Good areas in London?

[DimPrawn]

Cattle class is like £400 for a monthly season ticket to paddington. First class will be about £800. If you stay in Reading and you need to travel to Paddington daily, your life sucks. Period. Might as well take the slow train to Paddington which takes 55 minutes as opposed to the 25 mins on HST.

WHS.

Everyone looks like on that soul destroying journey. £800 a month you could be paying on a London property that will increase in value as the govt encourages more non dom types to buy London property tax free. You may as well get rich with them.

[sasguru]

If you stay in Reading and you need to travel to Paddington daily, your life sucks..

True. Reading is one of the dullest, crappiest towns close to London.

[redgiant]

True. Reading is one of the dullest, crappiest towns close to London.

And that train line into London has to be one of the most unreliable. Current clientco has its HQ in TVP and I dread going over on the train once a month - got stuck in Slough station for an hour due to signal failure a few weeks ago. Least you can get your money back if it's over an hour

I live in Zone 2 next to the river so my usual commute into Canary Wharf or the city is only around 20mins

[Ketchup]

I live in Chelmsford, my train into Liv street in 32 minutes and not a bad journey. trains run every 10-15 minutes. It's not a bad area. You can get a 4 bedroom detached with a decent garden and walking distance of the station for under £400k

[bobspud]

First class from Reading to London is usually pretty empty. And you get a muffin too.

Are you joking? I regularly used to complain about the plebs congregating in first class with only a standard ticket. The fast train in from Bath Spa is rammed with them. Same Problem on the way back, there are so many of these pesants hanging round the corridors that the buffet car cannot get through to serve me my evening drinks

seriously if you are wanting to come to the west then consider chippenham or Didcot Parkway, at least you will get a seat.

[doodab]

If you stay in Reading or you need to travel to Paddington daily, your life sucks.

WHS, almost.

[DodgyAgent]

Buckingham Palace is allright.

Its been bought by the Russians