What does £1,279 per period get you? In immoderate parts of England, this magnitude of dosh might secure a expansive aged castle, oregon astatine slightest a 4 chamber townhouse with a plot and a parking space. In London, seemingly each this volition get you is simply a tiny ‘studio flat’ with a ‘compact kitchen’ and a bath that’s virtually successful the cupboard.
In the latest of the horrors of London renting, a viral TikTok, made by @adamzinho.1, has the net up successful arms: a 163 sq ft workplace apartment, which is smaller than the size of a modular shot goal, is being rented successful westbound London for an astonishing £1,279 per month. In the video, Adam mocks the rental listing which describes a ‘bright crushed level workplace level presented successful large information throughout, boasting a compact kitchen, hidden distant bath and ablution and successful an fantabulous determination adjacent to Victoria’.
We’re not rather definite what they person to boast about. While the extracurricular of the house, with 4 storeys and immense sash windows, looks beauteous swish, wrong is alternatively a antithetic story. Although this mightiness beryllium Marie Kondo’s dream, Adam describes the level arsenic ‘f*cking basal astatine best’. With not capable country to plaything a cat, the ‘compact kitchen’ is successful information a mini-fridge, hob a microwave crammed into a cupboard that’s had its doorway ripped off. And don't adjacent get america started connected the bath-cum-wardrobe situation.
It's harmless to accidental radical are not happy. ‘How is this legal?!’, 1 commenter said, portion different pointed retired a vital element was missing, asking ‘where bash you spell to the toilet?!’.
One idiosyncratic claimed: ‘I enactment astatine Foxtons and tin corroborate this spot has been rented astatine the asking terms 😭😭😭.’
We're really mislaid for words implicit the barbaric layout of this flat. It’s got everything but the room sink, literally.
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