Room available in Bethnal Green 🩷

Hello! After a rent increase, our lovely housemate is moving out at the end of July, so we have a great room up for grabs in the wonderful Bethnal Green. We're looking for someone who can renew our contract with us starting on the 1st of August.

We’re a home not a house, so please share a bit about yourself in your message as we’re looking for someone who’d be a friend to live with :)

About the area:
- 10 min walk from Central Line tube station 🚇
- 5 min walk from Cambridge Heath overground station 🚊
- Many bus lines available within a few minutes walk 🚌
- 10 min walk to Broadway Market 🌯 and Columbia Flower Market 🌷 !
- 20 min walk to Lidl (Well Street)
- 5 min walk to Tesco Express and corner shops
- 10 min walk to bigger Tesco
- Lots of nice restaurants, cafés, pubs, etc. nearby

About the flat:
- Furnished
- Ground floor
- Outdoor terrace
- 1 toilet and 1 bathroom (these are separate)
- Living room with TV, dining table and sofa bed
- Washing machine
- Responsive landlord who is pretty happy and flexible in terms of decorating
- All bills add up to around 110 pcm:
• Council tax - £46
• Wifi - £13
• Water - £18
• Gas/electric ~ £35

About your room:
- £720 pcm - yep!!
- Comes with a wardrobe, dresser, bed side table and enough space to fit a desk if desired

About you:
✅️ Single occupant
✅ Left-leaning
🏳️‍🌈 Queer and POC friendly 💕
❌ No students, sorry!

We do like to have nights out every now and then (generally techno/house events), but the flat is much more for pres than for afters/parties (although we do have these once in a blue moon).

We do both smoke every now and then, but always outside the flat on the terrace, never inside.

A bit about ourselves 👯‍♀️

Sarah:

Hi, I’m Sarah, 25, half-Dutch half-British, and this’ll be me and Tyra’s 3rd year living together in this flat! I work in the charity sector, in health policy, and I work hybrid, usually cycling to the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I love cooking/creating things, listening to music (hip hop/rap, jazz, alternative, experimental, indie, soul, r&b, (detroit) techno, jungle, acid house, ghetto tech), going to music events, going to the movies, going to any arts/culture events, photography, long walks, cycling, fashion and just overall having fun in life with friends!

Being aware of social justice matters/issues is really important to me, so I’m personally quite keen on someone who’s educated/aware of these sorts of things. Not that that’s something you have to prove haha.

Tyra:

Hi everyone 💕🌞🥰

I'm Tyra and I'll be turning 27 in September! I'm queer and have ADHD, which means that I am a serial hobbyist who drops any interest (be that crochet, taekwondo, or rollerskating) as soon as I have invested more than £50 into it.

While this leaves my room cluttered with the ghosts of hobbies past, in general I love gaming, anything artsy or nerdy, dancing, crisps, and every now and then getting into fitness girl mode and going to the gym. I also like a night out and being very silly 💖

I enjoy living in a chilled environment and that can mean a lot of things from occasionally sharing meals together, playing on one of the consoles (currently we have a ps2, wii, and switch) or just settling in to watch whatever trash has my attention at present (at the moment this is love island 😈🌞 🏝).

Me and Sarah both have our own groups of friends but we hang out together regularly and have festivals planned later in the summer 🧚🏾‍♀️👯🏽‍♀️

I work as a software engineer for a company that is fully remote so I usually head into the office once or twice a week when the weather is good. I have a good setup in my room so I don't take up loads of space in the flat during the day. Really looking forwards to meeting you! :-)