Owning your own home

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beseku in reply to @hugo7
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.

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AirTime in reply to @beseku

oi whats wrong with stevenage thats where i'm from.

people are slowly realising that there is a fast train straight into kings cross from stevenage which takes 20mins. if you work centrally you can get to work door to door in under an hour. agreed its not the most scenic of towns but once you see past that there are nice areas to buy. people are just too short sighted.

i was riding through london from the wharf and got chatting to a bloke who was cycle commuting from kings cross to the wharf and lives in hitchin....why can't you do that as well then? the train had loads of bromptons on it when i did the commute.

i had the option of moving out but didn't want to commute at all. riding my bike to work is too important. plus i like living in london, have to be at my desk early blah blah....so chose walthamstow as the best option for me.

have the best commute into the wharf (i reckon), has decent housing stock, great community where i live, great transport links and all the essentials for shops, pubs, cinema etc. just lacking in the good schools department. i think it will be better in years to come but i don't have to worry about that for at least 5 years. by that point i'm sure things would have improved.

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