I've never understood why people pay so much money to live in studio flats in crap areas of a city. We live out in Kent and including a drive to the train station and buying the ticket can be in central London in 40 minutes. That gets us an £1100 mortgage payment on a 4 bed house surrounded by farmland. Sometimes when we meet friends who live in London for dinner it takes them longer to get to the restaurant than it does us.
The rest of the article seems quite on point, but that rent, I just can't quite put my finger on it.
There is no way you're getting a 2 bedroom for anywhere near that. It's not even in the right ballpark.
What you could afford for £1300 is a 1 bedroom, at a fair distance from central, thanks to the sharp drop in rent from coronavirus last year.
I'm certainly curious to know what he is renting. Either he's not living in London or I missed a second wave of rent drop from coronavirus.