The 14 Pros vs. Cons of Living in a London Warehouse District

The 14 Pros vs Cons of Living in a London Warehouse

So you’ve moved to London Mr. Hotshot uni grad, but where the hell do you live? A flat in Putney? A house share in Brixton? Or do you look to London’s warehouse districts……….

1) Your space

Pro: You can decorate your room HOWEVER you want

Con: Carpet is a luxury. Floor is cold.

2) The Kitchen

Pro: Open plan, social space. The spice cornucopia……………

Con: There is a pool on the floor. Is that the fridge leaking? What is washing up?

3) Your housemates

Pro: There are always people about to chat, chill and hang out with. Plus you often come in to a ‘stretching sesh’.

Con: There are like 20 other people, chances are you hate one and you fancy one and both could end messily…..

4) Your Housemates Take 2

Pro: Everybody is outgoing, opinionated and a little bit cray cray.

Con: Don’t get into an argument if you can’t hold your own. YOU WILL LOOSE!

5) Food

Pro: There are often people around to cook with, which means your meals can be awesome! BBQs are rife and you never run out of milk for tea. Plus the fridge generally looks like this……

Con: You know that red bull you were saving? Yea that’s gone. There is always washing up armageddon, and who knew there was such a thing as ‘communal cheese’…….

6) Bathroom

Pro: Hmmm verdicts out on this one…

Con: 50% of your housemates are girls, this means hair EVERWHERE.
Warehouse + toilet = non existent loo roll.

Toilets are used for throwing up. Toilets seats are flimsy. Ummm is at sick or chilli con carne?……

7) Social

Pro: Parties!

Con: Parties! (When you work weekends)

8) The House

Pros: There are handy things like this bad boy lying around for all your goods transportation needs….

Cons: Everything’s a little bit broken

9) Rubbish

Pro: With like a gazillion of you, you hardly ever have to take the bins out.

Con: The bin is always full and overflowing. You will play bin chicken.

10) TV

Pro: You can all snuggle, watch shit films and drink beer on an evening. Who needs to go out?

Cons: Make sure you like trashy TV and are open to….interesting films. Be prepared for Wednesday to become ‘The Great British Bake Off Day’ for that housemate who’s goes into the ‘Mary Berry’ zone.

11) Music

Pro: You can play your music as loud as you want!

Con: Everyone can play their music as loud as they want! (Which actually isn’t bad for ‘open mindedness’, however bad day at work + screamo = tantrums)

12) The Area

Pro: Friendly warehousey area with parties, jolly people and a cracking local cafe down the road.

Con: There is rubbish next door that the bin men refuse to remove. It smells like a mix of dead badger and your great aunts armpit

13) The Area

Pro: Parking in London!?

Con: Digger slalom.

14) CONCLUSION!?

Pros WWWAAAAYYYYY outweigh the cons.

Overall? Living in a warehouse isn’t for everyone. However for me, I’ve discovered the most weird, wonderful, eclectic people. I really feel like I belong here, and it has become my home from home 🙂

BUT the council are deciding to be laaammmmeeee and gentrify all the warehouse districts! So they are all being closed down, and the creative brilliant people chucked out which super duper sucks.

#Savethewarehouses

Aspen Glencross @GollumCrackCorn
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