London, Accomodation, Artists.

Dear all,

If you are thinking to stay permanently in London beware of poor accommodation.A lot of houses, flats in London have been taken over by moth and rodents. Moth will eat you clothes and rodents your food and furniture. Some days you will also find them having wild parties in your private space at the expense of your pockets and your sanity.

On top of this you can have windows that don't shut, no blinds or really poor quality blinds that you will never find any where else in Europe. So if you are someone who needs shutters like I do, I suggest you to go and stay permanently in Spain, France or Italy because every time you will move house or flat or room in London you will have same problem: no shutters!

+ Don't get me started on how agencies, landlords etc charge huge amounts of money for really crap accommodation. If you are on a budget it's something to ponder on because you will find that you have to stay far out of London ( and pay loads more for terribly clean transport) or to live in London will be sharing with loads of people in a small space and still pay loads of money for crap aaccommodation.London it's a great place to visit or if you have loads and loads of money that you can spend on fantastic nightclubs and entertainment.

There are so many places that I really cool to visit and let's not talk about shopping.

If you are a young artist like I am I suggest you to go and live some where else than London as you will find studio spaces less expensive outside of London and yes they don't have any heating in the winter so you will be covered in jumpers to survive the day in your cold highly expensive studio drinking hot cups of coffees, teas.to make it through the day....which is maybe fine if you are a hardy Brit but not if you are coming from a warm sunny country. Not for long periods of times at least. Soon the grey weather will hit you in the head and you will have strange thoughts of doom and gloom that you will not normally have if you where living in Italy for example. So my advice to you my fellow young artist if you can get a job in a warm sunny country go there and stay there and only go to London to visit. London it's a place for hard patient people. I will tell you more about why one needs to be patient in London in my next chapter. Got to go now.

And remember time doesn't wait for anybody so if you have to do something do it now!! Apply to that gallery today.