Yes, I had similarly naive thoughts about that too. They want ludicrous sums for the deposit in my case, and also I haven't worked at my company for more than a

Yes, I had similarly naive thoughts about that too. They want ludicrous sums for the deposit in my case, and also I haven't worked at my company for more than a year at the moment so I failed that too. At this rate, I'm considering moving out of London to somewhere else (perhaps with fibre internet), renting be damned. As an aside: how strange that we have a number of mutual professional connections (couldn't help but check out your GitHub).