Minimum price for a decent property in London ...

[Francko]

Not exactly happening places are they, nor very central. Isn't Beckenham in Kent, anyway?

Yes, it's not that close. But so is Blackheath, Wimbledon or Putney where the smallest decent flat would cost you 500k. It's obviously true of all big cities that you have nicer and posher areas but in many other towns they are clearly separated. In London they are just next to each other, to the extent that one flat can cost 30% more just because it crosses the road and it falls into a posher postcode. Crazy I believe.

[DimPrawn]

...seems to be about £500K. That would be for a flat. For a modest house in a nice area, it's more like a million. How very depressing.

This is the sort of "modest" house £1m gets you where I live

http://www87.vebra.com/cgi-win/vebra...=1&prop=124907

You have to put up with the tiny 1.2 acre garden and make do with only an outdoor heated swimming pool.

Shocking

[sasguru]

This is the sort of "modest" house £1m gets you where I live

http://www87.vebra.com/cgi-win/vebra...=1&prop=124907

You have to put up with the tiny 1.2 acre garden and make do with only an outdoor heated swimming pool.

Shocking

Why have that when you can have this lovely 2-bed flat for the same price

http://www.foxtons.co.uk/property-for-sale-in-st-james's/myfr0092942

[Pondlife]

Is n't that true of other big cities around the world?

For example, Paris. Where the well-to-do all live in certain arondissements and wouldn't dream of living in others!

Best example of this is Manhatten;

Below 98th Street = upper east/west side
Above 104th Street = Ghetto area

Never understood why.

[DimPrawn]

So I can have flat for £1M with a kitchen the size of my downstairs toilet in Laaaaaaaandaaaaaaan, pay congestion charges and be stabbed when I go out or have this instead?

[Diestl]

Why the f**k would you want to live in London anyway, its overcrowded, expensive and unhealthy. Why not commute or work elsewhere.

[mcquiggd]

This is the sort of "modest" house £1m gets you where I live

http://www87.vebra.com/cgi-win/vebra...=1&prop=124907

You have to put up with the tiny 1.2 acre garden and make do with only an outdoor heated swimming pool.

Shocking

Wootton Bassett? You could buy all of Swindon with £1 million.... and use the change to knock it down....

[Francko]

Why the f**k would you want to live in London anyway, its overcrowded, expensive and unhealthy. Why not commute or work elsewhere.

Because houses outside are just as expensive, overcrowded and unhealthy, plus you spend more for transports and you lose most of your friends since you are tired of checking the clock for last train home and you stopped going out to London.

[AtW]

pay congestion charges and be stabbed

You are Mr Blair and I claim my £50.

[Francko]

So I can have flat for £1M with a kitchen the size of my downstairs toilet in Laaaaaaaandaaaaaaan, pay congestion charges and be stabbed when I go out or have this instead?

As long as you are willing to waste 4 hours everyday to commute. I'd rather spend a third of that, rent a room in London mon-thu and live in the weekend somewhere outside UK if I really wanted the luxury.

Also you better be married with a very sexy woman to live in those places or else your sexual life will have to be biased towards other species.