After months of searching through Gumtree et al to find somewhere to live in Cambridge, I am going tonight to look at a double room in a shared house in the wastelands between Mill Road and Cherry Hinton Road, somewhere behind Cambridge Leisure.
It’s not a student house, it’s not a bedsit, it’s ten minutes from uni and it’s CHEAP – £90pw all in. Which is GOOD.
But I am having doubts now. As much as I hate getting the X5 every day (although if you have to get a bus every day, the mightiness of the X5 means it isn’t quite so arduous), and want to be closer to uni, able to get a job in Cambridge without being constrained by buses etc., I wonder whether I would miss the security of “my flat”, and whether I am ready to leave St Neots for a third time.
St Neots is great; most of my friends are there, little brother is there, it’s handy for getting into not just Cambridge but also Peterborough, Bedford, London etc.
More than anything though, despite the fact I share a flat, it’s very much “my” place. I can do what I want when I want. I have all my crap spread all over the place, I can have who I want round when I want – I don’t have to live by someone else’s rules. It’s a selfish thing basically. Could I live by someone else’s rules?
So I am going to look at this room in CB1 today, and will keep the following in my mind. If it’s truly an amazing place, I’ll seriously think about moving. But anything less, I’m going to stay where I am, at least for the time being.
There’ll be other places. And £90pw does seem a little TOO good to be true…
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