We ditched our flat to live on an island by the Thames with no bridge – we have to use a boat but the rent is cheaper

A MONEY-SMART mates person revealed however they swapped their cramped London level for surviving connected a tiny land based by the Thames.

Sacha and Matt were sick of surviving successful a one-bedroom level successful cardinal London, and were near feeling wholly burned retired owed to astronomical rent costs.

The thrifty brace revealed that those closest to them warned them against the decision, arsenic the land they unrecorded connected does not person a span connecting it to the mainland - which means that they person to get connected a vessel to get to work.

However, the adventurous mates jumped astatine the accidental to commencement a new, unsocial mode of life - and haven't looked backmost since.

Sharing their unthinkable travel connected TikTok, Sacha said: ''Being 25, I deliberation I deed that age wherever astir of my friends were either having babies oregon moving to Australia - and we were acceptable to power it up.

''About 7 years of surviving successful cramped flatshares with nary greenery oregon idiosyncratic space, coupled with the skyrocketing rent prices, it near america feeling beauteous bored and fed up,'' Sacha told their 20k followers connected her page.

The couple, who stock the land with 20 different houses, added that whilst galore whitethorn presume specified surviving is ''more expensive'' that is really not the case.

As the tiny land does not person a bridge, ''the renting is cheaper'' - though this tin alteration from land to island.

Sacha explained: ''As getting a vessel to and from your location lone appeals to possibly a definite benignant of crowd.''

The one-bedroom bungalow the brace present proudly telephone their home has been equipped with ''full fibre broadband, electricity, gas and sewage systems each from the land to the mainland''.

The loved-up pair, who ''still person to wage council tax'', besides antecedently revealed that determination are immoderate challenges they face, specified arsenic the information that they lone person 1 vessel betwixt them.

This means that 1 of them has to driblet the different disconnected connected the mainland for work, and past transport the vessel backmost to the land again.

Their commute tin besides beryllium a conflict during atrocious weather, arsenic the stream tin get choppy, and the travel is often freezing, meaning that they person to wrapper up successful each of their layers.

"It's not your boring commute, that's for sure," Sacha chuckled.

The mates besides person to usage the vessel to instrumentality the bins out, with Sacha commenting, "the bin tally makes maine consciousness similar i'm preparing for an occurrence of Survivor."

Sacha revealed that it is besides astir intolerable for the duo to get deliveries to the land and added that the land is often flooded, meaning that it tin beryllium precise tricky for the mates to get around.

But contempt the challenges, Sacha said they ''loved'' their unsocial home.

''We earnestly wonderment wherefore much radical don't research alternate ways of living.''

'I would emotion this'

Unsurprisingly, the video has apt near galore radical intrigued, racking up implicit 400k views successful conscionable 2 days.

TikTok users flocked to the video's comments conception to stock their thoughts connected the couple's unsocial mode of life.

One wrote: ''Just wasn’t alert determination are islands successful London!! Bit huffy really I would emotion this.''

''I’ve watched excessively galore zombie films to know, you made a bully choice,'' different joked.

A 3rd wrote: ''Absolutely emotion this couldn’t deliberation of thing better, metropolis beingness but backstage surroundings.''

''Hehe emotion this!! I unrecorded connected Eel Pie island, land surviving is the best!!'' idiosyncratic other commented.

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