amazing magic

Chapter 108 107. Considerations for renting a house
The house-hunting process was not smooth.

Because Lin An's estimate was wrong——

Rents in London are very expensive.

Even for an ordinary apartment some distance from the central city, with a large number of people who are worried about law and order, the monthly rent is close to 300 pounds.

How much is 300 pounds?

Let's put it this way, one pound can buy about 60 catties of potatoes, or 30 catties of flour.

It is precisely because of this terrifying purchasing power that Lin An feels that writing for magazines and tabloids is really a high salary!
Visible, knowledge is money!
It can also be seen that no matter what age, country, or time and space... the city's CBD is expensive.

Not to mention Westminster, where the law and order is relatively better, and one bedroom and one living room cost 1000 pounds, which broke Lin An's heart.

Naturally, she can afford the money—after all, there are still six or seven months before the summer vacation, so she should be able to earn it.

But, after living in Slytherin's dormitory, it's really hard to go from luxury to frugality——

She's looking down on a £300 London flat.

Old and dirty walls, rusted and yellowed faucets, colorful splashes of paint in the room... and all kinds of weird stains.

In order to save money and stay in this hotel for Christmas, she has realized that her magic power is not enough to comfortably support changing the room into a comfortable and comfortable look every day.

Including sound insulation cleaning and air conditioning heating etc.

That kind of corridor, with [-] to [-] rooms on both sides, drug addicts on the left, late-night rockers on the right... are all commonplace.

Her vicissitudes of life in middle-aged and elderly people can't stand it!
And Westminster, which has high-quality single apartments with a rent of 1000 pounds, most of them are single apartments with better privacy and safety—but, Lin An can't guarantee that there will be no big disturbances when he practices magic. .

Therefore, I prefer to live in a detached house - at least I don't have to worry about affecting other people.

After a day's delay, she called in foreign aid Hank.

Lin An sighed, and had to set his sights on places like Hanke's suburban houses.

But Hanke has a different opinion: "If you can earn more royalties, I mean, if. Try not to live in the country-you know, Lin an, although you are not qualified to be a superstar now , but it’s good enough.”

A single, young, pretty--even a girl with an innocuous oriental quality--is not very safe living in the middle of nowhere.

"In addition, the delivery time here is 2-3 days slower than in urban areas, and there is no pizza and burger that can be delivered at any time with a phone call."

"Finally, since you are only renting for short-term summer vacation, I guess this kind of whole building will not be rented for such a short period of time."

Compared with Lin An, Hank is a down-to-earth local investigator.

Ok.

The last reason convinced Lin An.

She sighed wistfully.

But Hank couldn't help but suggested: "Are you really not considering living in my house? I can give you a room for only 100 pounds. And I will persuade my mother to prepare three meals for you!"

If Lin An was an ordinary girl, she would be tempted by this proposal.

But... for the same reason, who knows what kind of magical movements she will make?

So I can only reluctantly decline.

But there is really nothing more cost-effective.

Hanke couldn't figure out why she had to be a detached house, so he had to rack his brains: "If you don't mind the external environment and don't want to compromise the house type, there are some places in the inferior area...it's not impossible to consider."

The distribution of dwellings in England today is interesting.

There are some medium-sized residential communities with obviously good law and order and well-maintained environment, such as the Little Whinging District where Harry lives.

There are also low-level areas surrounded by smelly ditches, rotten garbage, and industrial pollution.

The houses in the inferior area are not necessarily worse, but the law and order and the external environment...

I really can't bear to look directly at it.

law and order...

For Lin An, it was necessary to consider, but it was not the first consideration.

She thought for a while: "If I want to live in this medium-sized community, how much will the rent be?"

It was not within the scope of Hank’s delivery, so he called a friend to find out: “Because it’s only an hour’s drive from downtown London, plus the area is larger, the smallest single-family house costs 800 pounds a month, but the shortest It takes three months to rent."

Lin An couldn't afford the money.

She believed that she would be able to save such a sum of money during the summer vacation, but accommodation is one aspect, so you can't spend all your budget on it, right?
After thinking about it, she reluctantly asked, "Where is the inferior area?"

"Inferior area..." Hank looked up the map in a hurry: "There are many choices, but the one that is closest to the record store you mentioned (in fact, Lin An was talking about the Leaky Cauldron Bar next to it)... that is next to There's another town in Little Whinging called Cokeworth."

"The rent here is very cheap, as low as 15 pounds, but I don't recommend-"

He rummaged through the notes he had collected in advance, and now he accurately drew a circle on the map:
"Why don't you go and have a look here? It's in the middle of Little Whinging and Cokeworth. There are a lot of short-term rentals because of the high turnover of people. The security is not bad. A single house only costs about 300 pounds."

The only fly in the ointment is that there is a big chimney and a stinky ditch.

Lin An breathed a sigh of relief.

how to say?The whole of London is not much better!The sky is groggy all day long, seeing the sun is like seeing your own mother.

What's more, now is a good time, if you want to take a walk, you must go to the magic world!

She breathed a sigh of relief, and flicked the map again, looking at the places Hank circled——

"It's better to be closer to Little Whinging, I have a friend who lives there."

Because of the "magic of love", Harry couldn't leave his aunt's house for a long time, but...it should be no problem to come and play all day during the day.

not to mention……

It is closer to a medium-sized community like Xiaohuijin District, if... Lin An said that if Draco is willing to come, maybe he won't worry too much about her situation?

Hank nodded, and started lying on the map again——

"If you're closer to Little Whinging... here! Spider Lane in Cokeworth, sorry I haven't been, but I asked - the end of the lane connects to Little Whinging - ah, I remembered! I conveyed Their complaint letter! It is said that it is connected with the inferior district, and everyone is very reluctant."

Lin An also breathed a sigh of relief: "Let's decide here tentatively! Do you have time? Go and see now?"

It's still the Christmas holiday, and the single dog Hank is naturally duty-bound for a trustworthy and touching pound (crossed out)-friendship.

only……

Lin An thought for a while in bewilderment—Spider Lane... sounds familiar!
　Cokeworth, a fictional industrial center in Dickens's novel "Hard Times", Rowling followed his name and setting, and set up Spider's End Lane here, where Snape often traveled through here to talk to Harry Mom meets (from Zhihu)
　　Spider's End: Professor Snape's residence

　　
　
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