Accomodation in KL - Eastfields close - Mrs Tann

[Abbsie]

Just so you know... I am currently living at Mrs Tann's place at 18 Eastfields Close; and if you get the choice to live there, you might want to know the following:

I'm pleased I chose this place. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Here's a frank description of it, plus pros and cons:

It's a bungalow in someone's back garden. 15 minutes' walk from college, 5 minutes walk from Tesco's, the doctors and the public library (you can't get hotmail at college, so public library is useful).

Pros:
Close to things
Cleaner comes in once a week
Bed covers and towels provided and cleaned
Landlady brings in food - doughnuts, sunday roast, cakes (and this week: carrots, eggs and rabbit!!!)
Very quiet
Heating is always on
10% discount if you pay up front for the term

Cons:
No privacy - landlady walks in through front door whenever she fancies and she spring cleans the flat every term (= moves all your stuff around)
Can't have parties
No one else lives nearby
It's half an hour walk from town
Biggest bedroom looks onto landlady's bedroom
It's VERY small

The landlord and lady are very nice people; but you have to keep the landlady sweet (by not making too much noise, and being fairly clean). My 2 original flatmates didn't like her, and she didn't like (one of) them, so they moved out. They were both girls and I know live with 2 other blokes, and all is fine. How many treats you get rises in direct correlation with how much she likes you.

Landlady owns a healthclub so you get free membership to that, and her daughter is a hairdresser who'll do your hair for a fiver.


Hope that helps!

Adam

[Dimples]

A match made in heaven for you then ........................

[Tangliss]

Sounds good!

[DH2005]

Sounds like quite a cosy arragement... though an absence of privacy wouldn't sit too well with me - I get in a temper if I can't be on my own at certain times.

[Dimples]

Lol - that doe snot surprise me - "personal space" is very important!

[DH2005]

What are you suggesting, Miss Dimples? That I am prone to tantrums?

[Abbsie]

The trick is to lock the door... she doesn't hang around if you've done that. Either because she's in a strop, or she knows you don't want to be disturbed.

There are net curtains as well... so it's not too bad.

The "Garden Cottage" on Loke road is pretty nice too - close to everything.

[arkhooker]

Hi

I just wanted to say The Garden Cottage on Loke Road is where I lived last year. It is a very nice place. The landlord works at the college part time so will certainly not mess you around. There are three bed rooms, two are huge and I mean huge. And the third is tiny and I mean tiny!

The communal areas are wood floored with a through lounge. Only one drawback the bathroom is down stairs. There is a good sized CostCutter with cash point (cost £1.50), Post Office and video rental. There is also a butchers, a bakery (sells great bacon sandwichs), chip shop, pizza/kebab shop, newsagent and chinese takeaway right accross the road. All this on twelve steps from your front door - I counted when I was very bored one Tuesday morning. With all those distractions I have no idea how I made it to medical school.

The house is five minutes from Town and college. Ten mins from Tesco.

Hope this helps!

Also if you get a chance try and find the Green Quay on the river in the old part of town (its at the back of the court house) it is in my opinion the greatest study venue. Oh and nice place to take family on visits.

Noah

[Marky Mark]

Howdy,

I live with Abbsie here in good ol'Kings lynn. i can verify what he said, it is a nice place to live if a little cramped (especially with abbsie's beach muscle). the landlady is fine, i love the wee treats she leaves (this week we got farm eggs and carrot cake). she is very good when things go wrong, e.g. our shower was rubbish and so within a few days a new one was installed.

up until january I to lived in 58, fenland road on the refley estate and my god was that place a dump! it was bloody miles out of college, it takes ages to drive in as the traffic in kl is terribly (it's been named the world's largest carpark), there is no central heating just awful storage heaters, the landlord is non-existent, when asked to do something he takes months and months and then only does a half-job!

the house itself was decrepid, looks as if it has not been renovated since it was built. there is one bathroom and 4 bedrooms, the 3rd bedroom is downstairs at the back of the lounge, my heart goes out to whoever lived in it (when i was there no one did, we tried to use it as study but it's too cold to sit in there). the walls are paper thin, the windows are supposedly double glazed but let in so much cold air.

my flatmate had the room next to the bathroom which was absolutely freezing and became damp and musty when anyone showered.

we both moved out in january and not a moment too soon!

so, in sum, if you value your health and sanity, do not live there. i would, however, recommend where i am now, the garden flat, 18, eastfields close.

marc.

[Abbsie]

But Marc is a tool, so take his advice with a huge pinch of salt