops people can afford? Best advice visit the area first for flat, get a feel of shops, people, pubs whatever, it cost you nothing but 5 / 6 day travelcard and an early Saturday morning start and a walkabout prospective areas. etc Final advice lodge with a mate, or colleague for a couple of months, and word of mouth helps.
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