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Worried about sky-high rents? Learn to love a bedsit

27 July 2019

9:00 AM

27 July 2019

9:00 AM

‘I’m not going to your place, it looks like a crack den.’ It’s not exactly a vote of confidence when your mother describes your home that way. Admittedly, the bedsit I have lived in for ten years is tiny. There is no central heating. The white blinds have faded to yellow.

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