Can you truly claim to be a Londoner if you didn’t spend your early adulthood in the capital living in grotty digs with an evolving cast of oddballs and dishwashing shirkers? Immortalised in everything from The Young Ones to This Life, Spaced, Peep Show and Crashing, it’s a lifestyle approved by none other than Margot Robbie, who often speaks of her time in a Clapham house share as one of the happiest in her life. At best this scenario fixed you up with a crowd of like-minded friends for life. At worst, you would line up a series of hilarious anecdotes to make you seem edgy during a staid middle age.
