Owning your own home

@amey @6pt What’s the Corbett Estate like? Misses and I are looking for a fixer-upper but I’m trying to get over the mental hurdle of being ‘so far’ out, having lived in De Beauvoir/Canonbury for the last 8 years.

Shit mate dont bother

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@6pt describes it well. Cycling into town is obviously longer but much less stressful than anywhere in London in this radius IMO.

3 houses on market on our road. All are ‘done’ though.

Ours was a fixer upper. You are welcome for a coffee any time.

Bellingham, hmm. Doesn't have that victorian housing stock, but The Fellowship is a great asset and the waterlink way is an ace running loop, plus you're closer to Beckenham Place Park. Been a while now since the last stabbing.

Police chase / gun / machete incident a day or two back, so we have to reset the Bellingham clock. The Fellowship is sorting out a beer garden though; win some lose some.

We’re in a south-facing two-bed on Braidwood, have been for 7 years now. It was always fine, borderline great once we’d knocked it around a bit, but with a kid we’re feeling like we’ve finally hit our limit with the space (save for going up/back, which I’l leave for the next people to live there). If you can stretch to it I’d recommend trying to get a Dowanhill/Arngask/whatever 3-bedder (bay windows downstairs and up is the tell) as it’d do you for life, and has proper palace potential if you want to extend.

We’re out of the house while we have some work done for the next week or two, but would happily let you poke around after that. No coffee though.

Catford is definitely on the way up. It has the housing stock and is basically the only place left in London that is affordable.

No pubs on the Corbett Estate and dress it up all you like Catford is still Catford. It depressed me returning home when I had to drive through it and I didn't even live there.

I’m still trying to get my head around it. Thanks @amey @6pt ! To Dov’s point it is one of the few affordable places left in London. Looking at our budget, and what we would want over the next 5 years, Catford’s a bit of a no-brainier.

Have you considered Plumstead?
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it is one of the few affordable places left in London

I find this a bit odd because pound / square foot it's not far off everywhere else that sits just outside the south (and north) circular

Heading west it's cheaper than Forest Hill and Dulwich, heading east it's closer to town than Eltham and Woolwich. It's definitely the right point in some Venn diagrams.

Anyway, as a temporary Sidcup resident I'm currently enamoured with all the charms of full-on suburbia. The longer I spend away from Catford, the more its charms wane...

I grew up near Blythe Hill and wouldn’t want to move back (I know that’s a pretty common thing). It’s not far out by the crow flies but the trains take an age into town and driving and cycling must be a nightmare. Definitely looks like it’s on the up though , still mind blown catford mews is a indy cinema.

Been in Sidcup for 4 years now...

My 10k running loops are either Five Arches, Bexley woods, then follow the Shuttle all the way back to Lamorbey, adding in Waring for good measure or running round Scadbury. All woods and rivers. To a Catford resident this is basically like living in the countryside but with a Little Waitrose up the road 👌

the housing stock

I will end you

Blythe Hill

thats actually awful, someone I know just moved from there to corbett (Inchmerry road)

Sidcup

there is pub there with a sign in comic sans

That's Mottingham you chump, and it's finally succumbed to vacancy after years teetering on the edge.

That's Mottingham

same difference

no difference

Ftfy

My 10k running loops

What the heck is this?

It's where you put one foot in front of the other until you end up back where you started, hopefully with both legs still attached. It is this detail I'm struggling with.

Ah. The 10km dad run.

My 10k running loops

say what now?

Now Strava is down you have to humble brag somewhere.