No way you find a
nice place to live
in London for £600, especially not a place of your own. If anything, you
might find a room somewhere, but it's probably not going to be nice and it's likely not even going to be in London.
If you commute by long distance rail for at least an hour, an hour and a half maybe, to some small town way outside of London maybe you'll find something at that cost – but surely not in London proper.
My rents over the years in London where, per month, in order of when I lived there:
- apartment hotel studio in Limehouse: ~£2000-2500
- room in shared flat in Queensway: £1000
- 1-bed in Canary Wharf: ~£1650 (moved after a year because they wanted to back my rent by about 20%)
- studio in Angel: ~£1200
- basement studio in Highbury&Islington: ~£1350
The studio in Angel was unbelievably cheap for a brand new building in a nice neighborhood. I was the first tenant. It had one of those beds you flip down from the wall kind of thing. Sounds off putting but it was actually a really smart feature, made the place feel like a 1-bed.