From sweaty morning tubes to extortionately priced flats, you’ll know the pain of every one of these…
By Saffron Shergill from StudentJob.co.uk
When you imagine yourself living in London you see Big Ben, The London Eye and afternoon tea. What you don’t picture is paying £4 for a pint, living in your dingy accommodation in greater London, and being so far in debt you’re on first name terms with your bank manager. So, read on because StudentJob has got you covered with the 17 struggles you face as a student in London…
#1 | When you wear a coat on the 9AM tube
#2 | How people on the tube have no sense of personal space…
#3 | Dodging tourists to get to uni on time
#4 | Trying not to breathe in the polluted air when you walk for risk of catching all sorts of illnesses
#5 | Going to get the tube and finding out it’s cancelled…again
#8 | … which means you spend hours getting home on the bus
#9 | The fact that you can’t even drink on the tube anymore
#10 | … and since London is so expensive, you can’t buy drinks in the club either
#11 | So you have to get inventive with smuggling wine in…or drink it fast outside your favourite bar
#12 | When you have to get a student job because London is so expensive
#13 | All your wages go on rent because it costs an arm and a leg
#14 | You dreamt of living in a studio in central London but that is far from the truth
#15 | You can’t find the energy to meet any friends who don’t live in your zone
#16 | And all your friends and family who visit your house think it’s a dive
#17 | But you wouldn’t change anything about because there is no greater city in the world…
Written by Saffron Shergill at StudentJob.co.uk.
