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Right...starting to look seriously about getting out of the rent cycle and buying something of our own - don't need/want to be investing too much and we're not overly fussed which direction out of London it is, a simple two-bed place that means we can get in and out of Westminster without spending a silly proportion of our monies each month on mortgage/travel combined is probably the ideal for now.
Having had a look along the East Coast mainline (grew up in Cambridgeshire) it's incredible just how much the season tickets cost...£7.5k a year each for the privilege of getting to and from Peterborough?!
In and around Dartford comes up as reasonably affordable, but does mean living in and around Dartford...and the train into London Victoria isn't necessarily the quickest at c.50mins.
Any other suggestions as to places that'd be worth looking at?