Question about nice areas to live in Surrey/West London area

[realityhack]

Strange scurrilous beast that you are.

[Scrag Meister]

Woldingham

[OwlHoot]

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Oh and Lower Kingswood is lovely. Though you have to drive to the nearest train stations.

That was one of my suggestions too - Lived there for a while when I was a nipper.

[DimPrawn]

Woldingham

Wow, there's some nice places in and around there with 35 minute journey time to Victoria and big houses for less than £1M rather than £5M in other areas.

There must be a catch?

[OwlHoot]

Wow, there's some nice places in and around there with 35 minute journey time to Victoria and big houses for less than £1M rather than £5M in other areas.

There must be a catch?

Biggin Hill airport, about four miles north east of Woldingham, with the runway pointing straight at it?

Wouldn't bother me, but I dare say might give pause for thought to someone who could afford a £5m house.

edit: Removed bit about Woldingham possibly having traffic pinch points, as a close up view shows several roads from it.

[Fred Bloggs]

It didn't come off in the end, but I was looking at a reasonable 2 bed flat in Iver, Bucks a few weeks ago. Within walking distance of Iver station which (IIRC) goes into Paddington. I thought it was a fair deal at the price and I thought Iver seemed OK-ish but I am not entirely sure about it. I didn't buy it in the end, I chickened out. Living in two parts of the UK at once just ended up seeming like hard work.

[doodab]

Wow, there's some nice places in and around there with 35 minute journey time to Victoria and big houses for less than £1M rather than £5M in other areas.

There must be a catch?

The area itself isn't unpleasant, neither are some of the others around there e.g. Whyteleafe or Caterham, but your local "big town" is Croydon, which is a total tulip hole.

The trains are only every half an hour, and to get into the city or canary wharf takes another 20+ minutes on the tube, which makes the total journey time closer to an hour. Caterham has trains every 15 minutes into London Bridge, but they take a bit longer.

[PRC1964]

Wow, there's some nice places in and around there with 35 minute journey time to Victoria and big houses for less than £1M rather than £5M in other areas.

There must be a catch?

I'm not sure if it counts as a catch or as a bonus, but Woldingham School has a large number of posh rich girls.

[SueEllen]

That was one of my suggestions too - Lived there for a while when I was a nipper.

I know it was your suggestion.

But he won't be able to afford to live there.

[sasguru]

I think this thread shows what happens when dreams come up against cold hard reality and you discover you are very poor compared to them rich southerners after all.