Owning your own home

We moved to Hitchin (previously renting in Herne Hill, Brixton before that). We've been delighted.

Pros:

• Trains are very very good, far better than the St. Albans line in terms of reliability/seating, and they run until 1:30 at night (or two if you want to cab from Letchworth). Takes me 1 hour door-to-door to get to my office in Fleet St.
  
• Town is lovely and new, decent places are beginning to spring up. There's two good indie coffee places and a great tapas place. Only downside is the relatively few good non-chains pubs, although there are a couple I like.
  
• Access to countryside for riding, village pubs is great.
  
• Loads of lovely old Victorian housing stock.
  
  

Cons:

• Roughly £3700 for a season ticket, (train only)
  
• Just got rated #9 in fastest selling houses outside London
  
• Prices are going up.
  
• It is between Stevenage and Luton. These places are shit holes. You have to pass through them a lot.