£1800 per month to rent a 2 bed flat????

You must really HAVE to live in London to pay those prices. I've just bought a house but till last month was renting a 3 bed detached house by a lake , surrounded by farmland and a half hour's country drive to the nearest city where I work. Rent...£500 per month.

IMHO London is congested,dirty, impersonal, chillingly expensive (travel costs, food, drink, accommodation) to folks on "regular" incomes;I can't understand why people keep going to live there -and thus perpetuate matters.