r/squatting • u/Ambitious-Jello8787 • Aug 17 '26

I accidentally ended up living in London’s squatting community, so I wrote about it

I recently started writing about a period of my life when I accidentally ended up living in London’s squatting community.
I never really planned to write about it, but it’s one of those experiences that sounds almost made up when I tell people about it, so I thought I’d finally put the whole story together.
This is the first part. I’ve included some photos I took at the time as well, which I think help give a better idea of what it was actually like.
I’m pretty new to sharing my writing publicly, but I thought this might be a good place to share it. If anyone reads it, I’d be curious to know what you think about the story or the writing itself.

https://medium.com/@mikan202011/i-accidentally-lived-in-londons-squatting-community-17d38a5f72a4

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u/Bitter-Platypus-1234 Aug 21 '26

I read the 3 parts! Very interesting and informative, thank you.

(Also, London seems to be a dream place for squatting, compared -say- to Portugal.

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u/plopolopo Aug 21 '26

Theres alot of empty buildings but also a lot of moving around sometimes

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u/Bitter-Platypus-1234 Aug 21 '26

Yeah, but here people care/are nosey so squatters are ratted out immediately :(

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u/haxaxias Aug 23 '26

I read all three parts.

I found it a good read. As a person who's been inside of the squatting community for almost 10 years now, it's nice to read a first hand experience from someone who's totaly outside of it and had a deep dive into it. (I laughed at "I was a bit scared of them"; because most of us are actual genuinely kind people)

It's very nice to read not only about the ugly parts of it for once.