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External Storage

It's well known that the self-storage industry has had a bit of a boom in recent years - the things are everywhere, in London at least.  My assumption has been that the cost of property is such that in order to afford somewhere to live, people have to give up minor luxuries like storage space.  Also, with more and more people living in flats, I suppose attics aren't as standard a feature as they used to be.  So great big self storage facilities have sprung up all over the place.

I've taken a small corner of one such on as part of the process of moving out of my flat before being able to move stuff into the house (which we're going to get a bunch of stuff done to once we take it on and before we move in).  I was there this evening, putting a few extra things in my cage, and was struck, as I have been on both previous visits, by how busy it always is.  The parking bays are always full, and the steady stream of people in and out seems to continue at all hours.

It's seeing this, more than the sheer number of facilities around the place, that has really brought home to me the scale of the storage boom, and made me acutely aware of how lucky we are that we're able to move to somewhere that should have enough space for all our stuff.