- Hey, guys, so I'm finally getting around
to filming this video that I have been
promising and teasing for ages,
and it's going to be a warehouse tour
but also a bit about what it's like
to live in a converted warehouse in London.
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Can you hear that crazy noise?
This is what it's like.
It is 11:30 AM on a Wednesday.
Alright, so I've given you a great first impression
of what it is like to live in a warehouse.
Totally would recommend, guys.
But in all seriousness, it is great living here.
So basically the general setup of the warehouse
that I live in is that we're all on the ground floor
and there is big open plan communal area
that is like the living room and the kitchen,
and then there's a separate space that is
like the studio area, and then along the back
is the corridor and all of the bedrooms
that people sleep in.
So I've lived here for a year and seven months.
It is the longest I've ever stayed in one place
other than my parents' home.
Cause at university, we would change every year.
So being somewhere that's like my own for over a year
is really strange and like a new experience,
like I own furniture now.
I also have some news, but you're gonna have to wait
until the end of the video to find out about that.
So I went on my Twitter and I asked you guys
if you had any questions about what it is like
to live in a warehouse and my experience,
and so, I am gonna answer them now.
Michael Voiers asks, "Are you living there to save money
"or are you preparing for the apocalypse?"
Great question, Michael.
Well, I think that everyone should always
be preparing for the apocalypse,
so that goes without saying, but yes,
definitely living here to save money.
This was the first place I that moved into
when I moved to London
and I didn't really have that much money,
so this was a great option for me.
Granted, it's still in London, so it still is expensive,
but in terms of the amount of space that you get,
like, cost per square meter, it's really cheap.
Emma Simpson asks, "Why live where you live?
"What do you like about the place that you live in?"
So like I said, money was a definite factor in it,
but also, all of the people that I knew in London
were YouTubers and I knew that I didn't want
to live with YouTubers, I wanted to kind of expand
my social circles in London,
and so moving in with a group of people
who I had never met before and all did
completely different things, but were kind of
still doing stuff in the creative industries,
that was really appealing to me.
Eri says, "How did you find the warehouse?
"Who helped you in finding it?"
So for me personally, a friend of mine from Manchester
lives in a warehouse down the road
and there's this communal Facebook group
for the collection of warehouses in this area,
and so he added me to the group because it's a private group
and I just posted in there saying,
"Help me, I'm looking for a place to live,"
and someone replied, and I went
and looked around the warehouse and I liked it,
and then I got it.
And I realize that's quite a unique way of doing it,
but rooms and warehouses are always being advertised
on SpareRoom and Gumtree, so if you are looking
to live in a place like this, I would check out those sites.
Michelle Carter says, "What's it like to share
"the public space while trying to respect
"each other's privacy?"
It's actually really simple.
The communal area is communal and your bedroom is private,
and everyone definitely respects each other's space.
There's no problem if you just need to be on your own
and you just want to go to your room and not speak to anyone
but if you want to, there's always gonna be people around
and you can chat and hang out.
Aislin asks, "How many people do you share with?"
Obviously, every warehouse is different.
In the warehouse that I live in,
there are 11 bedrooms, but there are 12 of us,
because one bedroom is occupied by a couple.
I realize that sounds like so many people,
but in reality, everyone is
on different schedules and doing different things,
there is never all 12 of us home at once.
I don't think that has ever happened
except maybe when we do Christmas dinner.
Crazer Frostdragon asks,
"Is living in a warehouse difficult?"
I would say you definitely have
to be a certain type of person to be able
to live in a warehouse.
You have to be very relaxed, pretty chilled out person.
Obviously, there are loads of cool things and benefits
to living in a warehouse, but right now,
I'm just going to list all of the difficulties
that I've found over the last year and seven months.
First of all, as you can tell, noise.
Like, right now, there is music coming
from the warehouse next door
and also I can hear the washing machine.
The walls in this place are so thin,
because they're not real walls.
They've just been like put up.
You can hear people having conversations
in the bedrooms next door to you.
You can hear people having sex.
I can hear people walking.
The other thing is there are no windows in the bedroom.
This is just the reality of the situation.
All of our rooms are surrounded by all angles,
and so there is no natural light coming into my bedroom.
How do I feel about that?
The weird thing about that is that if the lights are off,
it is pitch black in my room, no matter what time of day.
So getting used to like waking up in darkness was weird,
but I'm very used to it now
and I can easily wake up at 7:30 in the morning,
so that's good.
The other thing is, you know how I get ill, all of the time?
I genuinely think that is down to having no windows.
Like, not being able to properly let air into this room
or like see the sun.
It gets messy, it gets dirty,
but we're not afraid of calling each other
if we haven't done our dishes.
It's kind of like a free for all and every man for himself
when it comes to cooking and washing up.
I feel really bad now because I've listed
all of the annoying things about living here,
but I feel like if you are considering living in a warehouse
you need to know it all.
Rosie asks, "Is it cool?"
Hell, yes, it is cool.
I feel so lucky to be living here,
and the people are great.
Every evening, there's just people in,
and we can watch TV together, watch films together,
have some drinks together.
Girlthings asks, "Is it cold? What's the insulation like?"
It is so warm in here. So, so warm.
This is one of my favorite things about this place
after living in student accommodation
is that it doesn't get cold in the winter.
I can still sleep naked in the winter months here.
Amazing, not cold at all.
Nick asks, "Have you decided
"what you're doing next accommodation wise?"
So glad you asked, Nick.
So it's news time. I'm moving out.
So yeah, I'm moving out.
I'm moving to a small flat with just two of my friends,
and there's just gonna be three of us living there
and I'm so excited.
I'm gonna have windows in my bedroom.
The only thing is, is that I'm spending way more money on it
and for a lot less space.
Which means I'm gonna have to get rid of this bookshelf.
Like the books are all still coming with me.
I will find a place for them.
I am moving on the 14th of June,
which is just before I go to VidCon,
so I'll move, I'll have like a few days of settling in,
and then be like, bye.
But then once I get back, I'll probably have like
a big housewarming and it'll be great.
But I genuinely have loved living here so much,
and I couldn't have found a better place
to be my first home in London,
and it really does feel like that.
It does feel like a home.
Whilst we're on the topic of me moving to a smaller place,
and not being able to take all of my stuff with me,
I've got loads of these. What?
I still have boxes of merch
and there's not a lot of space at my new flat,
and the less I have to carry, the better.
So I'm going to be doing a sale on my merch store,
HannahWitten.bigcartel.com.
You'll be able to get 25% off everything in the store
from now, the day this video goes up, and the 13th of June,
the day before I move out.
So does that sound great?
So there's the "Do I Look Like a Slut" poster,
and then at the bottom, it says,
"There is no such thing as a slut."
And there's this Drunk Advice tote bags,
with the little images from Drunk Advice,
and then it says Drunk Advice on the back.
Yeah, there'll be a link in the description
to my store, where you can get these.
Buy as many as you like, you know,
I need to shift some of these,
so I have less to take with me to my new house.
Was that a great sales pitch? Yeah.
Does it make you wanna buy them
cause you know you'll be helping me?
Moving house is stressful. (yelp from outside)
Did you hear the housemate sneeze?
Could you hear that? Oh my God.
That was a loud sneeze.
Alright, that is it. Thank you so much for watching.
Please give the video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it,
and let me know in the comments your, like, dream home,
like your dream living situation, if money was not an issue.
And don't forget to subscribe
cause I make new videos every week.
See you soon, bye.
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