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Artist evicted by London landlord cuts rent by commuting from Argentina
- pavel_lishin 3y ago> Andy Leek, 38... has moved to Buenos Aires where the rents are several times cheaper and he travels back to the UK roughly every two months for work. That's not exactly "commuting", is it.
- DistractionRect 3y agoYeah, the title really misrepresents the situation. This is someone who doesn't need to live in London, and visits a London few times a year.
- Waterluvian 3y agoMy 10 hour commute is ridiculous. I live in rural Canada where it’s cheap and visit the Boston HQ every few years…
- coldtea 3y agoSounds like commuting to me: he has work to do in London, and he could have stayed and done it there, but he was forced by rising rents to live elsewhere and come back 5-6 times a year to do it. It's just not a daily commute.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoI used to work for a company headquartered in Austin, TX. About once a year, we would have a company all-hands, and I would fly in. I would not consider that "commuting"? Furthermore, Mr. Leek has a job in Buenos Aires - he's making a documentary. I'm not saying there isn't a problem here. I'm just saying that he's not commuting to work if he's traveling once every two months.
- lesuorac 3y agoCommuting is just about traveling to work. If you travel a long distance they call you a super commuter [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_commuter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_commuter
- mc32 3y agoI cannot feel sorry for someone who can afford commuting across a vast ocean. Now, sure rents are way to expensive for the working poor, but this guy isn't one of them. He could easily live in the Hebrides and live on the cheap. The UK, and England especially, is dense, but they still have lots of immigration from Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, etc., that put pressures on the housing stock for native population. They need to tackle that.
- jncfhnb 3y agoWhat does the graph showing the “share of london renters leaving the city when moving home” possibly indicate? Given you are a renter that is moving to your old home, what is the probability that it is not in London?
- orf 3y agoMoving home as in moving home, not moving back home
- jncfhnb 3y agoIs that a British thing? Americans would just say “moving”. Moving home sounds odd.
- orf 3y agoI guess? Is your question “do different countries have different ways of speaking?” The UK uses both, this one is more explicit/formal, although it does seem a bit redundant.
- jncfhnb 3y agoNo I actually understand the concept that other countries have different ways of speaking and am instead asking if this is a specific instance of such a difference.
- julesallen 3y agoIt is, yes. You're moving (your) home, it's just what everybody says. Just as dropping 'on' from "let's meet Monday" equally baffles Brits.
- beardyw 3y agoThere are huge swathes of the UK which are much cheaper to live in than a London. And he could commute to London on a bus. This is just self aggrandisement.
- prmph 3y agoBut those areas probably don't have the energy of a large metropolis, do they? Sounds like the artist wanted an affordable place to live that _also_ has the feel of a large city. For creative work, that could be important.
- keiferski 3y agoThere are also dozens of cities in Europe connected to London via Ryanair / WizzAir that are cheaper and closer than BsAs.
- pydry 3y agoI don't think he denied that.
- Nextgrid 3y agoIf post-pandemic London wasn't depressing enough already, sure.
- KennyBlanken 3y ago...and massively increases his carbon footprint