Gonna shift house = stress stress stress............

Finding an "home" in LONDON which is

1. safe
2. decent- ie no falling roof, or disintegrating floor boards
3. affordable-ie less than £140/week
4. have decent housemates/landlords
5. convenient

is like trying to find a mango among a pile of durians.

Ops... what nonsense am I saying? Anyway, it just means that it is almost impossible!!! If when you think you found the mango, it will probably be all quashed up anyway. Ie, if the advert look good, the place is often crap when you get there.

We got enough interesting stories with my Romanian housemates that we could probably start a blog called "MY stupid Romanian housemates", and it would probably turn out to be a big hit. Anyway, enough is enough. No more sharing with Eastern Europeans who just "came out".

Years of living behind an iron curtain makes them narrow minded? Yaars of dealing with the chaos after the fall of iroon curtain makes them street smart, but distrusting and dishonest. They will do ANYTHING(just use your imagination. I am lucky in my case, prostitution was not included in my housemate's list) to stay in London.

It is ok if they are educated, have been in London for a while, and hold a decent job. But how can you be sure they are educated, have been in London for a while , and hold a decent job? My hubby had that impression of them.

Turn out? She is not qualified to practise here, and he, the "painter", was a bus-driver at home, and just started in the construction industry..Hahaha..

I don't judge people by their education and profession, but sometimes you know... only certain people could do projectile spits from the balcony with such style. And he could beat any "Chinaman" to it. When he "prepare" his spit, it was always loud enough to wake me up from my afternoon nap!!! [And I am such a pig!!!]

"kroak kroak kroak [gathering strength, and forming proper bullet] puhhhhhh [pull trigger].... piak[hit target]".... Ok, the "piak" is my imagination. Cos the balcony opens to a field. I was just worried for some kids playing there..... Eww......eww...... I apologise for your loss of apetite.

Sigh.......Welll...there is no way you could tell. They look so handsome and pretty, friendly (if they want to), and well mannered. But wait till you know them really well.... and then you know. They operate with different modes, can "press button", and then change "colour".

Now it is back to browsing the www.gumtree.com.

Scanning for flats to let again. Rental agents in London are hopeless. They make you pay money to see flats, and then will tell you the flats are not available anymore, or there is a long list of interested tenants. So, we got to do everything on our own.

This time, lets hope we get a good one. Renting in London is no easy job, unless you have a LARGE budget.