Graduate moving to London - Help please

Can the remaining 142 that seem to live below me please hurry up and join them please? Or at least find something more inspiring to blast at 100db on a Saturday night than whatever tragedy has come about after clicking 'Create Genius playlist' on track 4 of Destiny's Child Greatest Hits?

I'm 43 and engaged in an ongoing negotiation with my wife to limit the radio 4 output to a bearable level.

I accept:
The Archers
Front Row
Today Programme (one hour max)

That's it.

Outside that, Freddie Hubbard all the way.

What about From our Own Corespondents and all of the comedy?

I genuinely think From our Own Corespondents is an amazing thing and that this country would be a better place if more people listened to it.

Sorry for the derail - to move back on topic, don't listen to those folk South of the river. You need to decide early which side you live and it sounds like you've already made the correct choice.

I've lived in haggerston, bow And now Leytonstone which is a well worn migration pattern for someone arriving in London in their early 20s . There are few places I wouldn't live in East London, some are better than others , but most are perfectly safe and pleasant places to live, assuming you employ a bit of common sense.

Visit an area at all times of the day and night if possible though. Haggerston was great and very central but lots of drug dealer activity and antisocial behaviour in specific pockets which ideally should be avoided if possible and with due diligence.

To continue the derail, Peter Day's In Business was so so good, and I'm really not your average 'business' listener (The Bottom Line makes me seethe on the other hand)... his last installment went out recently, and I'm really sad. An admirable broadcaster. The last one about 3d/additive manufacture was excellent.

And no, south London is not 'incorrect'. It's fucking great, the only place I've ever properly known loads of my neighbours in London.

I'd be impressed if you could critique yesterdays Any Questions.

A bunch of uninteresting, uninspiring halfwits.

That's not very nice, mdcc_tester is generally extremely helpful.

Usually a pile of shit. Get a room in a flat built as a flat. Or a house. Conversion is a byword for badly repurposed dwellings IMO.

He was probably just playing Hipster Bingo there.

Does anybody have experience of living in big artist warehouse spaces, like this:

I'm prepared for cold as I've never lived anywhere with double glazing or central heating

I've done a fair few of those in all shapes and sizes. If you don't mind the cold, want to engage with some very interesting people, get into shit for being involved with said people, try new shit, wake up in a daze, and generally suffer a bit for the life of it. You'll enjoy it.
Mind you, it's become really popular, so prices are up, and it doesn't attract as mad a clientele as it used to.
One of last place I stayed in, a single dad moved in with his kid, which we all found puzzling and later on lead to some heated arguments.
One the other hand, I once lived in a disused college in marylebone, had a swing in the patio and projected movies almost every evening. Summer was good that year.
If you can now afford it, hell yeah go for it.

I once lived in a disused college in marylebone

Squat?