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If you can afford a million, spend a million and stop looking in "up and coming" and "edgy" neighbourhoods and move somewhere less crimey that's already finished. North of the river.
Somewhere where you don't necessarily need a garage because it's safe to leave nice cars on the street.
random pick: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-53755428.html
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That's a very random pick.
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I've lived in Islington, Highbury, Marylebone, Finsbury Park, Stepney Green and Clerkenwell, and can confirm that North/East London is filthy, crime ridden and full of cunts.
I'd rather not live there when South London is available instead, without the North London street furniture of stumbling crack-heads, moped-enabled snatch-muggers, acid-throwing youth's and the general filth and decrepitude.
I really like the place that Tenderloin posted (and which has been posted before), but it's in the middle of nowhere, relatively speaking.
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Meh, crime rate is much higher in Swiss Cottage and Hampstead than the nice parts in Zone 3 South London.
Swiss Cottage has the same count of reported crimes as Lewisham Central. I know that Tottenham and Hackney probably really skew the stats for North of the river, but it is meritless to suggest that it is lower crime than South of the river.
Howard
Dammit
Stonehedge
@Chalfie Not that much. We've probably got around 300,000 equity in the current place, I could get a mortgage for 6-700k to go with that, but the repayments would be terrifying, so I'd rather not go to the top of the range.