{"id":407351,"date":"2025-09-08T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407351\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:24:10","slug":"this-is-what-i-learned-about-renting-in-london-after-living-in-a-van-for-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407351\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what I learned about renting in London after living in a van for two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Camaraderie was not something we expected. In fact, the comment we heard the most before leaving was, \u201cyou\u2019ll kill each other, surely?\u201d Before the van, our idea of teamwork had been limited to shared custody of house plants. Now, it felt like we\u2019d been shipwrecked together. You learn what support and teamwork really mean after a day that involves your period arriving\u2014like the stomping of a hundred steel toe cap boots on your back\u2014a leak springing from the roof, and the door alarm breaking. While you\u2019re trying to stealth camp. In December. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Camaraderie was not something we expected. In fact, the comment we heard the most before leaving was, \u201cyou\u2019ll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[23787,748,393,66829,4884,1429,257,16,15,2977],"class_list":{"0":"post-407351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-adventure","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-flat","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-life","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-van"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115167721131541512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}