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I have given up hope trying to remain in the same areas - Peckham / Camberwell / Brixton etc... I would like South London somewhere but then work is in Kings X, so I am easy to an extend. A lot of my colleagues communte into St Pancras / Euston which takes them like 2 hours door to door easily and like £5000+ a year... that would probably mean bye bye to my daily cycling... so I have set myself a target of about 13 miles radius to Kings X, which would mean about an hour cycle, but even this is somwhat difficult with the budget I have.
Just got a call from an agent today actually, it was what looks to be a 2-bed ex council right bang in the middle of a giant roundabout in Croydon for £225,000...
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I do miss cycling to work. But if you're looking for connections to Kings Cross, then have a look on the Thameslink line heading north.
We chose Borehamwood because it's still on the Oyster card, and travel is c£2-3k pa as opposed to the £5k+.
From my calculations Mill Hill would have been possible on a bike (and closer to London). But I just didn't like the areas in our budget / with our wish list. The nice bits are obviously nice.
I doubt prices will keep pace with London especially as there seems to be a fair bit of building. Hopefully they won't be totally uncorrelated though... not that we plan on selling, its just that it would be good to get the LTV in a good place when we come to remortgage.
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Hello.
When we were looking to move, I did something very similar. We still have the map on the wall. With pins.
I drew a circle from where I work with the boundary on where I lived and then another one to where I could feasibly commute. And went from there.It's a solid plan.
hugo7
Chalfie
Depends what you want and where you want it. If you want to live in the middle of Soho, then you'll have to accept a shoebox. If you want to live slightly further out, then you'll get something marginally bigger. Outside the M25 there are some real bargains to be had, but you've got a commute on your hands with ticket prices as big as Liberia's defecit.